large family food idea–breakfast–baked overnight french toast
I have found that making meals for a large family, really isn’t that much different than making it for a smaller sized family. Around our household, we make a breakfast meal once a week. One thing our family enjoys is french toast. We usually use our skillet and fry the toast on top of that. It can sometimes be a task that takes up much of my meal prep time, especially when you have to go through 2 loaves of bread.
I wanted a simplier way. When trying to plan large family food ideas I wanted to incorporate french toast into the mix, but I wanted it to be easier to make, otherwise I probably wouldn’t want to make it. I have found this baked overnight french toast recipe and we love it. I make it the day before and then refrigerate it. When it is time to cook dinner, we pop it in the oven. No prep for Mom! Very simple to make.
- 1 1/2 sticks butter
- 1 c brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 12 slices of bread
- 2 cups of milk
- 10 eggs
What I do first, since we don’t own a microwave, is I melt my stick of butters in a 9×13 pan.
While that is melting I mix up my eggs and milk.
After the butter is melted, I stir into it 1 cup of brown sugar. Spread it across the bottom of your pan to cover. I then sprinkle it with cinnamon. Place 12 slices of bread on top of the sugar mixture. Put bread 2 slices high in pan.
Pour your egg/milk mixture over top of your bread.
Wrap in foil and then refrigerate overnight. In the morning or evening, depending upon when you are going to serve your meal, place in 350 and cook for 45 minutes. This will puff right up out of the pan. 
To serve cut sandwiches and then invert them onto a plate. No need for syrup, it makes its own. Our size family goes through 2 pans of this meal. Very delicious!
Question for you. Planning on making this tomorrow. My husband does not like soggy French toast. He likes it rather dry. Should I cut a quarter of the milk egg mixture out or is it not that wet of a dish? Hard to tell by the picture. Thanks! Made your pumpkin pie bake again. Huge success!
Love it! Thanks for the recipe ⛪️😀making it tomorrow for my fam before church as well
Your welcome and glad you are going to try it, let me know if they enjoy it!
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Love it! Thanks for the recipe ⛪️😀making it tomorrow for my fam before church as well
I am glad you tried it, let me know if they enjoyed it:)
Do you bake this covered, or do you remove the foil before baking? Can’t wait to try this in the morning. Making it with our homemade gluten free bread.
uncovered:)
Hey there :).
I am currently making this now for my family. Is it supposed to be a little wet and jiggly when it comes out or should I just cool it a little longer? My house smells amazing :)!
I am sorry that I didn’t respond to this asap, I hope you cooked it a little longer, you don’t want it jiggly, I usually cut into it and pull out the middle to make sure it is cooked through. I hope that helps or that you figured that out:)
Can you freeze these? Just found you on YouTube a few days ago…..I love your videos! I am in the process of freezing a couple of weeks worth of food right now. I’m afraid to start out doing more than that. Thanks for the videos! Love that your kids help……mine are not interested in helping AT ALL, that will have to change once I get the hang of things, I don’t want them to be stressed out when I don’t have a routine in place.
It is nice to meet you. I would not freeze this dish it is very much filled with liquid mixture that it would get too soggy. I am glad you are venturing out into the freezing world:) Yes I highly recommend to not include your kiddos until you get the hang of it….because if Momma is stressed, they will want no part of it:) You got this!
made this tonight and put in fridge for the morning. can hardly wait to try it.
Oh yummy! You won’t be disappointed:)
I was trying to find the recipe for Apple Cinnamon Baked French Toast that you made in one of your videos but i couldn’t find it. I am going to wing it and pray that it turns out. Thank you for the idea.
https://plainandnotsoplain.com/baked-apple-cinnamon-french-toast/
Thank you so much.