French Toast Casserole:
This is an easy dish that can be used for any event! The bread literally cost me 97 cents at Wal-Mart on clearance and we already had the other ingredients laying around the house! I needed a breakfast dish ASAP for our Sunday Morning Service at church and I finally came across this one! Feel free to tweak it how you’d like! Maybe you could add some fruit or chocolate chips! This dish was a HIT at our church and there was hardly any left when we went to pack everything up. Many people asked me for this recipe at church, so I figured I would share it with you all!
What You Need:
½ a loaf of French bread, (about 8 oz) cut into cubes
½ cup butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
6 eggs
2 cups milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 teaspoons cinnamon, divided
1 Tablespoon brown sugar, for topping
powdered sugar for topping, optional
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Butter a 13x9 inch baking pan and set aside.
In a small sauce pan, melt butter over medium heat. Once butter has melted, stir in brown sugar until dissolved and mixture is smooth. Pour mixture into the bottom of a 9x13 pan and spread evenly.
Add bread cubes to the pan, spreading over the top of the brown sugar/butter mixture.
In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, vanilla, and 1 tsp of cinnamon. Pour egg mixture over the top of bread cubes, insuring that all pieces of bread are saturated. Sprinkle with remaining 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1 tablespoon of brown sugar.
Bake in preheated oven for 25-30 minutes until top is golden brown. Remove from oven and sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired. Enjoy!
