Overnight Orange French Toast
photo by lazyme
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 3 tablespoons freshly grated orange zest
- 2 cups fresh orange juice
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons triple sec
- 6 large eggs
- 1⁄2 cup half-and-half
- 8 slices challah or 8 slices dense bakery bread, 1 inch thick,cut on the diagonal
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
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Sauce
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons orange marmalade
- 1 tablespoon triple sec
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Accompaniment
- pure maple syrup
directions
- Whisk together zest, juice, sugar, vanilla, triple sec, eggs, half-and-half, and a pinch of salt.
- Arrange bread slices in one layer in a 13 X 9 inch glass baking dish.
- Pour mixture over bread, turning slices to coat, and chill, covered, overnight.
- Preheat oven to 400F and brush a large baking pan with butter.
- Using a slotted spatula arrange bread in one layer on baking pan, leaving atleast 2 inches between each slice and bake in middle of oven 5 minutes.
- Rotate pan and bake 5 minutes more.
- Rotate pan again and bake until bread is puffed and golden, about 5 minutes more.
- Make sauce while bread is baking: Cook butter, marmalade and triple sec over low heat, stirring, until butter is melted.
- Drizzle French toast with sauce and serve with syrup, if desired.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.