Breakfast and Brunch Recipes
Pear Filled Vanilla French Toast
Get this ready for baking the night before serving!
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 1 cup dark brown sugar (packed)
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 (28 ounce) can sliced pears
- 4 cups crumbled French bread
- 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
- 9 eggs
- 2 cups milk or vanilla ice cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Melt brown sugar and vanilla extract over medium heat. Add water and continue heating until mixture bubbles. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
- Pour mixture into a well greased 9 x 6 x2-inch pan. Slice pear slices again to thin them and place close together in the sauce in bottom of pan. Sprinkle crumbled French bread over pears, covering with approximately 1 1/2 inches of bread. Sprinkle
chopped nuts over bread.
- Beat remaining ingredients until well blended and pour evenly over bread. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Uncover and bake for 40 minutes or until bread puffs up.
- Serve with pecan maple syrup.