Cinnamon Toast French Toast

Page: smittenkitchen.com/2012/04/cinnamon-toast-french-toast-cookbook-preview/

| Course Type: Breakfast/Brunch

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Recipe Review

I love the convenience of baked french toast but I find that too many recipes are more like bread pudding. This one isn’t and also has the added appeal of tasting like cinnamon toast: a melding of 2 delicious breakfast foods.

The first step is to make the cinnamon toast. I found that 450F was much too high a temperature for toasting the bread evenly; the bottoms were nicely toasted after only 5 minutes but the tops had not yet caramelized so I put them under the broiler. In my oven, 350-375 would have been a better toasting temperature.

I assembled the dish the night before and I think it benefited from this as it allowed the bread to absorb most of the egg mixture. Baking time was ~10 minutes longer - to be expected coming straight from the fridge.

I made a few changes to the recipe:
- replaced white with whole wheat bread
- omitted the butter on the bread ……the cinnamon topping caramelizes in the oven so stays put without it
- used 1% milk instead of full fat

I enjoyed it plain as it had enough flavour/sweetness to stand on its own but others enjoyed it with Greek yogurt and maple syrup.

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