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Make Ahead Maple Baked French Toast Recipe

Make Ahead Maple Baked French Toast Recipe
  • Category

    Bread

  • Cusine

    French

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Ingredients

5 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided

1 loaf Italian bread , roughly torn into 1 1/2-inch pieces

1 pound cooked crumbled bulk breakfast sausage

2 1/2 cups milk

6 eggs, beaten

1/2 cup sugar, divided

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup maple syrup, divided

1/2 cups sliced almonds

Directions

Using 1 tablespoon butter, grease a 9- by 13-inch baking dish. Toss bread with sausage , then transfer to baking dish. Whisk together milk, eggs, 1/4 cup sugar, vanilla, and 1/4 cup maple syrup. Pour milk mixture over bread, pressing bread down into mixture with a wooden spoon to absorb. Mix together remaining butter, sugar, and maple syrup then add almonds. Scatter almond mixture over bread, cover, and refrigerate overnight. The next morning, bake on the middle rack of a preheated 325 degrees F oven until bread has begun to brown and almonds are toasted, about 35 minutes.