Friday, August 23, 2013

Triple Berry Baked French Toast

If you want an easy, but elegant dish to serve for breakfast or brunch, try this baked french toast recipe. I used frozen berries and made it the night before which made it even simpler. Please note that I almost always use skim milk and I save the ends of bread loaves, freeze them until I have enough to make this recipe!
(No good photos I'm afraid, these are just from my iPhone!)

Triple Berry Baked French Toast
(made in a 13x9 pan)

Butter for greasing the pan
6 eggs
3 C milk
3/4 C maple syrup
2 tsp cinnamon + 1 Tbsp for later
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
Zest of 1 lemon
Day old or left over ends of bread cut into cubes (maybe half a loaf?)
2 C fresh or frozen berries (raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries)
6 Tbsp sugar


DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter the 9x13 pan and set aside.

2. In a large bowl, whisk eggs until frothy. Add milk, maple syrup, cinnamon, salt and lemon zest. Add bread cubes until fully coated. Stir in frozen berries and pour into prepared pan.

3. In a small bowl mix sugar and 1 Tbsp of cinnamon, sprinkle on top.

4. You can bake this right away, or refrigerate overnight. Bake for 40-45 minutes.

5. Drizzle with extra maple syrup when serving.

Adapted from Food Network's Giada De Laurentiis' recipe.

Thanks to all the bloggers who emailed me or left a comment about wanting this recipe. Enjoy!

5 comments:

Mindy said...

Yum. Sounds delicious!

Mama Up! said...

This sounds amazing! I'm guessing leaving it overnight makes it even better because the flavors have a chance to meld - and maybe it gets a little bread pudding-y!

AiringMyLaundry said...

This looks fantastic. Yum!

Suzanne said...

It was very good...

Suzanne said...

Christa, thanks for dropping by. Yes, it can be more like a bread pudding depending on the ratio of bread to milk. I marinate a lot of stuff, so it was natural to let it soak overnight. :)

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