Everyone will be coming back for seconds when you make this dreamy French toast with sweet bursts of blueberries. Prepped the night before you want to serve, all you need to do in the morning is pop it into the oven and bake until golden and soul-warmingly good. Sunday brekky done.
How to make overnight blueberry French toast: key tips
Refrigerate bread mixture for at least 8 hours (and up to 24 hours) to allow the bread to soak up the liquid and for the flavours to develop.
Cut your brioche into lovely thick slices so that the slices will soak up all that yummy custardy mixture while still remaining intact. Once you arrange the slices in the dish and pour in the milk mixture, give the slices a gentle push so that every part of the bread will become soaked.
Key ingredients in this French toast recipe
If you don't have a loaf of brioche you can use a loaf of white bread instead. Stale bread is also fine to use.
This recipe uses caster sugar, but if you want to avoid refined sugar, you could easily replace it with enough honey or maple syrup to suit your tastes.
French toast is just made for lazy Sunday brunches. Try these delicious French toast recipes, too, and consider pancakes every other week!
Introduction and additional recipe notes by Kidspot Kitchen and Natasha Shaw.
Ingredients
- 1 loaf brioche
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 cup caster sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups milk
- 1 punnet fresh blueberries
Method
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Step 1The day before you want to eat, slice the bread into thick-ish pieces, and arrange them in a shallow baking dish. Whisk together the eggs, sugar, vanilla and milk in a large bowl and pour evenly over the bread. Scatter over the blueberries and then cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge overnight.
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Step 2The next morning, turn the oven on to 180°C, no need to preheat. Remove the plastic from the French toast, and place in the oven. Bake for 35 minutes, or until golden brown and puffed up, with no liquid in the centre (stab a knife in to check if you need to).
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Step 3Serve the bake with a drizzle of maple syrup, and a spoonful of yoghurt or some more fresh fruit on the side.
Recipe Notes
Is this overnight blueberry French toast very sweet?
The sugar content is kept pretty low – after all this is breakfast! And one of the joys of French toast is that little drizzle of maple syrup at the end, which would be out of place on a too-sweet dish.
Can I change up the fruit in this overnight blueberry French toast?
I scatter over blueberries because they’re my favourite, and they’re the classic breakfast choice, but any other berry, or even sliced apples or pears, would be lovely. You could even do a banana version.
Can I sprinkle in some spices, seeds or nuts?
You can add spices, like a pinch of nutmeg or cinnamon, different nuts or a scattering of poppyseeds – the beauty of this recipe is that you can customise it and it’s so much fun to make on a Friday or Saturday night, and then to eat on a Saturday or Sunday morning.
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