Amish and Mennonite people made up my husband’s ancestry. This delectable Amish white bread recipe, which is prepared in a bread machine, is an adaptation of an old Amish recipe.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 55 mins |
| Additional Time: | 8 hrs 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 9 hrs 40 mins |
| Servings: | 10 |
| Yield: | 1 9×13-inch casserole |
Ingredients
- 12 slices day-old bread, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, cut into 1 inch cubes
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 12 eggs, beaten
- 2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup maple syrup
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Prepare casserole: Lightly grease a 9×13-inch baking dish. Arrange 1/2 of the bread cubes in the dish and top with cream cheese cubes. Sprinkle blueberries over the cream cheese, then top with remaining bread cubes.
- Whisk eggs, milk, vanilla extract, and syrup together in a large bowl until well-combined; pour over the bread cubes. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Remove casserole from the refrigerator about 30 minutes before baking. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bake casserole in the preheated oven, covered, for 30 minutes. Uncover, and continue baking until center is firm and surface is lightly browned, about 25 to 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare blueberry sauce: Mix sugar, water, and cornstarch together in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil and cook, stirring constantly, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in blueberries, reduce heat to low, and simmer until all the blueberries burst, about 10 minutes. Stir in butter.
- Serve portions of casserole on plates and pour warm syrup over top.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 485 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 52 g |
| Cholesterol | 279 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 15 g |
| Saturated Fat | 13 g |
| Sodium | 451 mg |
| Sugars | 33 g |
| Fat | 25 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I make it every year for breakfast on Christmas Day, plus a couple of times throughout the year as a family treat. I only use 1 pack of cream cheese and it’s still plenty, my family loves it!!
Super easy and excellent taste. I’ve made this at lease a dozen times! It looks impressive with minimal work!
I loved this recipe! So rich and creamy. French toast as it should be. I have also made it without soaking overnight – the bread soaks up the custard pretty quickly.
I make this every few months for my family. It’s a favorite for everyone. I prepare it exactly as noted but I use a soft French bread and remove the crusts. I also use a tad more blueberries because my measuring cup runs over. I serve the sauce on the side. It’s always a big hit.
Way too much cream cheese. I tossed most of it.
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Used less cream cheese and more than called for and frozen blueberries. No water or cornstarch added to syrup. Worked fine. Defrosted berries for casserole. Topped with sliced almonds. Sourdough bread.
I’ve made this 4 years in a row for Christmas brunch. Half strawberry and half blueberry. I love how I can make it the night before and then just pop it in the oven. Everyone loves it!
It was delicious but I cut the sugar down to 1/2 cup and honestly, it was sweet enough, I have not made it with 1 cup of sugar so I can’t compare but with all the other ingredients, it was perfectly sweet.
This is the second time I am making it. My family loved loved this for breakfast, lunch and anytime they felt hungry for a treat. I made it with blueberries and Italian bread but today I made it with challah bread and sweet black grapes. Next time I’ll try canned apples. So easy and good. Yummy
This recipe is awesome. I make some teeny changes. I only use one brick of cream cheese and use my fingers to pinch of little pieces. I also add cinnamon to the egg mixture. This recipe is bomb as is. I’ve been making it for years for Christmas morning but made it tonight to be a good wife and mom.
Absolutely LOVE this receipe. Always a hit with friends!
I’ve made and enjoyed it! Try it with a vanilla sauce, like Birds custard, instead of blueberry sauce, super easy and excellent too!
Great recipe with a few modifications as everyone is suggesting. I used French bread, half of the cream cheese and double the blueberries. Easy to make the night before. I made it for 6 teenage boys and they gobbled it up.
Make sure you do it overnight. Be sure to have cream cheese spread out. The sauce is to die for, you may want to make extra. It’s on the sweet side, so we served bacon on the side. Delicious!!
It’s on the menu every year!. I use sliced italian or french bread and I spread the cream cheese on each slice. this assures that every slice has a good amount of cream cheese.
This was very simple to make and everyone enjoyed it. I made a few changes. I reduced the eggs, using 10 total which kept it a bit lighter. I used frozen blueberries. They worked out absolutely fine! I whipped 1 1/2 packages of cream cheese with 1/4 cup powdered sugar, put it in a Plastic bag with corner end cut out and distributed the cream cheese mixture over the bread cubes. Then placed the still frozen blue berries over cream cheese. Bakery Italian bread is perfect to cube. I made the sauce as directed with the frozen blueberries as well. One mistake I made was not to grease my baking pan well enough but we managed and it was still very delicious!!
Total bliss! Amazing flavor, everyone loved it!!! Keeping as one of those family brunch must haves every Christmas Eve morning! Kudos to the recipe author!!! I have used French bread and brioche… we preferred the brioche but both were amazing! The blueberry syrup takes it over the top!!
Well, made this for a weeks vacation, in the mountains. I served it for breakfast, and I swear this did not make it to dinner the same night. EVERYBODY LOVED IT. The tart blueberries really cut the sweetness of the sugar. Personally, I thought the amount of cream cheeses was too much, bUT NO ONE ELSE THOUGHT SO, SO IT STAYS IN!. Thanks for getting me rave reviews from my traveling companions! Next time I use ChAllah!
Family favorite. Used a 16 oz loaf of french bread from the Kroger bakery. Sprinkled the cream cheese with cinnamon and powdered sugar as other reviewers suggested. The blueberry sauce made it stand out from other recipes I’ve tried.
Simple & easy recipe! I actually made this for my annual family breakfast and everyone loved it including myself, as there weren’t any left! I will definitely be making this again I may even try it with a different fruit even though the blueberries add the perfect amount of tartness.