Baked French Toast. This was my first try at a baked French toast, and it was YUMMY! As with most recipes, I scaled it down for my small family. I halved the recipe, added an extra egg and a little extra splash of milk, used whole grain bread (crusts on, cut into large cubes), and tossed the bread in the egg-milk mixture, rather than pouring it over.
The great thing about baked French toast is that you can make it on the spot and bake it right away…OR assemble it the night before and let it sit and get even more luscious in the fridge overnight. You can leave it plain like this, or you can mix blueberries or other fruit in with all the bread. French toast is a favorite comfort food for both lazy Saturday mornings and celebratory brunches. You can have Baked French Toast using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Baked French Toast
- It's 8 slices of bread.
- Prepare of Custard.
- Prepare 2 of eggs.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
- You need 125 ml of plain yoghurt or buttermilk.
- You need 100 ml of milk.
- You need 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder.
- It's of Raspberry filling.
- It's 1 pack of raspberries.
- It's 2 tablespoons of sugar.
- It's 5 tablespoons of water.
- It's of Juice of ½ a lemon or lime.
But before you pull out your skillet, try taking a casserole approach to French toast. If you're like most of us, you cherish sleeping in on Saturdays and waking up just in time to roll out of bed and do nothing. For the French toast: Grease the baking pan with butter. Tear the bread into chunks, or cut into cubes, and evenly distribute in the pan.
Baked French Toast instructions
- Prepare custard by whisking eggs, milk, plain yoghurt, vanilla essence and cinnamon powder into a bowl..
- Dip your bread in the custard on both sides and make sure bread is fully coated. Drip excess custard and place them in a baking dish..
- Pour the excess custard into the baking dish and refrigerate for 1hr for the bread to absorb the custard and flavours (it's like marinating)..
- Preheat oven to 180°C for 20 minutes. Spray your oven tray with oil and lay the bread leaving space between them so that they don't stick together. Sprinkle a little oil on the upper side as well..
- Bake for 8 minutes and flip for the other side to cook through. Bake for an additional 6 minutes..
- Remove from the oven and serve with raspberry filling on top (check previous post for recipe) and garnish with extra raspberries and blueberries..
Crack the eggs in a big bowl. With this French toast casserole, you skip the hassle of standing by the stove and pan-frying each individual slice of French toast. Instead, you just throw everything into a dish and let the oven do the work! You can even assemble the casserole the night before and bake it the next morning. Baked French toast with apples and caramel sauce.