This comforting, sweet cinnamon bread dish is a wonderful alternative to custard-topped French toast. Every Christmas morning, we have it. Serve with strawberry or blackberry preserves and whipped cream.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 50 mins |
| Additional Time: | 8 hrs |
| Total Time: | 9 hrs 5 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 1 casserole |
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter, softened, or as needed
- 1 (16 ounce) loaf cinnamon swirl bread (such as Pepperidge Farm®)
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 4 large eggs
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Butter 6 slices cinnamon swirl bread, then place them butter-side down into a casserole dish. Butter 6 more bread slices and place them butter-side down on the other slices.
- Mix together milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and salt in a bowl until smooth and pour over bread in the casserole dish. Cover and place in the refrigerator for 8 hours to overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Place the casserole dish inside a larger pan; pour water into the outer pan, making sure not to get water in casserole.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted into the center comes out mostly clean, about 50 minutes.
- You can use margarine instead of butter if you prefer.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 368 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 37 g |
| Cholesterol | 127 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 11 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Sodium | 368 mg |
| Sugars | 17 g |
| Fat | 20 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
No changes needed for this very good breakfast casserole! My family loved it, and asked for it again and soon! Thank you!
It was good. I used some apple cinnamon bread we had been given for Christmas that I had frozen and it turned out well. I will use it again.
Absolutely delicious and just sweet enough without any syrups or jellies on it.
I made 2 batches of this exactly as written, one cinnamon and the other pumpkin spice swirl bread. 3 out of 4 people likes it and all had complaints of it being a bit soggy. If I make this again, I will experiment with the cooking method.