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Bagel French Toast Bake

A puffed golden baked custard of bagel pieces with pockets of cream cheese and jam melting through.

Bagel French Toast Bake, plated and ready to serve
Serves
6
Total time
60 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$7.41

Ingredients

  • 4 bagels
  • 5 large eggs
  • 2 cup whole milk
  • 6 oz cream cheese
  • 6 tbsp strawberry jam
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 4 tbsp pure maple syrup(optional)

Method

  1. Butter a 9x13 dish. Cut the bagels into 1-inch cubes and spread them in it.

  2. Dot the cream cheese in small pieces among the bagel cubes, then dot the jam in the same way so both are distributed rather than layered.

  3. Whisk the eggs, milk, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and salt together and pour it evenly over the top.

  4. Press the bagel down into the custard with a spatula, cover, and refrigerate at least an hour or overnight. Bagel is dense and needs the time to soak.

  5. Heat the oven to 350F. Bake uncovered 40 to 45 minutes, until puffed and set in the middle and browned at the edges.

  6. Rest 10 minutes so it settles, then serve with maple syrup.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£36.62£6.1010 of 10 ingredients
Australia$75.17$12.5310 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$85.95$14.3310 of 10 ingredients
Canada$101.94$16.9910 of 10 ingredients
United States$44.47$7.419 of 10 ingredients
Greece47,32 €7,89 €9 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٤٠١٫٢٨ ج.م.‏‏٢٣٣٫٥٥ ج.م.‏9 of 10 ingredients
Spain26,88 €4,48 €9 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$554.46$92.419 of 10 ingredients
Germany20,36 €*3,39 €5 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 27,39*€ 4,575 of 10 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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