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Crunchy French Toast With Fruit Topping

Total Time 30 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine French
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

Bacon

  • 1 lb applewood smoked bacon
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar

French Toast

  • 8 eggs
  • 1 cup half and half
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 6 cups cornflakes (crushed)
  • 1 cup sliced almonds
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • 12 slices texas toast

Fruit Topping

  • 1 orange
  • 12 strawberries (sliced)
  • 1/2 pint blueberries
  • banana (sliced)
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • maple syrup

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
  • Arrange bacon on slotted broiler pan. Sprinkle with brown sugar and place in the oven to bake until crisp, 20 to 22 minutes.
  • Preheat a large nonstick skillet or griddle over medium heat.
  • In a shallow dish, beat together with a wire whisk: eggs, half-and-half, vanilla, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon. 
  • In a second shallow dish combine flakes and nuts. Use a potato masher to crunch them up.
  • Add 2 tablespoons butter to warm skillet. 
  • Place a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper near the stove. 
  • Coat 4 to 6 slices of bread in egg, depending on the size of your skillet, then coat the bread in cornflakes and nuts. 
  • Cook slices 2 minutes on each side and then transfer toast to the cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining slices and transfer toast to the oven. 
  • Bake 10 minutes, with already cooking bacon.
  • While bacon and toast are in the oven, juice half an orange. Sliced the rest and other fruit, combine fruit, the juice from the orange, and sugar in a serving bowl mix well and reserve.
  • Remove toast and bacon from the oven. 
  • Warm syrup in a small pitcher in microwave 15 seconds on high. 
  • Serve toast and bacon on plates
  • Pass syrup and topping at the table.