So I survived Easter and I didn't kill anyone. Bonus! I did want to strangle a cousin and their wife for being incredibly rude but that's a story for another day.
The baked french toast turned out pretty good if I say so myself. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of it. I did play with the recipe slightly. The egg mixture I did the same except for adding an 1/8t of clove. It was the topping that I made a major adjustment on. Instead of 2 sticks of butter I only used one. And trust me it really didn't need that other stick. (But it is a Paula Deen recipe and we all know of her love for butter) I also took out the corn syrup. And I only spread it on 2/3 of the pan. I left a portion without the pecan topping as my grandma is diabetic and really shouldn't have all that brown sugar.
A couple of things I learned from this recipe...
- make sure your french bread gets stale. It helps soak up the egg/milk mixture.
- be careful about the overlapping in the pan. It looked pretty but it was a pain in the butt to cut.
- the topping wasn't as crumbly as I thought it would be so it is a bit messy to spread out. And add the pecans AFTER combining the brown sugar and butter. It's easier to mix that way.
But all in all the recipe got thumbs up from everyone. It was sweet but not overly so. You didn't need syrup on the pieces that had the pecan topping. It's definitely one I'm going to try again.
Now my mom made a different Paula Deen breakfast casserole with potato chips, ham, cheese, egg soaked bread and bananas. yes you heard me right...BANANAS. Once you picked out the bananas it wasn't bad. But yeah with them in it...it was a bit strange. But that's Paula for ya.
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