Have you ever heard of overnight French toast? No? Well, let us educate you on a great Christmas morning breakfast. You prepare the breakfast the night before, or day before, and when you get up in the morning, just pop it into a preheated oven, wait about 30 minutes and you have an excellent tasting French toast breakfast. It’s great because you can open your presents while breakfast is cooking itself. But how well does it compare with the standard French toast in a skillet?
Overnight French Toast
Ingredients:
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1⁄2 cup margarine
- 12 slices white bread
- 1 cup brown sugar (*You may wish to reduce the amount of sugar used to 2/3 cup.)
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 5-6 eggs
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
Preparation
- Melt margarine in a 9 x 13 baking pan.
- Put 6 slices of bread in bottom of pan.
- In a bowl mix 1 cup brown sugar with 1 tsp cinnamon.
- Sprinkle 1/2 of this sugar mixture over bread.
- Add another layer of 6 slices of bread.
- In a bowl, whisk eggs with milk until well blended.
- Pour over bread layers.
- Sprinkle with remaining sugar mixture.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Bake covered at 350 30 minutes.
- Uncover and continue baking 15 minutes or until set and browned.
Full Video Tutorial
Skillet French Toast
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs, beaten
- ½ cup milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ tablespoon cinnamon-sugar mixture
- About 3 tablespoons of butter
- 6 slices of bread, or until the custard is used up.
Preparation:
- Add to the beaten eggs the milk, vanilla and cinnamon-sugar mixture and mix well
- Heat up a skillet to about medium heat.
- Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in the pan.
- Dip the slices of bread in the egg mixture making sure to fully coat the bread and place it in the skillet. Hopefully, you can fit 2 or 3 slices of bread in the skillet at the same time. Once the bread is nice and toasted brown, flip it over and brown the other side. Once both sides are nice and brown take them out of the skillet and place them on a plate.
- Repeat until all the egg mixture has been used up.
Results
The flavors of the overnight French toast come through in a more pronounced way but the bread is soggier. The skillet French toast it more firm, but there isn’t much cinnamon or egg flavor to taste. All three contestants preferred the overnight French toast for it’s flavor.
Kitchen Items used in this recipe
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| Meat Cleaver | SENZER Gravity Electric Salt and Pepper Grinder Set |
