French toast fans will love this Blueberry French Toast Casserole recipe and it's the perfect brunch or breakfast recipe to serve on special occasions. Made with a crusty day old bread baked in a egg custard base sprinkled with fresh juicy blueberries.
This delicious easy french toast bake is the perfect recipe for Christmas morning, Easter, mother's day brunch, and summer time weekend breakfast gatherings.
❤️ Why you'll love it
✔️ It's not too sweet and is made perfect with just a drizzle of maple syrup.
✔️ It gets nice and crusty on the top of the casserole and is custardy on the inside.
✔️ This easy breakfast recipe is made in one dish that can be made the night before and baked the next morning.
🥘 Ingredients
Stale bread, it can be french bread, challah bread, or italian bread all will work in this recipe.
Cream cheese, this is cut into cubes and scattered over top of the bread in the casserole dish
Heavy cream
Pure maple syrup
Ground cinnamon
Large eggs
Vanilla extract
Fresh blueberries
Coarse sugar crystals (optional)
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray casserole dish with cooking spray. Place ½ of bread cubes in bottom of prepared baking dishl. Add 1 cup blueberries to the casserole and evenly distribute the cream cheese cubes over top of the bread..
- In a medium bowl, whisk eggs, cream, syrup, vanilla, and cinnamon together until well blended. Pour ½ cup liquid over the bread cube mixture.
- Spread the remaining bread cubes in the casserole dish and cover with remaining egg mixture.
- Bake covered with aluminum foil in oven 30 minutes. Remove cover, sprinkle with 1 tablespoon coarse sugar crystals and bake another 10 minutes uncovered, until the top is golden brown. Serve with extra blueberries and pure maple syrup.
🥄 Equipment
13-inch baking dish
Medium bowl
Hand whisk
Rubber scraper
Wooden spoon
🥫Storage
Store leftovers in the fridge up to 4 days and in the freezer up to 3 months.
📖 Variations
- Sprinkle the top of baked casserole with powdered sugar and lemon zest
- Make this casserole in individual portions using 4 ramekins in place of the large casserole dish
- Substitute brown sugar for the maple syrup
💭 Tips
If making this french toast casserole recipe the night before to bake the next day, remove it from the refrigerator and bring to room temperature (about 20 minutes) before baking.
📚 Related Recipes
This Pumpkin Chocolate Bread Pudding makes a delicious fall treat!
Try these Cheesecake Stuffed French Toast Sliders for your next brunch dish.
Waffled French Toast with Meyer Lemon Maple Syrup
A great recipe for fresh strawberries is this Strawberry Stuffed French Toast.
🍽 Serve with...
Serve this baked french toast recipe with pure maple syrup, your favorite fruits,
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📖 Recipe
Blueberry French Toast Casserole
Equipment
- 13-inch baking dish
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Ingredients
- 4 cups cubed Italian bread
- 2 ounces ⅓ less fat cream cheese , cubed
- ⅓ cup heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 tablespoon coarse sugar crystals
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray individual oven safe bowls with cooking spray.
- Place ½ cup of bread crumbs in bottom of bowl. Add ¼ cup blueberries to each bowl and divide the cubed cream cheese between the bowls.
- Whisk the eggs, cream, syrup, vanilla, and cinnamon together until well blended. This should make 1 cup of liquid. Pour ½ cup liquid over each bowl.
- Bake covered in oven 30 minutes. Remove cover and bake another 10 minutes to brown top. Serve with extra blueberries and pure maple syrup.
Sarah Bates says
This looks SO good, Shelby! My boys would definitely love it too. I may be trying this over the weekend! 🙂
Fahad Khan says
More treasure discovered by me!:-)
Patsyk says
I love when the scent of baking goodies takes me back to when I was a child at Grandma's house or even when my mom was baking something wonderful. This looks like a perfect weekend breakfast treat!
Mari says
Very unique! I love the contrasting colors of the berries look very appetizing 🙂
Judee @ Gluten Free A-Z says
How clever! I love the idea of a fruit spring roll.
Cajun Chef Ryan says
Wow, great treat indeed! I can never get enough blueberries, great way to add them in this wonderful dish.
Angela FRS says
Sooooo pretty! Looks like a perfect Saturday morning breakfast.
LaPhemmePhoodie says
My parents have a garden. They often bring me food to play with. So great when that happens. I often have blueberries for breakfast but have yet to incorporate them into a French Toast dish. This one sounds very comforting!
sheila says
Mmm, I want this now! It's 1;45 in the a.m , I think I will have to make a blueberrie run in the morning!
vanillasugarblog says
shel your photos are getting really good. whatever you're doing keep doing it momma.
i wish i didn't have to work so early i want pancakes or french toast for my sunday morning.
briarrose says
Such a great, breakfast dish. Love the color the blueberries provide.
Kathleen says
This really looks TOO delicious!
Mari says
What a mouthwatering breakfast recipe! I am so craving it!
Shelby says
LOL, too funny Katrina...however, Michelle O is from my home area and believe it or not, we have never met, but she does know some of my family! Small world.
honeyb says
I don't normally love stuff like this, I'm just a boring, plain old granola in my yogurt kind of gal. But this one really sold me and looks so good! I discovered it, Shelby!
Is the person commenting just above Michelle Obama? 😉
Michele O says
sounds and looks yummy!
Pegasuslegend says
Fabulous enticing photo's love this one my son will too!