So I’m not a big breakfast eater. I don’t love milk, and I’m sort of disenchanted with maple syrup. But my Kids (and Husband) get a hot breakfast every morning. And some mornings, like this one, breakfast borders on dessert.
I wish I had a camera. You’d want to lick the screen.
Here’s what we ate:
Caramel Apple French Toast
1 loaf day-old french bread (homemade or not – ours was), sliced into thick pieces
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
2 Tablespoons tapioca (or cornstarch)
4 cups sliced and peeled apples
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cinnamon sugar as desired (because why not?)
Melt the butter and stir in brown sugar and corn syrup. I do this in the microwave in the 9×13 pan (which you’re going to bake it in), so as to not make further messes. Nuke that for a minute or so. Stir in the apple slices and spread them along the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle with the tapioca. Mix eggs, milk and vanilla in a bowl. Dip bread slices into egg mixture and place them on top of apples. Wedge them in nice and tight. When that’s all done and the pan is full, pour the extra milky eggs over the top (you know, evenly). Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Cover it up and put it in the fridge overnight.
In the morning, preheat the oven to 400. While it’s heating, let the french toast sit on the counter. (Because trust me, we don’t want to put a cold pan in a hot oven. No. You don’t want to know.) Uncover it and bake for 45 minutes, or until everyone is drooling, noses pressed to oven door. When you serve it, scoop it out and flip it over, ala pineapple upside down cake. Except for breakfast. And if you’re too healthy for that to be a breakfast food, go ahead and make it for dessert – and be sure to serve it with a scoop of ice cream.
You’re welcome. I love you, too.
(9) Comments for this blog
Wow. Thank you.
Man, that sounds good. But it would undo all the exercising I did this morning. Darn!
Did I read serve with ice cream? Lucky family! My kids would be so jealous if they knew. =)
You WOULD post this on the very same day that I got up extra early for the first time EVER in my LIFE to exercise!
Sounds like a little piece of Heaven.
But if I eat it, I’ll need a magic mirror.
You are super mom, I’m convinced. A hot breakfast every morning? My family would think I had died and been replaced by a fairy godmother.
That being said, I now must try your dessert for breakfast idea. And I can see my kids with their noses pressed up to the oven door.
Marc would LOVE (TRIPLE LOVE) this!!! It’s kinda sending me into a sugar coma just reading it, though! What a rockin’ mama you are!
I just ate but I am suddenly SO hungry.
And re: last post? Honey, you do look fabulous! I should know. =D
I just gained five pounds by reading this.
Uh, so you must be done with your no-sugar diet, because I made that recipe, and it was full of sugar. And I mean full. It was super delicious, but guess what? My kids hated it. I know, they’re ridiculous.