A baked french toast casserole recipe that you can spend 15 minutes preparing, let sit overnight and then bake it in the morning. A delicious breakfast dish to serve out of town guests, or a hungry family!
butter or non-stick sprayfor coating casserole dish
8largeeggs
2cupswhole milk
½cupheavy cream
½cupsugar
½cupbrown sugar
2Tablespoonspure vanilla extract
Topping:
½cupflour
½cupbrown sugarpacked
1teaspooncinnamon
¼teaspoonsalt
1pinchnutmeg
1stickbuttercold; cut into pieces
Instructions
Grease a 9x13 casserole dish with butter or non-stick spray.
Tear or cut the French bread into chunks/cubes, and place on the bottom of the baking dish, spread out the best that you can.
In a separate bowl, mix the eggs, milk, cream white sugar, brown sugar & vanilla.
Pour egg mixture over the top of the bread pieces, trying to coat/cover all of the bread.
Cover the bread with a lid, aluminum foil or plastic wrap, and store in the refrigerator until ready to bake. Preferably overnight.
Topping:
In a medium bowl, mix together the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg in a separate bowl.
Add the pieces of butter, and mix together with either a pastry cutter or a fork (supplementing your hands, combining the ingredients, until the texture is fine pebbles) to create the crumbly topping.
Store topping in the fridge, separate from the bread mixture, until right before baking.
Bake the French Toast:
Preheat over to 350 degrees F.
Sprinkle crumbly topping over the french toast mixture.
Bake uncovered for 1 hour.
Serve with syrup, fresh berries or desired toppings.
Notes
Important to Note: To allow enough time for the bread to soak up the batter, it's ideal to make this dish the day or the night before you plan to serve it. Freezing Instructions: In a freezer-safe container, bake as instructed and then allow it to cool to room temperature. Or, prepare up until adding the crumbly topping. (You will add this right before baking.)How to Freeze: Wrap and/or cover the casserole, preferably in cling plastic wrap -- as we've found this works best for freezing food -- and freeze up to three months.To Reheat: allow it to thaw in the refrigerator before reheating. When thawed, if fully baked, bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until heated through. If unbaked, thaw, top with crumbly topping, and bake as instructed in the recipe card.