Banana Stuffed French Toast, Ultimate-Style
- 1/4 cup pancake mix
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 12 eggs
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 4 ripe bananas, sliced
- 1 large (1 1/2 to 2-pound) loaf unsliced French bread
- About 2 cups crushed crunchy corn cereal (recommended: Corn Flakes)
- About 12 tablespoons butter
- In a large bowl, combine the pancake mix with enough water to make a thin batter.
- Add nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, sugar and eggs.
- Whisk together until smooth, about 3 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, mix together walnuts, brown sugar, and banana slices.
- Slice the ends off the French bread.
- Starting at 1 end, measure about a half inch down the loaf and slice the bread 3/4 of the way through.
- Measure about another half inch, and slice cleanly through the bread.
- You should have a 1-inch slice of bread with a cut down the middle.
- Repeat this process until the bread is all sliced up.
- Take a piece of the cut French bread and stuff a few tablespoons of the banana mixture into the slit in the middle.
- Add a good amount, but do not overstuff so that the mixture won't stay in the center.
- Repeat until all the slices are stuffed.
- Preheat a skillet or flat-top grill over medium-high heat.
- When the pan is hot, coat it with 2 tablespoons of butter.
- Pour the crushed-up cornflakes onto a plate.
- Take a slice of stuffed bread and dip it into the egg mixture, coating both sides liberally.
- Then press the bread into the cornflakes and flip it to coat both sides.
- Place the bread on the grill or skillet and cook until golden brown, about 3 minutes per side.
- Flip the toast over and cook the other side.
- Repeat the coating and cooking process for each slice of bread, and add more butter to the grill or skillet as necessary, about 2 tablespoons of butter per slice.
pancake mix, ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon, vanilla, sugar, eggs, walnuts, brown sugar, bananas, bread, crunchy corn cereal, butter
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/banana-stuffed-french-toast-ultimate-style-recipe.html (may not work)