Company French Toast Easy To Do-ahead Holiday Breakfast

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 8 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 12 slices bread
• 6 eggs
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Recipe

• 1 melt butter in a 9x12 glass casserole.
• 2 add brown sugar and cinnamon. stir, covering bottom of pan (add more butter or sugar if necessary for a thick sauce).
• 3 place six slices of bread to cover bottom of pan.
• 4 add any 'dress up' additions you may want onto the top of each slice of bread. some ideas may be a dollop of cream cheese, jam, banana slices, caramel covered pecans, cooked bacon or sausage, etc. feel free to leave out the extras - i usually don't add anything.
• 5 top with remaining six slices of bread.
• 6 slice each 'sandwich' diagonally. this creates beautiful, triangular servings.
• 7 mix eggs, water, salt and pepper together in a bowl. you can also use milk instead of water. (at 9000ft elevation, i have found water works better when scrambling eggs. i don't know why that is.).
• 8 pour egg mixture over bread slices and cover dish with foil.
• 9 refrigerate overnight.
• 10 in the morning, put cold pan into cold oven and turn the heat to 350. bake about 35 minutes until eggs are set.
• 11 to serve, loosen sides and separate each serving with spatula. scoop each serving upside down onto plate. the brown sugar mixture becomes the top of the sandwich and runs down the sides.