Recipe: Baked French Toast

Recipe: Baked French Toast

Prep Time: 15 Minutes  |  Cook Time: 1 Hour  |  Difficulty: Easy  |  Servings: 12

 

Ingredients

• FRENCH TOAST
• 1 loaf Crusty Sourdough Or French Bread
• 8 whole Eggs
• 2 cups Whole Milk
• ½ cups Whipping (heavy) Cream
• ¾ cups Sugar
• 2 Tablespoons Vanilla Extract
• Topping
• ½ cups All-purpose Flour
• ½ cups Firmly Packed Brown Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoons Salt
• 1 stick Cold Butter, Cut Into Pieces
• Fresh Fruit (optional)

Preparation Instructions

Grease 9 x 13-inch baking pan with butter. Tear bread into chunks (or cut into cubes) and evenly distribute in the pan.
Mix together eggs, milk, cream, sugar, and vanilla. Pour evenly over bread. Cover tightly and store in the fridge several hours or overnight.
In a separate bowl, mix flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Add nutmeg if desired. Add butter pieces and but into the dry mixture until mixture resembles fine pebbles. Store in a Ziploc in the fridge.
When you’re ready to bake the casserole, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove casserole from oven and sprinkle crumb mixture over the top. (If you’re using fruit, sprinkle on before the crumb mixture.) Bake for 45 minutes for a softer, more bread pudding texture. Bake 1 hour or more for a firmer, less liquid texture.
Scoop out individual portions. Top with butter and drizzle with maple syrup.

Puffy Oven Pancake

Puffy Oven Pancake

1 Large Apple

2 tablespoons butter or margarine

2 eggs

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup milk

1 TBSP brown sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

cinnamon & sugar to taste

1. Heat oven to 400°F. Peel and thinly slice apple (If the apple isn’t very tart, I usually add a little bit of lemon juice.)

2. In 9-inch glass pie plate, melt butter and swirl around pie plate to make sure it’s all covered. Add Apple to bottom of pie plate. Sprinkle with cinnamon & sugar or brown sugar (I just lightly cover the apple area with both).

3. In medium bowl, beat eggs slightly with wire whisk. Beat in flour, milk, sugar and salt just until mixed (Don’t overbeat). Pour batter over apples into pie plate.

4. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until puffy and golden brown. Sprinkle with powdered sugar (optional). I enjoy it with homemade berry syrup–a personal fav!

Broiled Grapefruit with Brown Sugar and Cinnamon

Broiled Grapefruit with Brown Sugar and Cinnamon

Ingredients:

Grapefruits

Brown Sugar

Cinnamon

Butter or Margarine

Directions:

Half each Grapefruit

Spread Margarine or Butter on top (optional)

Sprinkle each half with Brown Sugar (approx 1 Tablespoon)

Sprinkle Cinnamon on top of Brown Sugar (approx 1 Teaspoon)

Bake 350 for 4 minutes

Broil for 2 minutes until tops bubble

Let cool for a few minutes

Doughnuts- with glaze!

Easy Homemade Doughnuts

from The Newlywed Diaries by Jennifer

For these doughnuts you will need: a can of biscuits (find them with crescent rolls at the grocery store), milk, confectioner's sugar, vanilla and shortening (or whatever you want to fry them in -- did I mention they are fried?!).

First, heat the oil over medium-high. If you have candy thermometer, you want it to be at about 350 degrees. I don't and just use the doughnut holes as a gauge (more on that later).

Separate the biscuits and -- here's where it gets technical -- use whatever you can find to cut a hole out of the middle. If you have small cookie cutter, you are set. I used an empty (and clean) Pelligrino bottle (though it was kind of hard to get the holes out). My mom uses an old prescription bottle. What ever you use, you want the holes to be about the size of a quarter so they don't completely close when cooking. You can stretch them a little if you need to.

If you aren't measuring your oil temperature, fry a couple of the cut out holes first. They should brown evenly and slowly and not create a lot of grease "pop" when you drop them in. Add the doughnuts in batches. They cook very quickly -- about a minute on the first side, and a little less on the second. Unless your oil is too hot, the inside should be cooked through. Take them out with a slotted spoon and place them on a paper-towel lined plate.

The icing is very simple. I don't measure and do it by feel, but you really can't mess it up. Take a cereal bowl-full of confectioner's sugar and add milk, about a tablespoon at a time, and whisk until it is slightly stiff. You want it to be loose enough to be able to cover the doughnuts, but thick enough to stick (again you can test with the holes). Add a splash of vanilla if you like. Drop the doughnuts in, cover with icing, then drain on a cooling rack. If you'd like a tangy, citrusy icing, try a splash of orange juice. Enjoy with a big glass of milk!