Strawberry Rhubarb Baked French Toast

By Maria Lichty

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Strawberry Rhubarb Baked French Toast

Our four rhubarb plants are ripe and ready. I can’t keep up. I have this problem every year. I’ve already made Apple Rhubarb Bread and Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler, two of my favorite rhubarb recipes. I also made Strawberry Rhubarb Baked French Toast for breakfast and it was magically delicious.

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I love making baked French toast because you can prepare it the night before and just pop it in the oven in the morning. It also makes the house smell amazing! It is perfect for serving a crowd too. The strawberries and rhubarb make this baked French toast extra special. I love the sweet and tart combo. The cinnamon streusel topping makes the French toast more of a dessert, but I’m ok with eating dessert for breakfast every once in awhile:)

Splurge this weekend and make this Strawberry Rhubarb Baked French Toast. Mother’s Day is on Sunday and this would be a great addition to your Mother’s Day brunch menu.

 

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Strawberry Rhubarb Baked French Toast

Easy baked French toast with fresh strawberries and rhubarb. Make it the night before serving and pop it in the oven for a decadent breakfast treat.
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Ingredients
  

For the French Toast:

Streusel Topping:

Instructions
 

  • Spray a 9 x 13-inch baking pan with cooking spray. Tear French bread into chunks, or cut into cubes, and evenly place in the pan.
  • In a large bowl, mix together eggs and milk. In a small bowl, combine sugar and orange zest. Rub together with your fingers until fragrant. Add sugar mixture to the eggs and milk. Add in vanilla extract and cinnamon. Stir until combined. Pour evenly over bread. Combine strawberries and rhubarb together in a medium bowl. Pour evenly over French toast. Take a spoon and poke the strawberries and rhubarb down into the bread. Cover the pan with saran wrap and store in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.
  • In a separate bowl, mix together flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Add butter pieces and cut into the dry mixture using a fork or your hands. Combine until the mixture resembles sand with a few pea sized chunks. Cover and store mixture in the refrigerator.
  • When youโ€™re ready to bake the French toast, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Remove French toast from refrigerator and sprinkle crumb mixture over the top. Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until the French toast is set and golden brown.
  • Serve warm with maple syrup.

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I'm Maria and my husband is Josh. We share a love of cooking, baking, and entertaining. We enjoy creating recipes that are simple, fresh, and family friendly. We love sitting around the table with good food, good conversation, and good friends and family! Our kitchen is always open!
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  1. I am so planting rhubarb plants this fall. I love all the spring recipes. I think the tart rhubarb would be awesome with the sweet french toast. Nice work!!

  2. Can I swing by and steal some rhubarb? I’ve never made anything with it and this looks sooo good. You won’t miss it will you ๐Ÿ™‚ Have a safe trip home.

  3. Yummy! I love when rhubarb comes into season and I try to make as much as I can with it. This looks like a fun, new recipe.

  4. Love the classic strawberry/rhubarb combo + the baked french toast twist! Brilliant.

  5. Yum! I just love how easy baked french toast is to make. Thanks for posting this recipe.

  6. This is just what I was looking for for mother’s day breakfast to use up the last of my strawberries. Thanks for posting!!

  7. oh this looks so goood!! ๐Ÿ˜€ i recently made a strawberry rhubarb crumble & had rhubarb for the first time. โ™ฅ loved it! so this sounds amazing!

  8. I’d love to have this as breakfast tomorrow morning! Such a delicious treat for Mother’s day!

  9. I’ve never touched rhubarb but Heidi over at 101cookbooks had a recipe for a rhubarb syrup that sounded divine.

  10. Happy Mother’s Day! This french toast would make the perfect brunch ๐Ÿ™‚ PS: I love that you grow your own rhubarb!

  11. I just bought Cookie Cravings on Kindle! I’ve been dying to buy it and $.99 is ah.maze.zing. Now I think I have to start my own Julie-Julie type project with your book. I want to try them all.

  12. This looks so yummy. Strawberry Rhubarb is my favorite pie combo, why not have it for breakfast!

  13. this was delicious! i even stole rhubarb from my neighbor to make it. i used leftover brioche bread (had been frozen for a few months) that was pretty dry, but it absorbed the liquid so it wasn’t all soggy (like some bakes i’ve had). i halved the recipe and made it in a 8×8″ pan since it was only intended to serve 3 people. although i had about half of it left over! it reheated ok, although the streusel is never the same after microwaving.

  14. Oh My! When I saw this post my heart did a little flutter-thing! Rhubarb is one of my favorite spring-time harvests and I’m always looking for new ways to use it…and of course pairing it with strawberries is divine. I am definitely going to be making this for Sunday breakfast ๐Ÿ™‚

  15. I remember waking up as a kid to a house filled with that French Toast smell. Lovely! Thanks for sharing and can’t wait to try this delicious version!

  16. We made this for our Mother’s Day breakfast yesterday and everyone loved it – thanks for the recipe! We loved that you can do most of the work the night before too, makes everything so much more relaxing in the morning. It reminded us more of bread pudding than french toast, so we almost could have had it for dessert instead!
    Just a note that the serving size says 16, which I’m assuming is an error; we got 6 big servings ๐Ÿ™‚

  17. Making this now and house is smelling wonderful. I had frozen strawberries to use up so no rhubarb. Gave it a bit of lemon juice since I had no fresh fruits for zest. Thanks for sharing

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