Baked Overnight French Toast

Prepare a casserole dish with all the ingredients for this overnight baked French toast recipe and simply bake in the morning for a delicious start to the day. This is an easy baked French toast to serve with syrup, fruit, cream and/or powdered sugar.

Serves: 6

1/4 cup butter, room temperature

12 3/4 inch slices French bread

6 eggs

1 1/2 cups milk

1/4 cup sugar

2 tablespoons maple syrup

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon salt

Powdered sugar

In large bowl beat eggs, milk, sugar, syrup, vanilla and salt to blend. Pour mixture over bread. Turn bread slices to coat. Cover with plastic and refrigerate overnight.

In the morning, preheat oven to 400° F.

Spread butter over bottom of heavy large baking pan with 1 inch sides. Remove bread from egg mixture and arrange slices in pan.

Bake French bread 10 minutes. Turn bread over and continue baking until just golden, about 4 minutes longer.

Transfer cooked toast to plates and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve at once with warm maple syrup and chopped, toasted walnuts.