The perfect Mother’s Day brunch! Treat your loved one to breakfast in bed with this delicious Plum & Pear French Toast Bake. While it contains quite a few ingredients and steps, it’s not too complicated to put together and will most definitely impress! We hope you, and those you are sharing it with, love it.
French Toast Bake
Ingredients
Compote
- 2 pears peeled & diced 2cm
- 400 g drained tinned Black Doris plums pip removed & roughly chopped
- 1 Tbsp caster sugar
- ½ cup water
Crumb
- 50 g butter melted
- 1 Tbsp caster sugar
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
- 30 g hazelnuts roughly chopped
- 35 g jumbo rolled oats
- 35 g cornflakes
French Toast
- 400 g brioche loaf sliced 1cm
- 3 eggs
- 300 ml cream
- 2 Tbsp caster sugar
- ¼ tsp cinnamon
Vanilla Yoghurt
- 200 g Greek yoghurt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ Tbsp honey
To Serve
- 1 Tbsp icing sugar optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C (or 160°C fan bake).
- Prep & cook compotePeel pears and dice 2cm. Drain plums, remove pip and roughly chop flesh. Add pears, plum, sugar and water to a large oven-proof fry-pan or skillet (see tip) and place on medium heat. Stir and bring to a simmer. Once simmering, cover with a lid and cook for 8-10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until pears are tender. Set aside.
- Prep French toastCut brioche into 1cm thick slices and cut the slices in half. Set aside. In a medium baking dish, whisk eggs, cream, sugar and cinnamon together.
- Prep crumbMelt butter. Combine melted butter, sugar and cinnamon together in a medium bowl. Add hazelnuts, rolled oats and cornflakes, and toss to coat in butter mixture. Set aside
- Assemble French toastDip brioche slices into egg mixture, turning slices over in the mixture so they are well soaked. Lay slices of soaked brioche on top of compote in pan/skillet, slightly overlapping the slices, until the surface is covered. Sprinkle over hazelnut crumb mixture.
- Bake French toastBake on middle oven rack for about 30 minutes, until golden and French toast is cooked through.
- Meanwhile, make vanilla yoghurtCombine all vanilla yoghurt ingredients together in a small bowl and set aside to serve.
- ServeFrench toast bake with vanilla yoghurt. Dust with icing sugar, if desired.
