Baked Blueberry French Toast
An easy recipe for overnight baked blueberry French Toast
Ingredients
- 1 stale baguette
- 1 cup blueberries
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tbsp butter
Instructions
- Prepare a 9x13 baking dish by lightly spraying it with nonstick cooking spray or coating lightly in butter. I didn't do this and some of the cooked bread got stuck.
- Cut a stale baguette into slices and then cut each slice into one-inch cubes.
- Place the cut bread into the baking dish.
- Pour the milk into a medium bowl.
- Add the four eggs to the milk and whisk it all together until slightly foamy.
- Add the sugar and stir until combined.
- Add the cinnamon and mix.
- Add the vanilla and mix.
- Sprinkle the blueberries evenly over the bread.
- Pour the custard mix evenly over the surface of the bread.
- Press the bread down into the blueberries. Be careful to do it gently so you don't break the berries. I actually tossed the bread in the liquid by using my hands.
- Cover the dish with aluminum foil and put into the fridge. Leaving it overnight works best.
- Take the dish out of the fridge the next morning and let it sit on a counter while you preheat the oven.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Cut the butter into cubes and dot it over the surface of the bread.
- Bake the French toast with the foil on for about 30 minutes.
- Remove the foil and let the French toast bake for another 15 minutes until the bread is golden and the blueberries bubbling.
- Serve plain or with maple syrup or a sprinkle of confectioner's sugar. I made cinnamon sugar with 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon and we used that.
Notes
Tips:
Don't forget that this is an overnight recipe. You need to start early!
If you don't have any baguettes, you can try very thick bread (like a peasant style bread).
The bread should be pretty hard/stale. You can accelerate that by cutting the bread when you buy it and placing it in the dish. Let it sit until it is fairly hard.