Baked Blueberry-pecan French Toast
From tequila12 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Elegant and easy baked French Toast ..great for a brunch party! Presentation is beautiful...looks like you stayed up all night to make it.
Ingredients
- 1 24- inch baguette shopping list
- 6 large eggs shopping list
- 3 cups whole milk shopping list
- 1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg shopping list
- 1 tsp vanilla shopping list
- 1 cup packed brown sugar shopping list
- 1 cup pecan pieces (about 3 oz.) shopping list
- 1/2 stick plus 1 tsp unsalted butter shopping list
- 1/4 tsp salt shopping list
- 2 cups blueberries preferably fresh shopping list
How to make it
- Butter a 13 x 9 inch baking dish.
- Cut twenty 1 inch slices from baguette and arrange in one layer in baking dish.
- In a large bowl whisk together eggs, milk, nutmeg, vanilla and 3/4 cup brown sugar and pour evenly over bread.
- Chill mixture, until all liquid is absorbed by bread, at least 8 hours, up to one day.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a shallow pan spread pecan pieces evenly and toast in oven until fragrant, about 8 minutes.
- Increase oven temp to 400.
- Sprinkle pecans and blueberries evenly over bread mixture.
- Cut 1/2 stick butter into pieces and in a small sauce pan heat with remaining 1/4 cup brown sugar, stirring, until butter is melted.
- Drizzle butter mixture over bread and bake 20-30 minutes or until any liquid from blueberries is bubbling.
- Serve with blueberry syrup.
- NOTE: If there is a large quanity of liquid that was not absorbed by the bread, drain before adding blueberries and pecans.
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