Best Baked Caramel Apple French Toast Recipes

BAKED CARAMEL-APPLE FRENCH TOAST

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Baked French toast with apples and caramel sauce. The consistency of the finished recipe will be similar to bread pudding! A glass baking pan will help prevent the toast from sticking.

Provided by Joan Rembacz

Categories Breakfast and Brunch French Toast Recipes

Time 15h

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 15

Ingredients

1 (1 pound) loaf French bread, sliced
6 eggs
1 ½ cups skim milk
⅓ cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
6 apple - peeled, cored and sliced
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons white sugar
½ cup white sugar
¼ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup margarine, melted
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup skim milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Steps:

Cut bread into 1 1/2 inch thick slices and place in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking pan. In a large bowl, beat eggs with 1 1/2 cup skim milk, 1/3 cup white sugar, and 1 tablespoon vanilla. Pour egg mixture over bread slices.
Arrange apple slices on top of bread. Sprinkle cinnamon, nutmeg, and 2 tablespoons white sugar over apples. Cover, and refrigerate overnight.
In the morning: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Bake toast in preheated oven until golden brown, about 1 hour. Meanwhile, combine 1/2 cup white sugar, flour, and margarine. Stir in brown sugar, 1/2 cup skim milk, and 2 teaspoons vanilla in a small saucepan. Cook until thick. Serve French toast hot with warm sauce.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 361 calories, Carbohydrate 57.3 g, Cholesterol 93.8 mg, Fat 10.9 g, Fiber 2.8 g, Protein 9.5 g, SaturatedFat 2.3 g, Sodium 385.1 mg, Sugar 32.5 g

OVEN BAKED CARAMEL APPLE FRENCH TOAST

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Wonderful oven baked breakfast fit for company or just the family on a lazy Sunday morning. This is a "Make Ahead" dish to refrigerate overnight, then bake the next day! *You can substitute Pears for the apples

Provided by Sher Bird

Categories Eggs

Time 1h15m

Number Of Ingredients 18

Ingredients

1 c dark brown sugar
3 Tbsp white corn syrup (karo or other)
6 Tbsp butter
1 c chopped pecans
3 each golden delicious apples, peeled, cored and sliced (or you may use pears instead!)
1/3 c water
1 tsp ground cinnamon
3 Tbsp white sugar
1 Tbsp each: lemon juice and cornstarch
12 slice french bread or challah, 1 inch thick
12 oz cream cheese
6 large eggs
1 c milk (whole milk preferably)
1 c whipping cream or half n half
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
2 tsp ground cinnamon
OPTIONAL GARNISHES:
confectioner's sugar, whipped cream, chopped pecans, cinnamon, nutmeg

Steps:

1. Generously grease a 9x13" oven baking pan. Preheat oven to 350 deg. F.
2. Combne brown sugar, white corn syrup, and butter in a sauce pan. Bring to a boil and boil for one minute, stirring often. Pour into bottom of greased oven dish, spread out evenly. Spread pecans over.
3. Combine the apples, water, cinmamon, white sugar, lemon juice and cook, stirring constnatly, in sauce pan over medium heat just until apples slices begin to soften up. Add the cornstarch, mix in well and continue to stir until mixture thickens up, then remove from the heat.
4. Place just six of the bread slices in a single layer in the baking dish over the caramel layer. Thickly spread each slice with some cream cheese. Distribute the apple mixture over the bread slices in the pan. Pour apple mixture over the bread. Cover the pan with the remaining 6 slices of bread.
5. Mix together the eggs, milk, cream, vanilla, connamon. Pour this over the bread in the baking dish. Cover and refrigerate overnight (not for more than 24 hours).
6. Remove pan from refrigerator, and remove cover. Bake for 1 hour in a 350 deg. oven until browned and slightly puffy. Remove from oven and immediately place portions on serving plates. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. If desired add whipped cream and a garnish of more chopped pecans, cinnamon, or nutmeg.