Sausage Breakfast Cake

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups full cream milk
• 1/2 tsp garlic flakes
• 1/2 tsp dried mixed herbs
• 1/2 tsp salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1 stale French baguette sliced into 2cm thick slices
• 500 g pork or beef bangers
• handful of fresh parsley (finely chopped)
• 250 g cream cheese
• 125 g mature hard cheese (eg cheddar, grated)

Instructions

1. 1

   Cook the sausages and slice thinly once they have cooled down enough to handle

2. 2

   Whisk the eggs, milk, and seasonings in a large bowl

3. 3

   Add the bread, sausage, parsley, cream cheese and half of the grated cheddar and mix well

4. 4

   Place in a container with a lid and set aside in the fridge for at least an hour, turning the container over often so that all the egg mix soaks into the bread

5. 5

   Preheat oven to 180 degrees C

6. 6

   Line and grease and a 22cm springform cake tin and place on a baking tray

7. 7

   Spoon the bread mixture into the cake tin, patting the mixture down to compress

8. 8

   Scatter with the rest of the grated cheese and bake for 35 minutes until cooked

9. 9

   If the top needs browning, pop under the grill for a few minutes to brown the cheese

10. 10

    Rest the cake for about 10 minutes, remove from the tin and serve immediately