Matt baked a test batch of our July Red, White and Blue Swirl bread yesterday and brought me home a tiny loaf. With raspberries, blueberries and cream cheese, this was INCREDIBLE!! Best bread we’ve debuted in months!!
So I turned in into the most delicious french toast! Soaked in 1 egg and a splash of milk for 30 seconds per side and seared in a nice hot pan
Then topped with almond butter, berries and coconut
And served with an Earl Grey tea-ccino with milk frothed in my IKEA frother. I absolutely love Earl Grey – why I don’t I just buy a box!?
Can’t wait to make this again!
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That looks AMAZING! Hope you and baby are doing well!
That is by far one of my favorite GH breads! So tasty! Have a wonderful Tuesday.
That looks scrumptious! I love any cheese swirled into bread, and one of my favorite ways to do french toast it to stuff it with cinnamon cream cheese. Basically, you ate my dream breakfast.
Ahh, that bread sounds amazing, and your French toast looks incredible! I wonder if our local Great Harvest will have that flavor… I’ll be looking for it. And I’d love to make that French toast for my family!
Um….WOW! I’m drooling!
Mmmm Loveeee sweet fruit filled breads!!!
Wow, cream cheese IN the bread? Now that is innovation! Have a great day Kath!
That bread looks delicious!
I sure hope you will be selling that festive bread for the 4th of July!
this bread sounds amazing! and making in to french toast?!?! even better!
Looks delicious! I can’t wait to try that new bread, and to take some to the beach for my family’s 4th of July vacation!!
THAT BREAD!!!! Oh goodness it sounds Ahhh-mazing!
Did you get to the try the new bread on its own too, or just in the form of French Toast? Love sweet breads!
Had a bite plain first
Yummy! I’ve already had breakfast, but now you’re making me want it again!
Looks delicious — can’t wait to have a kitchen that’s not full of moving boxes so I can make something like that!
The bread looks incredible. Matt should start his own blog and share his creative recipes with us (especially for those who are not fortunate enough to live close to your bakery!)
He can’t share because they’re all company secret : )
That bread really does look and sound amazing!! Do you ship? Haha. Might have to try to recreate it!
4th of July sure came early…YUM!
Oh, I bet that was amazing French toast! YUM! I love summer produce! Have a great day Kath!
Wow, looks amazing!! Wish I could have a loaf of that bread… And Kath, what type of coconut do you use?
Plain unsweet – I don’t like it!! I use coconut but the teaspoon, so I’m going back to sweetened when this is gone
Ah, that’s what I have as well; I’m regretting the desicion for less indulgent coconut for as much as I use it. Also, just wanted to say “hi!” while I’m here; I quietly read your blog every day but I thank you for being such an inspiration
Hi!!
Can you really taste such a small amount of coconut sprinkled on your food? I love coconut and I know I’d want a mound of it!
Not really – it’s more for decoration
Ah ok.
Gotta love GH for having so many tasty sweet and savory varieties and for being so multi-purpose! It works great for toasted sandwiches and french toast, so many store bought breads just turn to mush. We sampled the blueberry cream cheese last week and can’t wait for the red, white and blue which I know I used for french toast last year. It’s hard to believe it’s almost July!
your french toast looks delicious, how lucky you are to be married to a baker! Hope you have a great day, Kath!
A bread with a combo of raspberries, blueberries & especially yummy cream cheese is my kind of bread! I love, love, love cream cheese!!! Is that Matt’s creation, or a recipe from the bread bank?
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It’s a GH favorite
Wow! What a breakfast! Looks devine!
YUM! I am SO hoping my GH has this so I can copy your breakfast!
That looks fantastic, I’m going to have to try that, I finished off our raspberries this morning though so I’m going to have to sub in strawberries! And French toasting it makes it even better I’m sure!
That sounds so good! and the bead is so beautiful with that swirl! love it!
That bread looks amazing! Filled with my favourite berries. I’m gonna have to make a trip down south sometime to visit a Great Harvest. For some reason I always think French toast is really time consuming so I never make it–unless it’s for a special occasion. Oh and Earl Grey is my fave type of tea. When I was younger I absolutely could not stand it and now I can’t imagine living without the five different varieties I currently have on rotation: decaf EG, vanilla EG, green tea EG, dark chocolate EG and regular. It’s like an addiction!
Oh my goodness! I just finished eating a delicious bowl of oats, but now I’m jealous that I didn’t eat your breakfast. That looks freaking amazing!
Yumm! This looks great! I would have never thought to try making french toast with that bread but it looks delicious (and I’m sure it tasted delicious too). I love that you topped it with almond butter… you’re turning me into a HUGE almond butter fan! Great recipe, thank you so much for sharing!
I wish you could share the recipes with us!
Wow, that looks amazing! I really need to eat French toast more often; if I had bread like that in my house, I definitely would.
