Blueberry Baked French Toast
Blueberry Baked French Toast is an easy breakfast recipe for any day of the week. You’ll love how easy it is to make this overnight french toast casserole.
Servings 8 servings
Ingredients
- 4 cups blueberries fresh or frozen
- 1½ cups milk
- ¾ french loaf or other crusty bread
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1½ tsp lemon extract
- ¼ cup all purpose flour
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar
- ¼ cup cold butter cubed
- -confectioners sugar for dusting- opt.
Instructions
- Coat 9x13 glass baking dish with cooking spray.
- Cut your bread into bite sized pieces & place in the pan covering the bottom.
- Layer in about 2 cups of the blueberries.
- Add another layer of bread followed by the remaining blueberries.
- In a small bowl - whisk together milk, eggs, syrup, lemon extract, lemon juice.
- Pour evenly over bread & blueberries.
- Cover & refrigerate at least 2 hours but as long as overnight.
- When ready - preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small bowl, combine flour, brown sugar & butter cubes.
- Work together with your fingers or a pastry cutter until you reach a coarse crumbs consistency
- Sprinkle evenly over the top of the prepared dish & bake for 35-45 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve immediately - preferably with a little homemade lemon blueberry syrup on top