Make Ahead Maple Baked French Toast Recipe
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- 1 loaf Italian bread (about 1 pound), roughly torn into 1 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 pound cooked crumbled bulk breakfast sausage (optional)
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- 6 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 cup sugar, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup maple syrup, divided
- 1/2 cups sliced almonds
- Using 1 tablespoon butter, grease a 9- by 13-inch baking dish. Toss bread with sausage (if using), then transfer to baking dish. Whisk together milk, eggs, 1/4 cup sugar, vanilla, and 1/4 cup maple syrup. Pour milk mixture over bread, pressing bread down into mixture with a wooden spoon to absorb.
- Mix together remaining butter, sugar, and maple syrup then add almonds. Scatter almond mixture over bread, cover, and refrigerate overnight. The next morning, bake on the middle rack of a preheated 325u0b0F oven until bread has begun to brown and almonds are toasted, about 35 minutes.
unsalted butter, italian bread, sausage, milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, maple syrup, almonds
Taken from www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/04/mak-ahead-maple-baked-french-toast.html (may not work)