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Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread French Toast with Fresh Strawberries

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Okay, we are not gonna lie, we get more requests for this chocolate chunk banana bread than we can even count.  Sorry to brag but it’s true.  For some reason, this bread is just insanely good!!  It’s so delicate and moist (yep), and bursting with sweet banana flavor (probably because we use 3-4 bananas in the recipe) but then you add in the sweet chocolate surprise and Wow!  Outa this world.  The people come running when it comes out of the oven.  No joke!  So…the story of the banana bread french toast goes like this…we had a loaf on the counter one Saturday morning and literally had this brilliant idea (call it an epiphany) to use the banana bread for the french toast instead of just regular ol bread.  We cannot explain where these ideas come from but we are not going to question it…we just follow our instincts!  Yea, so you can only imagine how that went over!!  It was deliciously insane and that is why we must share it with you.

You might not believe that this bread can get any better than it already is but we are here to tell you that IT CAN!  I mean, dredging bread in an egg mixture and cooking it up in a pan, then drizzling it with pure maple syrup, fresh strawberries and a sprinkle of powdered sugar is pure magic!  The kids and hubby have requested this one many times…who can blame them?  Dad will LOVE this recipe so look no further….serve Dad this for breakfast on Father’s Day and he is guaranteed to have the best start to his day!


Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread French Toast with Fresh Strawberries
 
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Serves: 2
Ingredients
For the French Toast:
  • 4 slices banana bread (see recipe below)
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1 C fresh strawberries, sliced
  • 100% pure maple syrup
  • optional - powdered sugar for dusting
For the Banana Bread:
  • 3-4 extra ripe bananas mashed
  • 1 large egg
  • ¼ C coconut oil
  • 1 Tbsp 0% plain greek yogurt
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 C packed dark brown sugar
  • 1½ C unbleached flour - can substitute GF flour
  • ⅓ C semi sweet chocolate chunks (optional)
Instructions
For the French Toast:
  1. Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Dip each side of banana bread into the eggs. Cook each side of banana bread for about 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a plate and drizzle with maple syrup, top with strawberries and sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.
For the Banana Bread:
  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a large bowl add all of the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly. Add brown sugar, salt, cinnamon and baking soda and mix. Add flour and mix until ingredients are combined. Fold in chocolate chunks.
  2. Grease loaf pan (we like to use coconut oil spray). Spoon batter into loaf pan. Bake for 45-55 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.

Challah Bread Overnight French Toast

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Can we get a holla for the challah?? Ever since we made this ridiculously amazing challah bread overnight french toast I’ve been wanting to say that!  What is wrong with me? It’s okay, you can keep those comments in your own mind…it’s a loaded question, I know.

So really anything that takes 10 minutes to throw together is a huge bonus.  Once you put everything together you get to wrap it up in some foil and let it sit in the fridge overnight so the liquid is able to really absorb into the bread.  The next morning you pop it in the oven for 40 minutes and you will be treated with a light, fluffy, slightly sweet slice of the best french toast you’ve ever had.  I must admit that we had a couple of recipe fails with this, it definitely took us a few tries to get it right. In our opinion after much trial and error we achieved the perfect combo of not overly sweet, light and moist (yes, I said moist) challah bread overnight french toast.  Oh, and there’s a splash of Gran Marnier added too which is always a bonus!

Stephanie Heymann Photography

One thing to note is our recipe calls for pure maple syrup…we are talking about the real stuff, not the stuff made with high fructose corn syrup.  Spend the extra money and buy 100% pure maple syrup, it’s a HUGE difference in taste and of course any chance to stay away from high fructose corn syrup is a win. Trust us on this one!

This recipe is perfect if you are entertaining and want to serve it for brunch or a family holiday, or if you’re feeding a house full of kids on a Sunday morning. It’s a nice treat and it feeds a lot of mouths! Side note but how much does this amazing drizzle photo make your mouth water? Sorta obsessed with this photo, it makes me want to just drizzle syrup over everything!!

Stephanie Heymann Photography

 

Challah Bread Overnight French Toast
 
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Serves: 10-12
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  • 1 loaf Challah bread, cut into ½ inch slices
  • ¼ C coconut oil
  • ½ C pure maple syrup, plus more for serving
  • 1 C milk
  • 1 C half and half
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 Tbsp Gran Marnier or Disaronno
  • ⅓ C raisins
Instructions
  1. In a bowl whisk coconut oil and maple syrup. Pour into a 9x13 casserole dish.
  2. Use the same bowl to whisk milk, half and half, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, salt and gran marnier.
  3. Layer Challah bread slices in the pan over maple syrup/coconut oil. Sprinkle half of raisins over the first layer and the other half over the second layer of bread. Cover all holes by tearing bread into pieces to fill the holes. Pour egg mixture over bread, coating bread evenly. Sprinkle top with remaining raisins.
  4. Cover with foil and let sit overnight, the bread with soak up the milk/egg mixture.
  5. The next morning remove the french toast from the fridge and preheat oven to 350. Bake for 40 minutes uncovered until golden brown and puffed. Cut into squares and serve with additional maple syrup, fresh strawberries, powdered sugar, etc.