French Toast Casserole

4.73 from 11 votes

You'll love this French Toast Casserole because it's a simple yet indulgent treat. This recipe works with any fluffy sweet bread 🥖 or stale bread that has been sitting out for a few days.

Prep Time5

Cook Time45

Total Time50

Course: Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: breakfast, breakfast casserole, french toast, sweet bread pudding

Servings:

Author: The Modern Nonna

Equipment

Baking Dish

Ingredients

6 slices sweet bread enough to cover the bottom of a baking dish (about 250 grams)
4 large eggs
½ cup sugar plus more for sprinkling
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups milk (500ml)
icing (confectioner's) sugar for dusting

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350F (175C).
Tightly line an oven-safe baking dish with slices of sweet bread, making sure there are no visible spaces. If necessary, cut smaller pieces of sweet bread to fill in any gaps.
In a bowl, whisk the eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Add in the milk and whisk really well.
Pour the egg mixture on top of the bread making sure all the slices are covered.
You will notice the sweet bread will rise up from the milk mixture, so take a spoon and gently push down until the bread has absorbed the milk and the bread is no longer lifted.
Sprinkle a little extra sugar on top and put it in the oven.
Bake for about 45 minutes or until golden. Ours took 45 minutes but please keep an eye on it. It will puff up a lot and then deflate when you take it out of the oven.
Let cool completely before dusting with icing sugar and enjoy!
If you don’t want to add icing sugar you don’t have to cool the pudding before serving; the only reason we do this is so that the powdered sugar doesn’t melt right away.

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