Overnight French Toast
Robin Hughes
Another great one for Christmas morning. Make the night before and pop in the oven in the morning.
ingredients
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 stick butter
- 2 Tab. water
- 2 green apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 12-14 slices firm white bread
- 5 eggs, well beaten
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 Tabs. vanilla extract
directions
- 1
Heat brown sugar and butter until melted in a frying pan.
- 2
Add apples, water and cinnamon.
- 3
Cook until apples are slightly soft and sugar foamy.
- 4
Pour in to a 9x13 baking dish.
- 5
LET COOL
- 6
When cool, overlap bead in two rows on apple mixture.
- 7
Mix beaten eggs, milk and vanilla. Pour over bread.
- 8
Cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight.
- 9
Bake at 350 for 40 minutes, covering the last 15 minutes if bread is browning too quickly.
- 10
Cut and invert servings so apples are on top. You can serve with syrup, but it really does not need it.
notes
I got this recipe form my mother-in-law, Janet Hughes, who got it at a Child and Family Services brunch.
Source: Robin Hughes
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