Description
This warm, sweet cinnamon roll casserole is a great twist on French toast, kind of like a French toast casserole and custard mixed. We have it every Christmas morning. Serve with whipped cream and either blackberry or strawberry preserves.
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter, or as needed
- 1 (16 ounce) loaf cinnamon swirl bread (such as Pepperidge Farm®)
- 1 ½ cups milk
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Butter 6 slices of cinnamon swirl bread; place butter-side down into a casserole dish. Butter 6 more slices of bread and place butter-side down on top of other slices.
- Mix milk
- sugar
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- and salt together in a bowl and pour over bread. Let sit for 8 hours to overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place casserole dish inside a larger pan; pour water into the outside pan
- making sure not to get water into the casserole.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out mostly clean
- about 50 minutes.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 50 mins
Total Time: 9 hrs 5 mins
Servings: 8