Easy French Toast Bake with no overnight chilling has cinnamon, brown sugar, and buttery French bread perfect for your family or a crowd.
This Breakfast Recipe has all the familiar flavors of your favorite French Toast, and is designed to feed a crowd all at once. Just like a Sheet Pan Pancakes, this recipe will have your family drizzling warm maple syrup in no time.
EASY FRENCH TOAST BAKE
Easy French Toast Bake takes half the effort of making individual slices of french toast, and this breakfast will still be the perfect warm, inviting, family friendly meal you’ll love throwing together quickly on the weekend.
One of the great things about Easy French Toast Bake, is if you have some cream or half and half in your fridge pretty much everything else you likely have in your pantry. This is a great recipe for using up any bread that is about to go stale, and give it new life as a warm, comforting breakfast.
The warm cozy flavors of this breakfast casserole are perfect for a special holiday breakfast, or you could also make Pumpkin French Toast Bake during the fall! Either way, the crusty and soft French bread will soak up the flavors of brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg and be toasted to perfection with a buttery eggy crust.
Serve Easy French Toast Bake alongside some simple scrambled eggs and Fruit Salad, or make life even easier with an Oven Baked Omelet.
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VARIATIONS ON EASY FRENCH TOAST BAKE
- Bread: Any bread with a nice crust will work well such as sourdough, brioche, baguette, or challah.
- Spices: Add additional favorite warm spices such as clove, ginger, anise, or Pumpkin Pie Spice.
- Protein: Make a sweet and savory French Toast Bake by adding in crumbled bacon or sausage.
Tools Used in the Making of this Easy French Toast Bake:
9×13 Baking Pan: The perfect baking pan, it has high sides and bakes evenly. Plus when you cut into it you get picture perfect squares.
Maple Syrup: You will love serving this with real maple syrup. I keep this brand and Trader Joe’s brand (buy that in store, it is ⅓ the price) on hand at all times if I can.
Nutmeg: The flavor of whole Nutmeg nuts is completely different than the pre-ground variety and adds another dimension to baked goods.
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HOW TO STORE EASY FRENCH TOAST BAKE
- Serve: To keep it fresh, you shouldn’t leave any leftover French Toast Bake at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
- Store: Once it’s cooled, cover the dish or put it in another airtight container. Properly sealed, the breakfast bake will stay good in the fridge for up to a week.
- Freeze: To keep your Easy French Toast Bake longer, store it in the freezer. It will stay good for up to 3 months.
Ingredients
- 1 loaf French bread I also routinely use a loaf of Texas Toast
- 8 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream half and half would work too
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter cold and cut into small squares
Instructions
- Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray and preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, add the eggs, milk, heavy cream, sugar, ½ cup brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Chop the bread into ¾ - 1 inch cubes and put it in the bowl with the egg mixture and toss well until all the liquid is absorbed.
- In a small bowl or a food processor add the flour, remaining brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt and mix.
- Cut in the butter with a fork or pulse in the food processor for 5-10 seconds or until the butter and brown sugar mixture is crumbly.
- Pour the bread and egg mixture into the pan, cover evenly with the brown sugar-butter topping and bake for 45-50 minutes or until the top is crispy and the center is no longer wet.
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Great easy recipe! I halved the recipe and used an 8×8 pan for less people. I love the addition of the crumb topping! It makes it super special!
Came out perfect! My mother-in-law commented on how every recipe she has tried turns out soggy, but not this one for us! Used Texas Toast. So yummy.
Can you make this the day before, and if so do you need to adapt the recipe at all?
Did I miss the temperature to cook it at?
Could I use a dairy free creamer? Something like and almond creamer or should I use cream of coconut instead?
Loved it. The cinnamon crumble on the top makes this dish.
This French Toast Bake is wonderful! I made it yesterday for our Easter Brunch! It was a big hit. I will definitely be making it again. I have made other versions of French toast casserole and been disappointed, as they seem to be soggy. Thank you for this fabulous recipe Sabrina!
Just put it together and put in the fridge and will cook in the morning. I followed the recipe exactly and the bread just turned into mash mush, and I poured half the mixture out . After having to pour out the remaining egg mixture, I added more bread hoping to save it. We will see ? I might just have to make pancakes for our Easter brunch as back up.
Just made – I didn’t have cream so I used sweetened condensed milk in the recipe and hoped for the best. Fresh out of the oven and it’s amazing! Most definitely will make again… I think I’ll try adding some apple next time.
I served this with sliced strawberries and Greek yogurt, and it was phenomenal!
Love this recipe. I often use it to clean out my pantry. Don’t hesitate to use up those last hamburger and hotdog buns that nobody is going to use! You cannot tell the difference.
The best French toast bake, hands down! I use half to 3/4 of a loaf of 5-7 day old brioche bread (about 10 to 12 oz), halve the recipe, use a 8×8 dish, and cut the cooking time by about 5-10 min. Great weekend breakfast treat for a 4-6 person group. Thanks for the great recipe, super simple to whip up!
Hi! Can this be made the night before due to time? Or morning of?
How could I cut this recipe down to serve like 4 to 6 people instead of 12?
Thank you! I searched everywhere for a quick, easy, casserole that didn’t have to be refrigerated overnight…this is perfect!
Thank you Mary!
This recipe is great for my Easter brunch
Please tell me how to reheat my extra full 9×13 pan to keep the moist texture .
Thank you.
Just wondering if you cover when baking?
This recipe is fantastic !!!!!
Love it
I followed the instructions to a T. I got nothing but soggy like bread pudding. It was awful. And I kept it in the oven for 1:10 minutes. Not sure how anyone else is getting this to work.
I’ve found you have to use older bread (5-7 days old) for these kinds on recipes or else it is too mushy. When it is drier, even a bit stale it soaks up the egg better. Maybe that’s why it turned out like that. ?
Bake 45 mins at 350 Adding pad of butter overtop , Uncover 15 mins to makea crunchy top. It is like French toast.
Big hit with company, not much left in the pan. I only refrigerated it 2 hours and I drizzled maple syrup on it when it came out of the oven.
This is absolutely delicious! My whole family loved it. I used Texas toast since that’s what I had, and it worked well. I also let it sit in fridge overnight . Great make ahead breakfast.
how much Texas toast did you use?
This was so good and easy to put together. Husband went for seconds (which he never does!). Added pecans to the topping since we had them. Excellent, easy recipe for guests! Thank you!
Pecan as an addition is a great idea! Sounds amazing!