Friday, March 22, 2013

Smitten Kitchen's Cinnamon French Toast

This is the a great way to make French Toast for a group. By making cinnamon toast first, the flavor is cinnamony and great, adding some extra sweetness. It's perfect for when you have a group of people to feed for breakfast and you don't want to serve everyone one by one and have to eat alone at the end. Very tasty!

Serves 4 (double to serve 8)
Ingredients:
1/2 tbsp cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
8 pieces of white toast
1/2 stick butter
1 1/2 cups whole milk
3 eggs
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla
maple syrup

Directions:
To make cinnamon toast, preheat oven to 450. Whisk cinnamon and sugar together in a small bowl. Line a baking sheet with foil and place bread on the sheet.



Spread each piece with about a tbsp of butter and sprinkle with 1 tsp of the sugar marathon.
Toast them in the oven for about 7-10 minutes until crispy. Remove and reduce the oven temperature to 375.
Butter a small casserole or loaf pan. Cut the pieces in half (or keep whole for a bigger pan).
Neatly place them in the pan, overlapping. Whisk the eggs, milk, salt, and vanilla in a bowl and pour evenly over the dish and bread.
Let it soak up for about 15 minutes. Pop it in the oven for about 20-30 minutes until the bread has firmed up a big and there's no custard left.
Cut into squares and serve with maple syrup.

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