Friday, December 13, 2013

French Toast Casserole Muffins


French Toast Casserole Muffins {recipe} - great for re-purposing bento scraps! - mamabelly.com

Packing lunches and making bentos every day leaves me with a lot of bread scraps every week. What to do with them? I save them in a big gallon size Ziploc bag in the freezer!

French Toast Casserole Muffins {recipe} - great for re-purposing bento scraps! - mamabelly.com

Is that really worth it? Yes! Yes it is because I love making French Toast Casserole {Recipe HERE}

French Toast Casserole Muffins {recipe} - great for re-purposing bento scraps! - mamabelly.com

But this time around I had so many bread scraps I had enough for a casserole and some. 

French Toast Casserole Muffins {recipe} - great for re-purposing bento scraps! - mamabelly.com

I had a whole large bowl worth of bread scraps. Enough for another dish. I decided to simply make muffins with the left overs with a few changes to my original casserole recipe.

French Toast Casserole Muffins {recipe} - great for re-purposing bento scraps! - mamabelly.com

French Toast Muffins with Cinnamon Sugar were the result!

French Toast Casserole Muffins {recipe} - great for re-purposing bento scraps! - mamabelly.com

A delicious way to re-purpose those bread left overs or a forgotten slightly stale loaf of bread in the back of your pantry!

French Toast Casserole Muffins {recipe} - great for re-purposing bento scraps! - mamabelly.com


Ingredients:
  • 5 cups of left over bread (about one gallon sized Ziploc bag full) - cubed
  • 4 beaten eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups of milk
  • 2 tablespoons home made vanilla sugar (or substitute sugar + 1/4 teaspoon more vanilla)
  • 1/3 cup of pancake mix
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • cinnamon sugar to taste
  • if desired butter for crispier muffins

Instructions:
  • Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
  • Rip or cut all bento bread scraps into same size small cubes.
  • Spray muffin tin with oil or use aluminum or silicone muffin cups (paper muffin cups will get soggy!)
  • In large bowl mix eggs, milk, 2 tablespoons of vanilla sugar, and vanilla together.
  • Then add 1/3 cup of pancake mix and mix well until only a few lumps are left.
  • Carefully add the liquid to the bread cubes and coat well ( I use my hands to make sure it is evenly coated).
  • Let bread mixture sit for one minute.
  • Spoon with a tablespoon into muffin cups. Fill about 3/4. DO NOT OVERFILL! They will rise!
  • Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar to taste and add a small piece of butter on top if you like your french Toast muffins to be crispy on top (can be omitted).
  • Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 - 20 minutes or until brown and crispy.
  • I serve mine with applesauce or fruit (or even a drizzle or maple syrup).
ENJOY!

14 comments:

  1. These look simply delicious! I must try them!!

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  2. Oh yes, this is on the list to make for sure! Tomorrow's breakfast with snack for later lol! Pinned :)

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  3. Oh my goodness, these look amazing! Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Yum! So happy that Yumbox lead me to your site! I'm going to go make these right now! Even my picky eater will eat these! (She loves french toast!)

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  5. Can these be frozen and re heated

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    1. I am sure, Amy! We never have any left to try this out ;)

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  6. Thanks for sharing this delicious recipe! AllFreeCasseroleRecipes.com has featured it on our blog, Recipe Chatter. Feel free to check it out and share: http://www.recipechatter.com/cute-casseroles-muffin-tin/

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