Delicious Apple French Toast Bake
Prep / 20 minutes / cook time / 45 minutes /serves 4-6
Don’t have much to say about this recipe but YUMMY!!
Ingredients:
- 1 16” baguette sliced into ½-¾ “ slices[ I cut the tips off the ends]
- 5 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- Pinch of salt
Method
- Grease a 9×9 oval or round baking dish, lay the bread slices on bottom
- Whisk the eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, nutmeg and salt together.
- Pour over bread let soak
- 3-4 granny smith apples [ peeled and sliced ]
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ cup sugar
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- ¼ tsp salt
- 3 tbsp melted butter
- Place all this in a bag, seal and mix it all up until the apple slices are coated
- Pour over bread in baking dish, cover and refrigerate at least 6 hours, or overnight
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Uncover baking dish and bake until apples are soft and eggs are set, [ about 30 minutes]
- Stir slightly and turn off oven
- Turn upside with a spatula and drizzle more syrup
- Place in still hot oven for about 5 minutes
- Remove and serve.
** Try tucking some precooked sausage or bacon somewhere in the baking dish before baking
*** A great sunday brunch dish or [ even dessert?]
**** Mix in some raisins chopped nuts w/the apple mixture before you pour over Bread