I promised this recipe to a bunch of people last week, and I’m really sorry that I haven’t been able to post it until today. Last week was quite a challenge, as you know if you follow me on social media. (If you don’t, please do here, here and here.)
Anyway, better late than never, as I always say. Here’s a recipe for a super yummy and sweet breakfast treat, Baked French Toast with Cinnamon Sugar Topping. This is perfect with a mug of coffee, so start your day right by brewing some!
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9×9″ glass baking pan with cooking spray or butter. Use unsalted if you don’t want to have a salty crust on your French toast. Then, tear up about 5 cups of bread and arrange the pieces inside the pan. I used an assortment of regular loaf, whole wheat loaf and pandesal. I like to store bread in the freezer, and this dish is a great way to use up that stash.
In a bowl, whisk together 5 eggs (1 egg for each cup of bread), 2 cups of whole milk, 1/2 cup each of brown and white sugar, and 2 tablespoons of vanilla.
Yes, this is another fattening recipe, I’m afraid.
Pour the custard over the bread, making sure that each piece is moistened. I like to press the bread down, bringing some of the liquid up to the top. Refrigerate for a few minutes and allow to soak.
While this is happening, combine 1/3 cup each of flour and brown sugar , plus 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon of salt in a separate bowl.
Take a stick of cold butter (must be cold, this is important), and mash it into the flour and sugar mixture until little pebbles are formed. Try your best to keep this cold, otherwise you will end up with boulders instead of pebbles. Again, if you don’t want this to be too salty, use unsalted butter. Or you can also opt not to add more salt to the mix.
Sprinkle topping over the entire casserole. Then, pop in the oven to bake. If you want the finished product to be soft and squishy, keep this in the oven for 30-35 minutes. For a more firm, slightly dryer French toast casserole, bake for 40-45 minutes.
That’s it! This is really nice eaten warm, but also good when cold. Next time, I’ll try to make a version with apples in it. Yum! Oh, one last note, this recipe is a cross between The Pioneer Woman, Rachel Ray, and one more recipe I found online that I cannot remember anymore. Enjoy!
- 5 cups torn up bread
- 2 cups whole milk
- 5 eggs
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 tbsp vanilla
- 1 stick butter
- 1/3 cup flour
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease the bottom and sides of a 9x9" glass baking pan with butter or cooking spray. Arrange the torn bread pieces in the pan.
- In a bowl, make a custard by whisking together the milk, eggs, sugars and vanilla.
- Pour custard over the bread, making sure that each piece is moistened. Refrigerate and allow to soak. You can actually prepare ahead up to this point and let the casserole soak overnight.
- Combine flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt in a bowl.
- Mash cold butter into the dry ingredients using a fork to form pebbles.
- Sprinkle the topping over the soaked bread.
- 30-35 minutes if you want a soft and squishy consistency, 40-45 minutes if you want your French toast to be more firm.
- Enjoy!
Wow! You’re so generous when it comes to sharing your own recipes! And that one looks tasty! I gotta share this to my mom. She loves to cook too! I guess all moms do. Haha! 🙂
I was looking forward to this recipe! I have a similar one from Paula Deen that we LOVE in this house. It uses day old french bread and you can actually set it the night before so all you have to do is pop it in the oven after you sprinkle on the streusel topping. Thanks Pat for sharing 🙂
Yummy. Will definitely try this soon! 🙂
Looks so yummy. Daddy is baking using our oven toaster. Yesterday he baked ready mixed brownies for our son’s baon. We’ll be buying a real oven soon and will definitely try this 🙂
Oh my gosh! We love baked french toast here at home! This looks delish, Patty!
Thanks for the recipe. I’ll ask my sister to bake this one hahaha.
Oh! The perks of having an oven. Oh how I love to do this!
binabasa ko pa lang tumataas na sugar ko… thanks for sharing this recipe definitely saving this and will try to recreate this.
Thanks for sharing this recipe. I might try this one day.
I love French toast!! and i missed it.. I’ve always amazed on how you give your recipes! Love it!!
I remember when i was so young. I love reading recipe. I try this one but it doesn’t give me what i want..hahahha. I was too young at that time. But now for sure i can make it correctly.
i love making these 😀 soo yummy and easy to make my little boy love these recipe ..
The result looks so delicious! Of course the only way to know if a recipe is effective is when the reader gets to try it out and perform the steps.
It looks yummy, Mrs. C 🙂
The boys approve! 😀
Yey! I’m saving this recipe 🙂 Thank you so much. I need this to add slabs of fat on my already sticking mommy pouch. Hahahaha. Yum!
Hahaha! Sorry it took a week before I got this out! Hectic much! Let me know when you get to try it okay? 🙂