Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Bagel French Toast

Another favorite from my friend, Joy and her cookbook Bliss
Bagel French Toast

4 - 6 Large cinnamon, blueberry or plain bagels
(I used cinnamon sugar crunch bagels, found at only at Smith's)
4 to 8 oz. cream cheese
1 cup fresh or frozen berries
12 eggs
2 cups milk
1/3 maple syrup

Cut up bagels into cubes and place in a buttered 9x13 dish. Cut up cream cheese and place over bagels. Sprinkle berries on top. Mix eggs, milk and syrup. Pour over bagels, cover, and refrigerate overnight. Remove from fridge 30 minutes before baking. Preheat oven to 350 degrees, cover with foil and bake 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake 30 minutes more.

Serve with following Berry Syrup - or one of your favorites.

Berry Syrup
1 cup sugar
2 Tbsp cornstarch
1 cup water
1 cup mixed berries (fresh or frozen)
1 Tbsp butter

Mix sugar, cornstarch and then water. Boil over medium heat for 3 minutes, mixing well. Stir in berries and reduce heat. Simmer 8 -10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in butter until melted. Serve warm.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mmmm! Sounds too yummy!

Becky A said...

this was amazing, too. It reminded me of bread pudding. A BIG hit! Only I think we needed more syrup...

Care said...

We would of needed more syrup, as well, but we sort of forgot about it until the end of the meal - it was much better WITH!

Steph said...

Yummy Yummy! really liked this.