This is one of the "I'm to tired to spend a lot of time in the kitchen" kind of recipes, you can mix all the ingredients and leave it in the fridge overnight, then put it in the oven and voila: tasty warm breakfast for everyone. You can leave the fruit out or use pretty much any other kind of fruit with it, you could also leave it a little but longer in the oven for some extra crunchiness. This recipe is for a rather large amount of French bread but BELIEVE me, there won't be much over!
Ingredients:
- 1 loaf Crusty bread, cubed (you can use any crusty bread, it will work better than normal bread slices)
- 8 eggs
- 2 cup milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup sugar (you could also use light brown sugar)
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
Topping:
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 stick cold butter in chunks
- 1 cup chopped apples, peaches, apricots or berries
Directions:
- Grease a medium baking dish with butter. Distribute the cubed bread in it.
- Mix eggs, milk, cream, sugar and vanilla, whisk good and pour over the bread. Cover and store in the fridge (abything from 2 hours to overnight).
- In a large blowl mix the flour, brown sugar, cinammon and salt. Add the chuks of butter and mix good without creating a dough, you are aiming for little crumbles of buttery heaven. Store in the fridge (you could use a resealable bag for this).
- When you are ready to bake the bread preheat the ove to 220 C.
- Sprinkle the fresh fruit if you are using any and then add the crumble mixture on top.
- Bake for 45 minutes or a but longer if you want it to be more crunchy.
- Scoop out and serve with maple syrup (optional).
- Enjoy!!
Tip: You can add 1/2 cup of Pecans or any other kind of nut to the crumble mixture, I have used rolled Oats also and the result is quite tasty too!
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