French Toast Bake with Cinnamon Streusel

This straightforward French toast bake is ideal for holidays and easy sufficient for an each day breakfast. Make it the night time earlier than and bake within the morning!

Prepare for the yummiest French toast bake ever! This pleasant model has a custard-y (however not soggy!) French toast base topped with a candy cinnamon streusel. It’s superb!

Simple French Toast Bake

I’m at all times a bit doubtful in the case of French Toast, as a result of I’m mentally and tastefully allergic to soggy bread.

Nonetheless, I’ve realized that I can actually love a mushy, custard-like French Toast casserole if it is usually sturdy with the right ratio of bread to liquid.

As a way to obtain the right baked French Toast with nary a soggy bread backside in sight, listed below are some suggestions:

1. Persist with the egg/milk/bread pointers within the recipe.
2. Refrigerate the casserole for at the very least 4 hours or as much as 12 hours.
3. Bake even just some minutes longer than you would possibly assume.

Now, for those who don’t thoughts extra-soft French Toast, by all means, do your French Toast thang and alter as wanted. However in case you are like me and wish all of the happiness of French Toast with out the soggy bread issue, all the small print within the recipe will assist you get there.

The Greatest Bread for French Toast Bake

For this recipe, you need about 10 to 12 thick slices of bread. By thick, I imply about 1-inch slices. And by bread, I imply any of the next varieties:

• French bread
• cinnamon or cinnamon-swirl bread
• brioche bread
• Texas Toast
• croissants

My disclaimer for the croissants are that they gained’t take in the liquid fairly in addition to they different forms of bread and will lead to a softer French Toast casserole (however the trade-off is a decadent, buttery French toast layer that’s terribly scrumptious).

Cinnamon Streusel on Prime

The bottom of the French toast bake has a touch of sweetness.

The cinnamon streusel is a little more candy, however not overly so.

The mix is a breakfast bake that’s candy sufficient, for my part, to forego the necessity for syrup.

Nonetheless, in case your definition of sweetness and my definition of sweetness differs (and it possible will 😉), you may simply modify the quantity of sugar within the egg combination to sweeten up the casserole a bit extra.

Or, serve with a drizzle of syrup or dusting of powdered sugar.

A Excellent Vacation Breakfast

As a result of this breakfast dish could be (and must be) assembled forward of time, it makes an important choice for when you’ve got firm or you might be low on time however want sort of a “huge deal” breakfast.

For somebody (me!) that hasn’t been the most important French toast fan up to now, this baked French toast is a game-changer. The buttery candy crunch of the streusel with the mushy, creamy French toast is phenomenal.

I really like serving this French toast bake with a smattering of recent berries. It’s an additional particular breakfast with minimal effort, and I can’t assist however smile about that.

French Toast Bake with Cinnamon Streusel

Yield: 8 servings

Prep Time: 25 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time: 1 hour hr

Whole Time: 1 hour hr 25 minutes minutes

French Toast:

• 10 to 12 thick slices French bread, cinnamon bread, brioche bread or Texas Toast (see observe)
• 5 massive eggs
• ¾ cup milk
• ¾ cup heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ⅓ to ½ cup granulated sugar
• Pinch desk salt

Cinnamon Streusel:

• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup packed mild brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon floor cinnamon
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons butter, melted
• Contemporary berries, powdered sugar, syrup, for serving (non-compulsory)

• Flippantly grease a 9X13-inch baking pan. Lower the bread into 1-inch cubes (kind of; it would not must be precise). You will need about 8 to 9 cups of evenly packed bread cubes. Scatter the bread cubes within the ready pan. They will not essentially be in a single layer, however they need to be evenly distributed.

• Mix or whisk collectively the eggs, milk, heavy cream, vanilla and salt. Pour the combination evenly over the bread.

• Cowl the dish and refrigerate at the very least 4 hours or as much as 12 hours.

• For the streusel, in a small bowl, stir collectively the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Add the melted butter and stir till the butter and dry elements are evenly combined and small clumps type. Refrigerate till able to bake the French toast.

• Preheat the oven to 350 levels F.

• Sprinkle the streusel evenly throughout the highest of the French toast. Bake, uncovered, for 55 to 60 minutes (kind of, relying on how “properly completed” you need the French toast). If the topping begins to brown too shortly whereas baking, place foil loosely throughout the highest of the pan and proceed baking till the French toast is finished to your liking.

• Serve heat with recent berries, a sprinkle of powdered sugar and/or a drizzle of syrup.

Bread: you’ll want about one medium-size bread loaf (18 to twenty ounces) for this recipe. If the bread has a thick, laborious crust, trim it away earlier than slicing into cubes. 

Serving: 1 serving, Energy: 298kcal, Carbohydrates: 31g, Protein: 6g, Fats: 17g, Saturated Fats: 10g, Ldl cholesterol: 158mg, Sodium: 152mg, Fiber: 0.3g, Sugar: 24g

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Recipe Supply: from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe