If you are a big fan of Easter French toast, you cannot miss this typical sweet in its pastel version. In the same way as the French toast, this dessert is ideal for recycling leftover stale bread and, in addition, with the same ingredients as the classic French toast, but with fewer calories, since the cake is made in the oven. A sweet-tasting dessert to share that will bring the whole family together on Lenten festivities.

A dessert without any complications that from this article we encourage you to make. Even those who do not have much practice in the world of pastry will be able to make it without any complications. So, if you want to know how to make baked French toast cake, keep reading.

Ingredients to make Torrijas Cake:

• 1 loaf of bread from the day before
• 600 milliliters of milk (2½ cups)
• 1 orange (its skin)
• 1 lemon (its skin)
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 5 eggs
• 150 grams of honey
• For the syrup:
• 2 tablespoons of water
• To sprinkle:
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 piece of ground cinnamon

How to make Torrijas Cake:

1. To make the French toast recipe, first cut the loaf of bread into1/2 -inch-thick slices. Booking.
2. Tip: you should know that the baked French toast with sliced ​​bread is also delicious.
3. You can choose the type of bread that you like the most.
4. Add a saucepan to the heat with the milk together with the orange peel and the lemon peel, trying not to add the white part of the citrus.
5.  Also add the cinnamon stick. Once it starts to boil, remove from the heat, cover with a lid and let it infuse for about 15 minutes.
6. In a bowl, beat the eggs together with the honey until everything is well integrated.
7. Add the eggs and honey to the already warm milk while constantly beating with a manual whisk.
8. Dip each slice of bread in the mixture of milk, eggs and honey.
9. Grease a mold with a capacity for one liter plum cake type that is suitable for the oven and see putting the slices of bread in it.
10. Next, fill the gaps with pieces of bread dipped in the milk and egg mixture.
11. When you have completed the mold with the bread, water everything with the milk and the leftover eggs.
12. Strain it at the same time that you add it to remove the orange and lemon peels and the cinnamon stick.
13. Tip: the chocolate French toast cake is also delicious. If you like, you can add a pinch of chocolate in this step.
14. Put the mold inside a larger one with water to cook it in a bain-marie.
15. Next, bake in a preheated oven at 170ºCwith heat up and down for 35 minutes.
16. Let the torrijas cake cool completely in the mold.
17. Meanwhile, heat 4 tablespoons of honey with 2 tablespoons of water in the microwave.
18. Tip: the French toast cake with curd is also delicious. You can incorporate it into this step if you like.
19. Prick the entire surface of the cold French toast cake with a skewer.
20. Pour the honey with the hot water little by little over the entire surface of the French toast cakes. Help yourself with a spoon so that the cake absorbs all the honey syrup.
21. Unmold the cake and sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and cinnamon to taste.
22. Reserve the French toast cake in the fridge until ready to eat and enjoy this Easter dessert. As you have seen, it is a recipe without any difficulty.