Overnight French toast breakfast recipe
Delicious and easy French toast breakfast for the whole family. Prepare the bread the night before, this will allow it time to soak then in the morning simply pop it into the oven and enjoy your breakfast.
Ingredients
French toast
- 1 small loaf 1 lb loaf
- 500 ml milk of choice
- 200 gr honey
- 50 gr butter
- 5 eggs
- 3 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract optional
The topping (optional)
- 60 gr butter
- 30 gr flour plain
- 30 gr oats rolled
- 50 gr soft brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon optional
Instructions
French toast (night before)
- Ideally, you do the preparations the night before, but if you accidentally forgot. You can let it soak for half an hour or so before you put it in the oven.
- Cut up the loaf of bread into big chunks, alternatively, you can also rip it into chunks if you prefer. Place the chunks of bread into the oven dish.
- Melt the butter and add to a medium size bowl, then add in the honey, cinnamon, vanilla, and the milk.
- In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and add to the bowl with the milk mixture and mix well.
- Pour the mixture over the bread chunks in the oven dish and let soak overnight in the fridge, or for at least 30 minutes.
The topping
- Pour the flour into a small bowl and rub in the butter, then mix in the oats, soft brown sugar, and cinnamon.
- If you make it the night before you can store it in the fridge.
Into the oven (the morning)
- Preheat the oven to 220 °C or 425 °F
- If you've not made the topping yet then do so now. Then sprinkle the topping on top of the soaked bread chunks.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
- Enjoy with some cinnamon sugar or a drizzle of honey.
Notes
Cinnamon sugar is my favourite topping for french toast, to make it you simply add 1 tsp of cinnamon to a cup of sugar. If you want a stronger cinnamon flavour just add a dash or two more.