Cinnamon Blueberry Banana Bread French Toast
An uber dense French toast made from cinnamon blueberry banana bread!
Ingredients
- Banana Bread
- bananas - 7 (large & ripe)
- butter - 0.66 cups (unsalted & melted)
- flour - 3 cups
- sugar - 1.25 cups
- baking powder - 1 tbsp
- kosher salt - 1 pinch
- cinnamon - a few large shakes
- vanilla extract - 1 large splash
- eggs - 2
- frozen blueberries - 2 cups
- butter - 1 smidge (salted)
- French Toast
- eggs - 6
- milk - 0.25 cups
- vanilla extract - 1 large splash
- cinnamon - a few large shakes
Instructions
Banana Bread
- Set aside two cups of frozen wild Maine blueberries.
- Grab two bread pans (not bed pans).
- Pre-heat oven to 350.
- Grab a small microwave-safe bowl.
- Cube up the unsalted butter and melt in the microwave safe bowl.
- Grab a mixing bowl, muy largo.
- Peel the bananas and (HULK) smash them in the bowl.
- Mix the melted butter into the smashed bananas.
- Add flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt to the bowl and give everything a preliminary mix.
- Pour in a heavy-handed splash of vanilla extract.
- Make a little (Sarlacc) pit in the middle of the mixture and crack in two eggs.
- Break up the yolks and mix everything thoroughly.
- Stir in the now slightly-less-frozen blueberries.
- Grease the bundt pan with with the salted butter.
- Transfer the mixture from the bowl to the bread-not-bed pans.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 55 minutes.
- Remove from oven and check with a long skinny wooden chopstick. If the chopstick comes out clean, you're done. If not, stick it back in for another 5 minutes.
- Repeat step 17 if necessary.
- Let bread cool and store overnight.
French Toast
- Crack six eggs into a medium bowl.
- Beat eggs like a rented Bantha.
- Add remaining ingredients (milk, vanilla extract, and cinnamon).
- Beat mixture like a smuggler who drops their shipment at the first sign of an imperial cruiser.
- Set aside the egg wash.
- Pre-heat your non-stick double griddle on medium-high heat (closer to medium).
- Cut banana bread into one inch thick slices.
- Give each slice a nice bath and arrange on heated griddle.
- When egg has cooked through on one side and bread is easily slide-able on griddle, it's time to flip.
- Both sides should be golden and brown (like Wolverine's costume that first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #139), but not burned (like Nobu Yashioka from season one of Netflix's Daredevil).
- Serve with butter and maple syrup.
- Take a nap.
I thought I’d go healthier by substituting in blueberries for chocolate in my usual banana bread. And then I decided to make it less healthy by turning it into French toast.
A few other notes:
- The chopstick test will almost definitely come out with some clingers because of the excessive blueberries and bananas.
- Use salted butter to grease the bundt pan because it adds flavor and texture as I think it helps the outside get a bit crusty.
- Because of the frozen blueberries and abundance of bananas, I ended up having to bake for 72 minutes.
- Banana bread should be made at least one day before you want to make French toast. The bread comes out super moist, so you want it to cool and set before you go about dipping slices into your egg wash.
- Without the foresight that I was going to turn this into French toast, I baked the bread in a bundt pan, which made cutting even slices a big pain in the butt.
- I REALLY enjoyed pairing this French toast with Wood’s bourbon barrel aged maple syrup.