The Colton Family’s French Toast Casserole is special to them because they make it for Easter Brunch every year, as well as the first and last day of school. Read more recipes from the Wildwood Family Cookbook here. Bon Appetit!
PrintThe Colton Family’s French Toast Casserole
- Total Time: 8 hours 45 minutes
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 (8-10 ounce) loaf of crusty French bread cut into bite size pieces
- 2 cups milk
- 6 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Sprinkle of cinnamon
- 1 tbsp brown sugar or as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Grease a 9×12-inch baking dish.
- Stir 1 cup brown sugar and butter together in a saucepan over medium-low heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves into butter, 2 to 4 minutes.
Make sure it’s really combined! Pour into prepared baking dish and spread a 1 1/2 to 2 inch layer of bread pieces over the top. - Beat milk, eggs and vanilla extract together in a bowl. Pour milk mixture over bread into the baking dish and move bread as necessary to ensure all bread is absorbing liquid. Sprinkle cinnamon over the top. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
- In the morning, remove and discard plastic wrap from baking dish and sprinkle remaining brown sugar over the top of the bread mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven until browned and bubbling, about 30 minutes.
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: American
