Best French Toasted Breakfast Panini

This super easy recipe makes a delicious breakfast sandwich filled with cream cheese and favorite preserves and dusted outside with sweet powdered sugar. These are pretty and special enough for guests.

Ingredients:

• 2 slices French bread, sliced thickly (about 1 inch)
• Cream cheese (roughly 3 tablespoons)
• Preserves or jam (roughly 3 tablespoons of favorite flavor)
• Butter to coat outside of sandwich
• Powdered sugar for dusting

Directions:

1. Lay out French bread slices
2. Mix cream cheese and preserves (try apricot, strawberry, blueberry or orange marmalade)
3. Spread cream cheese/preserve mixture on one side of a slice of bread and then top with remaining slice (sandwiching mixture)
4. Spread the outside of bread with butter
5. Place in grill
6. Grill as desired (see manufacturer’s instructions)
7. Remove sandwich from grill and immediately dust with powdered sugar

Variations:

Rather than preserves, add cinnamon and raisins to cream cheese.

Fill with cream cheese only. Eat as French toast, topped with syrup.