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Number one for some: Shorecrest Bed and Breakfast ‘Famous Apple Baked French.

After many requests I am finally posting the recipes for my most popular breakfast dishes. This French toast dish is amongst the top ten in close competition with stuffed pancakes – coming soon!

Ingredients

A Challah loaf or Panatone bread, round of oblong. Choose a pan according to the shape of your loaf.

4 – 5 Granny Smith apples

Sugar and cinnamon

Butter

7 eggs

1.5 cups of milk

.5 cup of maple syrup

Slivered almonds

Cranberries

Cream cheese

2-3 drops of orange extract

Preparation

Core, peel and thinly slice apples

Melt butter in large pan and add apples, sugar to taste and sprinkle with cinnamon

Cook to point of caramelization being careful not to overcook.

While this is cooking:

Remove  top and bottom crusts from bread and cut in half horizontally

Spread bottom layer with cream cheese and set in baking pan just slightly larger than the loaf. I use a round cast iron non stick or a rectangular silicone flexible

Sprinkle with almonds and cranberries and layer half apples to cover

Place upper half of loaf on top and layer with rest of apples

In a bowl mix together eggs, milk, orange extract and maple syrup (use less maple syrup with panatone)

Pour carefully over bread and apples in pan. The bread might float – that’s ok.

Refrigerate over night

Cooking method

Set oven to 375 degrees f.

Place pan in oven and cook approx 45 minutes or until a knife comes out clean

Remove from oven and allow to cool 5 minutes

Place a flat dish over the top of the pan the bread was baked in and flip over to remove

Place serving dish on exposed bottom of French toast and flip again

Allow to cool another 5-10 minutes and cut into slices as desired ( 10-12)

Sprinkle with slivered almonds and powdered sugar to serve

Enjoy!