That bread looks/sounds insanely tasty!
Oh wow!!! That sounds incredible!
Omg I really need to get myself a milk frother. I think it would add so much to my teas! Love the look of the bread, how can I persuade Great Harvest to open a location in Canada? hahahaha I’d probs have to open one myself!
Have you guys made the cranberry almond oatmeal GHBC recipe… I’m obsessed!
My Great Harvest makes the Red White and Blue Swirl w/ brown sugar, butter, and white chocolate chips. Oh. My. God.
Yup!
Wow, this looks delicious and perfect for french toast. French toast has got to be one of my favorite breakfasts ever, but I rarely make it with regular bread let alone with awesome bread, but I’m definitely feeling inspired. Maybe this weekend
Wish we had a GH in Richmond!!
I know two different people who are trying to open one there! I bet you’ll have one within a year or so
Yay! That’s exactly what I was hoping you’d say
With everything we have in Short Pump, it is certainly something we’re missing!
The closest one to me is 2 hours away in another province!
That bread sounds delicious!! Do all Great Harvests carry it??
There really isn’t any bread that ALL Great Harvests have since everything is owner choice, but many do have this one
Looks so delicious! I haven’t made french toast in a while, I usually just make pancakes or waffles if I want something sweet, but I keep forgetting about french toast.
French toast sounds SOOOOO good. I haven’t had that in FOREVER. Will have to hit that up this weekend.
Oh man! That looks amazing!! I love french toast!!!
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I have tried that before!
Matt’s bread sounds amazing!! I bet it made the best french toast!! It looks great topped with almond butter!!!
Kath, I recently picked up an Ikea frother and used it this morning for the first time. How much milk do you froth at a time? I used ~1/4c skim milk, and it didn’t get very frothy. I’m also wondering if the lack of fat contributed to its lack of frothiness… hmm.
About 1/4 a cup – but you do want some fat!! I use 2% milk, so mine froths nicely. I know places like Starbucks can get skim to froth, but I haven’t had much luck
I get my skim milk to froth by heating it first in the microwave for about 15 seconds.
I’m eating sardines right now, for the first time ever. Mostly because you said they aren’t bad
But also because we are moving in a month and have like 5 tins of them that I don’t want to move. Luckily, you were right and they aren’t bad. They taste like a slightly fishier tuna!
Woo hoo!
You are such an ARTIST with your food and photography! Maybe it’s because I am an artist myself (painter and photographer) but I just can’t seem to get over how beautiful your photos always look!
Thank you : )
What brand of almond butter do you use?
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Oh man; I want to jump through the screen and gobble that bread! Maybe I should go feed myself some lunch…
LOL I licked the screen….
that bread looks incredible!!! I’ll have to stop by one of your locations around Boston to get some of that for the 4th. Soooo yummy!
That looks wonderful!
I have been wondering, are you out of chia seeds? I haven’t seen you use them in ages. YOu are the reason I love them so!
I think I used them last week? I always put them in oats and overnight oats
Cream cheese baked into bread?? Is there anything better?!
Oh.my.god. My cousin gave me a loaf of the Blueberry Cream Cheese Swirl bread from the Greenville (SC) GH and I have never tasted such amazing bread-y goodness like that. Yours looks even better. YAY BREAD!
Wow I may just have to track down a Great Harvest for that bread. It sounds A-mazing! Earl Grey is my favorite too. I just recently bought a big box of it and now I find I rarely feel like it. =(
One of my absolute favorite french toasts! Yes, yes, yes!
We have it often.
why I don’t I just buy a box…good question.
A Greatest Harvest is opening in my area! I’m not sure when, but they just put a sign up. I’m excited to finally try all the delicious things you show on your blog!
Yum, I bought a loaf of the red, white and blue last year around July 4th weekend and it was one of the best breads I’ve had…pretty sure I finished the loaf solo! I’m so glad you posted this to remind me to be on the lookout for it!!
oh man this looks SO good!!! I need to do french toast soon, good reminder
Cute tea cup! Where’s it from?
It was an OpenSky sale from Hues + Brews
That bread looks DIVINE!
That bread looks So good! You are a very creative bunch there at the bakery!
YUM! I love french toast. I had the idea to make some with an english muffin the other day and I found myself wondering why I hadn’t done that sooner. SO good!
There is no Great Harvest near my hometown, so my friend & I are literally counting down the days until we get back to college in August and can hit up the local Great Harvest there. We’ve already made a plan to go together right after we unpack our things
That is so cool that you and Matt can still be creative at the bakery. I didn’t realize you were aloud to create your own recipes when you own a franchise. Send me some?
Yep, it’s really more of a co-op of owners than a traditional franchise – we can do whatever we want!
Berries + cream cheese is such a winning combination. Wish there was a GH closer to me!