This Maple Blueberry French Toast Bake is a crowd-pleasing variation of French Toast from our cookbook, What’s for Lunch?. Instead of dipping individual slices of bread into an egg mixture and frying them, we bake up a pan full of bread cubes with a delicious maple custard mixture and blueberries. If you don’t have blueberries, substitute cranberries or diced apples, or whisk 1 cup mashed squash or pumpkin in with the egg mixture!
Preheat oven to 400°F.
Slice cabbage, place onto rimmed baking sheet with oil, season with salt and pepper and bake for 10 minutes.
Add beef to a medium bowl and season with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and bay leaves. Dice onion and mince garlic; add to beef. Add egg, rice and ½ cup sauce, mix well and shape into four 1-inch thick oval patties.
Remove cabbage from oven and mix in 1 cup sauce. Top cabbage with beef patties and pour the remaining cup of sauce over the patties.
Top with tinfoil and bake for 20 minutes. Remove tinfoil and bake for another 20 minutes or until beef patties are cooked through.
Serve and enjoy!
