French Toast Loaf (not As Eggy)

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1 loaf french bread, at least 20 oz
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste)
• 1/2 cup pecans
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup flour

Recipe

• 1 tear bread into chunks, approximately one inch or so. divide into two bowls.
• 2 beat eggs and milk together. add vanilla and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
• 3 pour egg mixture over first bowl of bread, and evenly coat pieces. you want them coated, not soaked.
• 4 combine a few dry pieces and a few wet ones to make a layer on the bottom of two greased loaf pans or 8x8s. (you will make 3 layers in load pans or 2 in 8x8s.)
• 5 combine sugar, cinnamon, salt, and flour. dust over the first layer. sprinkle with a few pecans. repeat process, ending with cinnamon-sugar mixture and pecans on top.
• 6 dot with butter and drizzle with maple syrup.
• 7 bake loaves at 325 35 to 45 minutes in a preheated oven. bake 8x8s at 350 for 35 minute.