Epic French Toast

First let me start by apologizing to all of you about my self imposed quasi blogging retirement. It was surely not by choice. My confinement, er, retirement, just so happened to coincide with the kids summer break and JT being out of state for the remainder of the summer. This summer was all about survival mode, and by that I mean the kid's surviving and me hanging on to what shred of sanity I had left. Fast forward to this weekend. It was my Saturday with the boys. Normally, they spend Saturday morning with JT (who is an omnivore) doing who knows what. I have a don't ask, don't tell policy because I know nothing good will come from me knowing. Anyhow, on this particular Saturday morning the boys were with me and I decided to take them out to breakfast to a local vegetarian restaurant. We were in luck, they had cinnamon French toast on the menu. Unfortunately, said French toast did not live up to the hype and I learned that they preferred Omnidad taking them McDonalds. Not to be outdone and let them think that vegan French toast is crap, I decided that I would make the most epic vegan French toast to ever cross their paths for dinner tonight. For those of you who have had the pleasure of me cooking for you (yeah, not cocky at all), you know that I only make vegan food that make omnivores not miss animal based food at all. And with that hyped up lead in, I give you Chubby Vegan Mom's French Toast Casserole...

Vegan French Toast Casserole Bake
(Serves 6-8)
Ingredients:
1  stick of butter (melted)
1 1/2 cups vanilla almond milk
3/4 cup brown sugar (and a little more for sprinkling purposes)
1 loaf of deliciously perfect bread, sliced thick (I used Trader Joe's Multigrain bread)
1/4 block of silken tofu
1 TBS vanilla extract
Cinnamon (for sprinkling purposes)
Powdered sugar (for sprinkling purposes)
Maple Syrup (for delicious purposes)

Directions:
Cut your bread into thick slices (we did about an inch thick) and lay out the pieces on the bottom of a sprayed casserole dish (I used a 9X9 glass one). Melt 1/2 stick of butter and stir in brown sugar. Once all the sugar is dissolved, pour the butter goop on top of the bottom layer of bread. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

In a small bowl, mix the melted half stick of butter, almond milk, vanilla extract and silken tofu. Blend in a food processor until all the little tofu lumps are gone. Place the rest of your bread on top of the gooey sugar and butter covered layer, then drizzle the butter, milk, vanilla and tofu mix over the entire casserole.

Now, I know this isn't exactly the food that good health is made of, but it will dissuade any vegan naysayers. Next time I promise I will health it up for you, but for now enjoy this food bomb gift.