Bundle--Buttermilk White Bread (with directions for Deluxe Baked French Toast filled with cream cheese or Bavaran cream))
Use this bread mix to make baked French toast. Assemble it in the evening, stick it in the fridge for up to five days, and bake it when you get up.
What makes this different is the filling. It's filled with either a cream cheese or Bavarian cream filling--which makes it devastatingly good.
- If you want a cream cheese filling, a very simple one-step recipe follows (mix sugar, vanilla, and cream cheese together).
- Bavarian cream is divine. This is premade, two pounds of ready-to-use professional Bavarian cream. Just squeeze it between the layers.
Baked French Toast is a wonder! Assemble it whenever you have time--say, in the evening after the kids are in bed. Put it in the refrigerator for up to five days. Pick a morning and bake it while you're getting ready for work.
When you're ready for the day, breakfast is ready.
No wonder this is the Busy Mom's Favorite French Toast!
How to Make Cream Cheese or Bavarian Cream Baked French Toast
Baked French toast is a soft French toast made by layering the bread and an egg mixture in a baking pan and refrigerating it until you're ready to bake it. It’s simple.
This baked French toast is made in an 8 1/2 x 13-inch pan. In the morning, you just pop it in the oven. Let it bake while you are getting ready for the day, and you’ll have a wonderful breakfast for your family.
The recipe below calls for either Bavarian cream pastry filling or a whipped cream cheese filling made with two parts cream cheese to one part sugar, with a teaspoon of vanilla added. Let your family choose their favorite.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 12 slices soft bread
- 6 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- Bavarian Cream pastry filling or a whipped cream cheese filling
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Melt the butter in a 9 x 13-inch baking pan. Stir in the brown sugar and one teaspoon of cinnamon.
- Make six sandwiches with the bread filled with pastry cream, cream cheese, or another filling. Lay the sandwiches in the pan as shown.
- Whisk the eggs, milk, and cinnamon together. Pour the mixture evenly over the bread. Sprinkle the 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon over the bread. Place the pan in the refrigerator overnight.
- Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until the bread is browned. Serve hot with the syrup of your choice or a flavored honey.
Homemade bread is better. It tastes better and is better for you. With more substance, it makes a better French toast.
No wonder it's different, better. Homemade just tastes better.
- What's the main difference between this homemade bread and store-bought bread? Do you mean beyond the chemicals? For me, there are two. The taste is very different. And the crumb, the texture is very different. Store bread is doughy. Homemade bread is soft, but it has some structure to it. It's not meant for dough balls.
- What's this bread like? Well, it's a white loaf with a bronze-colored crust. The crust is soft, not tough or crunchy. The interior is soft and white and moist.
- That sounds an awful lot like Country Farm White Bread. What's the difference? The flavor. The buttermilk. It adds flavor to the bread.
- Well, what's the flavor like? Country Farm White. It's loaded with dairy, which makes the bread smoother and sweeter. Buttermilk replaces the sweet milk. That adds flavor. It's not like sourdough, but it has a little tang. The flavor is not nearly as strong as sourdough.
- How tall is it? It's like Country Farm white. With the right water temperature, it's six or seven inches tall in your bread machine.
- What if I don't have a bread machine? It's easy to make in your oven.
- Will my kids like it? It's a kid's delight, soft and light and way better than Wonderbread.
Dennis Weaver