Sausage French Toast Bake

This is recipe cribbed from the Fleischman's yeast website, but I've made significant changes to it. For one thing, they call for more eggs and much more butter than I use. They also suggest you mix it all in the pan (in fact, they call this "One Dish Sausage and French Toast Breakfast".) You can do it that way, but I find that it makes the final result stick to the pan annoyingly, so just use a bowl and transfer it to the pan. We all have dishwashers, right?

Sausage French Toast Bake

Batter:

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup whole wheat flour

3 TBS flax meal

3 tsp Rapid Rise yeast

2 TBS sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

2/3 cup milk (very warm, 120 - 130*)

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 egg

1 TBS cold butter, cubed

Topping:

3 TBS cinnamon sugar

2 eggs

2 TBS milk

6 pre-cooked sausage patties (I like to use soy sausage)

3/4 maple syrup

1. Spray 8 x 8 pan with cooking spray.

2. Mix batter ingredients together in a separate bowl

3. Scrape into pan and let sit with you make the topping

4. Cook the sausage patties

5. Mix eggs and milk together

6. Top batter with cinnamon sugar and sausage patties. Pour egg mixture on top.

7. Place pan in cold oven. Set to 350* and bake for approximately 30 minutes, until even brown on top.

8. Drizzle maple syrup on top when serving.