Baked French Toast. This was my first try at a baked French toast, and it was YUMMY! As with most recipes, I scaled it down for my small family. I halved the recipe, added an extra egg and a little extra splash of milk, used whole grain bread (crusts on, cut into large cubes), and tossed the bread in the egg-milk mixture, rather than pouring it over.

Pour over bread slices, cover, and refrigerate overnight. For the French toast: Grease the baking pan with butter. Tear the bread into chunks, or cut into cubes, and evenly distribute in the pan. You can have Baked French Toast using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Baked French Toast

It's 8 slices of bread.
It's of Custard.
It's 2 of eggs.
You need 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
Prepare 125 ml of plain yoghurt or buttermilk.
You need 100 ml of milk.
It's 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder.
It's of Raspberry filling.
You need 1 pack of raspberries.
It's 2 tablespoons of sugar.
You need 5 tablespoons of water.
It's of Juice of ½ a lemon or lime.

Crack the eggs in a big bowl. Whisk together the eggs, milk, cream, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla. For the French toast: Grease the baking pan with butter. Tear the bread into chunks, or cut into cubes, and evenly distribute in the pan.

Baked French Toast step by step

Prepare custard by whisking eggs, milk, plain yoghurt, vanilla essence and cinnamon powder into a bowl..
Dip your bread in the custard on both sides and make sure bread is fully coated. Drip excess custard and place them in a baking dish..
Pour the excess custard into the baking dish and refrigerate for 1hr for the bread to absorb the custard and flavours (it's like marinating)..
Preheat oven to 180°C for 20 minutes. Spray your oven tray with oil and lay the bread leaving space between them so that they don't stick together. Sprinkle a little oil on the upper side as well..
Bake for 8 minutes and flip for the other side to cook through. Bake for an additional 6 minutes..
Remove from the oven and serve with raspberry filling on top (check previous post for recipe) and garnish with extra raspberries and blueberries..

Crack the eggs in a big bowl. Dip bread in the egg mixture and place on cookie sheets. Cut remaining butter into pieces and scatter over bread. Sprinkle with a bit of powdered sugar when done. For the best baked French toast, it's important that you use either day old bread or that you quickly dry out the bread in the oven before mixing with the other ingredients.