Macadamia Banana French Toast Recipes

MACADAMIA FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Arrange bread slices in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. In a bowl, whisk the eggs, orange juice, milk, sugar, vanilla and nutmeg until blended; pour over bread. Cover and refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight., Pour butter into a 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Transfer bread slices to prepared pan; sprinkle with nuts. Bake, uncovered, at 400° for 20-25 minutes or until bread is golden brown. Dust with confectioners' sugar and serve with syrup if desired.

BAKED BANANA MACADAMIA FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Grease six (6 ounce) ramekins with butter. Place in baking dish (I used two round cake pans).
• Place half the bread in the ramekins.
• Top the bread with banana, macadamia nuts, and cream cheese, dividing evenly between each dish.
• Cover with remaining bread.
• In separate bowl, whisk eggs, half and half, vanilla and maple syrup until well combined. Slowly pour over each ramekin, dividing the liquid mixture evenly between each dish. You might have a small amount of liquid left over, but try to get as much as possible into the ramekins.
• Cover baking dish(es) tightly with plastic wrap, weigh down with a heavy plate to smash the bread into the liquid, and refrigerate over night. Note: some of the liquid will spill out into the baking dish the ramekins are placed in.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• If any of the liquid mixture spilled over, remove the ramekins from the baking dish and carefully pour anything that spilled back into the ramekins. Return ramekins to baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes or until golden brown.
• To serve, top with additional maple syrup or dust with powdered sugar.

MACADAMIA-BANANA FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475 degrees.
• Butter well 2 large baking sheets.
• In blender or food processor add one banana, milk, half the chopped nuts, vanilla and cinnamon, blend until well mixed.
• Pour into large, shallow dish.
• Dip bread slices into mixture until well absorbed on both sides.
• Arrange on well-buttered baking sheets. Bake until golden. About 5 minutes.
• To serve, slice diagonally and dust with powdered sugar. Top with remaining sliced banana and chopped nuts.

BANANA MACADAMIA NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350º.
• Grease and flour a loaf pan.
• In a bowl, mix butter and sugar until creamy.
• In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt.
• Blend dry ingredients with creamed butter/sugar mixture.
• Add mashed bananas, eggs and nuts.
• Pour into loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a knife comes out clean.