Overnight baked French toast casserole is warm, comforting and easy to make! Get all the prep work done the previous night and next morning just sprinkle the crumb and bake.
Spiced with cinnamon it’s that comforting breakfast you want to have on a lazy morning!
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Ingredients you’ll need
Here’s what you’ll need-
- 1 French bread (or any white bread)
- 6 eggs
- ½ cup sugar (I used 2 tablespoon less from ½ cup)
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup heavy cream (or half and half)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter (cut into cubes)
How to make overnight French toast casserole
- Slice bread into cubes. Spread bread on the casserole.
- Whisk eggs, sugar, milk, cream and vanilla essence. Pour the mix over the bread and shake it well to ensure all the bread cubes are soaked in the liquid.
- In separate bowl crumble flour, brown sugar, cinnamon powder, salt and butter into crumbly mix.
- Cover both and let it chill overnight in the fridge.
- Next morning sprinkle butter-sugar-cinnamon crumble mix on top.
- Bake in preheated at 350F for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Dust with powdered sugar. Pro-tip: do not use icing sugar because the moment you sprinkle it, it’s vanished. For the look and for better texture on the top using powdered sugar.
- Serve and enjoy!
FAQS
French dry bread are best. Avoid bread that are too soft as it will turn very soggy when egg mix is poured over.
Apart from French loaf you can possibly use cinnamon rolls, croissants, Challah bread, bagels, even biscuits. Digestive biscuits, broken into chunks and spread on casserole with egg-milk-cream liquid to soak it up and crumble on top.
If you are experimenting with biscuits, I recommend you to do the entire prep process just before baking. Don’t make it ahead and in refrigerator overnight.
Yes you can. You follow the same process and the recipe as it. Instead of prepping previous night, chilling in fridge overnight, you make the whole thing in the morning or just when you want to bake. You slice the bread, pour egg-milk-cream-sugar liquid over the top, sprinkle the butter-cinnamon-sugar crumble on top and bake. It should turn out ok I guess.
You definitely can. That’s the goodness of these wonderful cast iron pots and pans you have. They can be used to cook on stove top and also slide them in oven for baking. It does wonders. For the quantity mentioned in the recipe you probably want to split into 2 cast irons (entirely depends on the size of the cast iron pan).
I don’t know about you, but soggy egg-y bread is not my favorite. Few tips that you can use to make your French toast bake non soggy-
After soaking bread in the casserole overnight, you may shake the casserole to bread down any scrambled eggs on the bottom, or else you could transfer into new casserole just before baking. This ensures the egg gets spread out instead of sticking to one portion and making a scrambled egg around that portion.
Use a wide casserole or baking sheet to ensure even browning without getting soggy.
Yes, you can. Do the prep work overnight and bake the next morning as instructed.
If you are thinking of preparing the casserole much ahead i.e more than 8 hours (overnight), remember bread and raw eggs soaking in the bread might not be good after 2 days. Don’t let uncooked eggs and bread sit for longer than 12 hours in the fridge.
Once baked you can store leftovers covered with foil or plastic wrap (to prevent it from drying) and refrigerate it. Use it within a day.
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📋RECIPE: Overnight Baked French Toast Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 French bread ) (or white bread
- 7 eggs
- ½ cup sugar (I used 2 tablespoon less from ½ cup to make it less sweeter)
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup heavy cream (or half and half)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter cut into cubes
Instructions
- Grease a 9 X 13 inch casserole or baking tray with butter.
- Use a serrated knife to cube the bread into one inch pieces and put into the casserole.
- In a big wide bowl beat eggs, sugar, milk, cream, vanilla extract and salt.
- Slowly pour liquid over the bread, evenly over the bread. Cover with cling film and refrigerate it overnight.
- In another bowl crumble flour, brown sugar, cinnamon powder, salt and butter cubes. Let the mixture be crumbly. Cover with cling film and chill it in fridge overnight.
- Take the casserole out of the fridge when you are ready to bake.
- Pre heat the oven to 350 degree F.
- Sprinkle the butter-cinnamon-sugar mix generously over the soaked bread.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes till browned.
- Remove the casserole from the oven. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cut out a portion of it into a serving plate and drizzle some maple syrup while the baked French toast in still warm. Serve immediately.
Comments & Reviews
Mirlene says
My sister introduced me to French toast casserole a couple years ago. I thought she was a genius for making it that way, but for some reason, I could never do it myself. Now I can with this recipe!!!!! I’m not a food expert either, but I would definitely leave it in the refrigerator for 2 days – max. Pinning!!!!!!!
jyothirajesh says
Thank you Mirlene!
Heather says
What a fun and yummy way to switch up a weekend breakfast! My family used to always make a coffee cake for the weekend, so I can’t wait to try this instead 🙂
jyothirajesh says
Oh I love coffee cake! I mean I love everything coffee!! 😀 Thanks Heather!
April says
Yummy deliciousness! I can never get enough of french toast. I had it for breakfast yesterday and today! I normally don’t prep mine because I never plan ahead to make it.
jyothirajesh says
My kids go for second servings when French toast is for breakfast! I get it! I have done once the normal version when I forgot to prep overnight and I had promised my daughter for French toast bake next morning. So I did everything in the morning and baked it immediately. That too turns delicious!
Stephanie says
I love overnight recipes – especially for breakfast! It’s such a time saver! And I love french toast, so this is perfect 🙂
jyothirajesh says
I love overnight recipes too Stephanie! And if I remember to get the prep done the night, I can eat all week long overnight oats, chia pudding, this French toast casserole. 😀
melve says
It’s a good idea, preparing ahead is a big help to the busy mothers. I should have thought of this before. Thank you for sharing.
jyothirajesh says
Exactly, especially when the mornings are mad rush and have little time for all breakfast drama!
Kacie Morgan says
This looks so scrumptious. It’s almost like a fancier version of bread and butter pudding. Yummy!
jyothirajesh says
Exactly! And it’s so much more delicious!! 😀
Camila says
This baked French toast casserole looks super delicious!! I would love to serve this for my next big family breakfast gathering!
jyothirajesh says
Thank you Camila. Hope you give it a try!
Lisa says
I love french toast and the fact that you prep it ahead of time! Great recipe!
jyothirajesh says
Thanks Lisa! Yea I thought finishing off all the prep work the previous night makes life so much easier in the mornings 😀
Stine Mari says
A classic French toast casserole, there’s not much that is better than that on these cold snowy mornings!
jyothirajesh says
Picturing that! Life is good, on such days isn’t it 😛