mid-week meal share: cinnamon roll french toast bake

It's a "tasty breaksfast" recipe! Tasty recipe being in quotes because of how ours turned out haha, not because that was my source. Anyhoo, here's what we had for a late breakfast today! Cinnamon roll french toast bake!

*Hooray for a fancy picture post! One of my coworkers let me borrow a fancypants camera lens to see if it's something we're going to splurge on or not, so beware for my corny attempt at food blog quality pictures!*

Cost effective: yes, most of these items are things already in your pantry.

Easy to concoct: cut, whisk, pour.

Nutritious: if you're an elf.

Here's what you'll need:

Yepp, I bumped into the cutting board as I was trying to take a picture but in keeping with the theme of the blog, I left it. Shit happens.

per the recipe:
2 cans of cinnamon rolls
6 eggs
½ cup of milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup maple syrup

per me:
2 cans of cinnamon rolls (the skinny, 8 roll size)
6 eggs
½ cup of milk
2 tbsp vanilla extract (OOPS)
2 tbsp cinnamon sugar

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
 
2. In a large measuring cup I combined the eggs, milk, vanilla and cinnamon sugar. I always try to do this so I'm not dirtying a bowl OR making a mess by trying to pour liquid out of a container that doesn't have a proper lip. I don't even know if it's called a lip in the first place? A spout? Fuck.

3. Open up your cinnamon rolls and begin cutting them into bite sized pieces and set aside the frosting. This seemed like a sinful act at first. Cutting up precious cinnamon roll dough?! When I opened up the can I thought I grabbed bacon bit rolls by mistake. Like, right?

 4. Melt your butter and pour into a 13'x9' dish.
5. With the help of an eager four year old, place your cinnamon roll bites into the buttered dish. Both of these assistants are available. Please text or call if you're interested in a booking.

                         

 6. Once you have a layer of cinna-roll-bites in your dish, pour egg mixture evenly on top. (This is also when you'll add the maple syrup if you're following the original recipe)

7. Place in oven for 25 minutes.
 8. Once it's hot and fresh out of the oven, add the frosting on top!

9. Enjoy (hopefully)!

So ours did not turn out so brilliant. I thought at first it was due to my error in misreading tsp for tbsp for the vanilla, but I left out an entire cup of maple syrup so I don't think it would be due to that. Either way, the bake didn't seem to turn out soggy in the video but ours were disgusting on the underside. It wasn't necessarily soggy but there was a definite layer of egg on the bottom, which is something I should have anticipated, but didn't. Of course, I took this personally. Luckily I had two kids that will eat most anything that has frosting on it.

Piper is clearly in breakfast bliss.

It would probably kill Kennedy to just smile normally once for the camera, but hey she was asking for seconds so I wasn't about to argue with her.

I was able to make it more edible by scraping off the bottom layer (I gave it to the girls after doing this).

My LOL moment in preparing this dish was when I asked Brendon to help me.

Blurry? Yeah, I was too busy cracking up.

See that shit eating grin? Yeah. I grabbed out a small bowl to melt the butter in. I asked, "Hey would you mind getting the glass baking dish from the cupboard, and grabbing the butter out of the fridge for me?" He obliged, and then I said, "Thanks, and when you're done could you put some butter in there and throw it in the microwave?" *pointing to the small bowl I had already pulled out*

Again, he kindly said yes. When I turn around from bite-sizing the cinnamon rolls, I notice that the bowl was still empty so I ask where Brendon put the butter.

Bahahaa, I didn't realize he didn't see my motion towards the small bowl so the entire baking dish ended up being placed in the microwave.


So again, if you're going to try this one, I'm not sure how to alter the recipe. Adding less egg mix? Cooking longer? Who knows. Let me know if you figure it out, please.



Basically it was french toast quiche.
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