5 french vanilla elegant Recipes

thick slices day old italian, french or egg bread- do not use regular store bought white bread, very really ripe banana, flour, vanilla, sugar, milk or as needed, oil to fry, powdered sugar ( optional )

cubed croissants or french bread, raisins, eggs, half-and-half cream, brown sugar, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, grated orange peel, brown sugar, butter, heavy whipping cream, vanilla extract, cream , optional

unsliced egg bread , such as challah or 1 loaf other firm bread, pitted tart red cherries, drained (canned or frozen ), cream cheese or 6 oz mascarpone cheese, softened, whipping cream, powdered sugar (optional), beaten eggs, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract, butter or 1 -2 tbsp margarine, maple syrup, clover honey, chopped pecans, toasted, ground cinnamon, butter (optional) or 2 tbsp margarine (optional), grains salt (a few), apple, sliced into thin wedges (optional), mint (optional)