This easy Strawberry Toast is a quick breakfast made with only 3 ingredients: your choice of bread, cream cheese and warm fresh strawberries. I know it's going to be a good day when I can get my kids to eat their fruit before the sun even begins to shine. You'll rarely catch them eating fresh fruit plain, but as part of another recipe? They'll usually eat it!
Apparently they don't like strawberries unless they're blended into a strawberry mango smoothie, baked into a strawberry cupcake or turned into a delicious oatmeal breakfast. And most recently, strawberries atop bread slices layered with cream cheese. I'm glad they love this because it's a really simple and quick breakfast that gives them a healthy dose of fruit to start off the day.
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Ingredients
My strawberry toast recipe uses only 3 ingredients:
- Fresh strawberries: remove the stems and leaves and slice in half or in quarters.
- Cream cheese: a plain block of cream cheese or whipped cream cheese. For A flavored cream cheese makes a good variation, especially strawberry cream cheese!
- Bread: you can use any type of bread for this recipe. Good choices are sourdough, homemade rye bread, pumpernickel, homemade white bread or homemade whole wheat bread, or other sandwich style breads.
Step-By-Step Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350° Fahrenheit. Add the chopped strawberries to a small baking dish or small bowl that's oven safe. Place in the preheated oven for 7-10 minutes, or until strawberries soften and release juices. Remove from the oven.
- While the strawberries are baking, toast the bread slices to your desired toast level. Divide the cream cheese in half and spread on the toasted bread.
- Divide the cooked strawberries in half and layer on top of the cream cheese toast. Drizzle with strawberry juice from the cooked strawberries and serve while warm.
Enjoy!
How To Store
Because the strawberry mixture only lasts a day after being made, it's best to enjoy strawberry cream cheese toast the same day. If you have leftover strawberry mixture, store it in an airtight container in the fridge and use the next morning.
What Else Can I Put On Strawberry Toast?
Peanut butter, almond butter, Nutella, avocado and balsamic sauce are great variations for the base layer of strawberry toast. Sprinkle some sugar on top of the strawberries for added sweetness or top with fresh herbs like mint or basil.
Recipe
Strawberry Toast
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh strawberries leaves removed and sliced in quarters
- 1 oz cream cheese
- 2 slices bread *see notes
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Add the strawberries to a small baking dish and place in the preheated oven for 7-10 minutes, until strawberries soften and release juices. Remove from the oven.
- While the strawberries are baking, toast the bread slices to your desired toast level. Divide the cream cheese in half and spread on the toasted bread.
- Divide the cooked strawberries in half and layer on top of the cream cheese toast. Drizzle with the strawberry juice from the cooked strawberries and serve while strawberries are still warm.
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