Lemon and cheesecake inside a crispy french toast roll is a delicious way to change up breakfast. These Lemon Cheesecake French Toast Roll Ups are easy to make, but they look so fancy and pretty. Perfect for any brunch or breakfast parties you may be hosting.
One of my favorite breakfast meals is french toast, but I do not make it that often. Me thinks that needs to change. Warm toasty bread drizzled with syrup should be a part of our breakfasts more often.
Well, maybe part of our breakfast for dinner, since I'm not really a morning person. Something tells me frying bread in the early morning hours might result in someone getting hurt or breakfast being burned. Or both.
Now I know what you are thinking. Ok, so when did you make these French Toast Roll Ups we see in front of us?
I got all breakfast-y on a Saturday morning earlier this month. And by morning I really mean late morning...ok, fine it was closer to lunch time. French toast for lunch is totally acceptable on the weekends, right?
When I got the urge to make french toast, I had a lightbulb moment to fill them before frying them in butter. My first thought was cheesecake because, well, duh cheesecake. It goes with everything. Then I saw a jar of lemon curd in the cupboard, and these Lemon Cheesecake French Toast Roll Ups were born. And bonus, it only uses half a jar of lemon curd, so get your spoon ready to eat the rest. Oh, wait. Maybe I'm the only that does that?
These really are easy to make, but I have a few tips for you to remember as you give them a go in your kitchen. I was really going to take a few step by step pictures, but I would have to have another set of hands to do that. So I might need to have a baking assistant on days like this.
1. Cut off the crusts on all the bread slices. Then roll each piece of bread flat with a rolling pin.
2. Mix together the cream cheese and lemon curd and spoon a little bit along the short end of a slice of bread. Carefully roll it up and set aside. Repeat 15 times.
3. Dip 3-4 at a time in the egg mixture and place in a pan with 1 Tablespoon melted butter. Keep the rest of the butter right there to add to the pan as needed. Make sure you keep rolling them around gently to get all the sides browned.
4. As soon as they are browned and done, roll them in the cinnamon sugar mixture. Serve immediately. These are best eaten fresh from the skillet!
Recipe
Lemon Cheesecake French Toast Roll Ups
French toast filled with lemon cheesecake and rolled in cinnamon sugar makes an extra special breakfast.
Ingredients
- 16 slices of bread
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup milk
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
- ½ cup lemon curd
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 Tablespoon cinnamon
- 8 Tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Trim the crust from the bread slices. Use a rolling pin to roll them flat.
- Whisk together the eggs and milk.
- Beat the cream cheese and 2 Tablespoons sugar until creamy. Stir in the lemon curd.
- Stir together the remaining sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
- Spread a teaspoon of filling on the end of each slice of bread. Roll up carefully.
- Dip the rolls in the egg mixture. Fry in a pan with butter until cooked and browned on each side.
- Remove and roll in the cinnamon sugar mixture while warm. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 224Total Fat: 11gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 56mgSodium: 245mgCarbohydrates: 27gFiber: 1gSugar: 13gProtein: 4g
Here are a few more lemon recipes we like for breakfast:
Kim
Hi. I would love to make these for a breakfast staff meeting, so I would need to make them the day before. You mentioned serving them right out of the skillet....have you ever had them the day after or do they get soggy? Thanks.
Jocelyn
I definitely do not recommend eating these as leftovers. They really are best served hot and fresh.
Kim
Thanks
Lyuba@willcookforsmiles
This sounds amazing! I wish breakfast would always be this tasty 🙂
Polly
What lemon curd? Is it just lemon pie filling ? If not where do you get what is it. That's what I think it might be . Thanks
Jocelyn
Hi, Polly. Lemon curd is actually different from lemon pie filling. It is thicker...think lemon meringue pie. Haha! I guess that means it is like pie filling, but different. I have seen the lemon curd in the baking aisle at my grocery store and by the jams and jellies in Walmart.
Tracy
So.........imagine my horror to find that my jar of lemon curd was a year (!) past it's expiry date. I was not to be bested by that though. I whipped out a jar of apple butter instead and these tasty rolls of french toasty goodness were amazing!!!!! What a great recipe this is as you can really custom it to your liking or what's in your pantry. 😀