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This delicious make ahead Dinner Roll French Toast Casserole is perfect for using up leftover rolls or bread. If you’ve ever wondered what to do with leftover dinner rolls, this overnight casserole has a delicious cinnamon strudel topping and is perfect for a holiday breakfast!
This easy breakfast treat is perfect for feeding a larger crowd – I love making it alongside a big batch of this Southwest Breakfast Casserole, Turkey Chorizo or Breakfast Fried Rice.
Why I Love This Overnight French Toast Casserole
Whether I make this ahead of time or the day of, it always turns out delicious!
Enjoy!
– Becca
Ingredients for Dinner Roll French Toast
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
- Bread: Dinner rolls, sweet Hawaiian rolls, french bread – any bread you have will work!
- Milk: This recipe works well with both whole milk and almond milk, so feel free to use whichever you prefer – they both yield delicious results.
How to Make French Toast Casserole
Step 1: Slice bread into 1-inch cubes and place in a greased deep-dish pie pan or baking dish in a single layer.
Whisk together milk, eggs, vanilla, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Pour evenly over the bread, making sure it’s soaked but not overly wet. (Optional: Save a bit of the mixture to add just before baking, if needed. Especially if you’re cooking the next day)
Step 2: In a bowl, mix brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Add butter and combine with your fingers until crumbly. Sprinkle over the casserole. You can bake this right away or cover and refrigerate for a few hours or overnight.
Step 3: Preheat oven to 350°F. Cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes, then uncover and bake 15 more minutes until golden and set in the center.
Step 4: Serve warm and top with maple syrup.
Recipe Tips
- This recipe is super forgiving. You can use almost any type of bread—hamburger buns, leftover dinner rolls, sweet bread, or even regular sandwich slices.
- Make it ahead! Prep it the night before and bake it in the morning, or cook a batch in advance and reheat it the next day.
- Want a smaller version? This recipe also works great as French toast rolls—just spoon the uncooked mixture into a greased cupcake tin.
- Stale bread works too. Some people swear by it! I’ve used stale bread when I had it, but in my opinion, it’s totally optional.
French Toast Casserole FAQs
We love serving this easy recipe with any combination of the following:
– Warm maple syrup
– Cinnamon and nutmeg
– Diced apples
– Blueberries, strawberries, or bananas – really, any fresh berries or fresh fruit will do
– Chocolate chips or sprinkles are fun if you’re celebrating a special day.
– Our personal favorite is peanut butter – we use a natural peanut butter that can be poured over the casserole and it’s so good!
You might have added too much bread – the dryness of your casserole could also have something to do with the type of bread you used. It’s an easy fix – add a splash of milk to the casserole if needed, and give it a few minutes to soak in. Be careful not to add too much, or the casserole might turn out soggy.
My favorite proteins to serve with French toast casserole are this Chicken Apple Sausage Recipe, these Turkey Sausage Patties, and these copycat Starbucks Bacon Egg Bites.
This Dinner Roll French Toast Casserole works with sliced bread, leftover dinner or hot dog/hamburger rolls, and even loaves of french bread or baguettes.
If you tried this recipe for Easy Dinner Roll French Toast Casserole or any other recipe on my site please leave a rating and let me know how it went in the comments!
Dinner Roll French Toast Casserole
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Equipment
Ingredients
Dinner Roll French Toast:
- 1 loaf bread (or leftover bread, dinner rolls, etc)
- 2 cups milk any type
- 3 eggs
- 3 tsp vanilla
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
Cinnamon Streusel Topping:
- ¼ c brown sugar
- ¼ c flour
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 ½ tbsp butter , cold
Instructions
- Slice bread into cubes. 1 loaf bread
- Grease a deep dish pie pan and add bread in a single layer.
- In a small bowl add milk, eggs, vanilla extract, brown sugar, and cinnamon together. Mix well. 2 cups milk, 3 eggs, 3 tsp vanilla, 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Pour the egg mixture over the bread–make sure it's poured evenly over the bread.
- Prepare your cinnamon topping: Mix the brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a bowl. 1/4 c brown sugar, 1/4 c flour, 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Slowly mix in the butter with your fingers, breaking it up and mixing it all together. Don't stress if it's not all melted together–it'll be perfect after you bake it. 1 1/2 tbsp butter
- Sprinkle the cinnamon topping over the uncooked casserole. Cover the casserole with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for a minimum of an hour or as long as overnight, or cook immediately.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Assuming your pan is in the fridge, pull the pan out of the fridge and let warm for 30 minutes on the counter (so you don't break your pan by putting it into a hot oven).
- Bake foil-covered casserole for 45 minutes, then remove cover for last 15 minutes. Once it's golden brown, poke a knife in the middle to make sure it's cooked–it shouldn't feel or look too wet. Your cooking time could vary depending on the depth of your baking dish.
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Why does recipe specify Equipment as “Metal Pan for Oven” but the photos show a glass pie dish? Plus, all the mention of safety concerns about bringing the refrigerated dish to room temp to deter baking dish from cracking when putting it in oven also implies use of a glass dish not metal pan. Is there any difference in oven temp or baking time if using a glass dish vs. a metal pan?
Hi Dichaht! Sorry for the confusion – yes we normally use a glass baking dish for this recipe. You can use a metal dish but the cook time would be different. I’ve changed the equipment from metal pan to glass baking dish so as not to confuse any of our other readers – thanks for bringing this to our attention!
It was very good but it would have been nice if the chilling time were included in the prep time.
Hi Helene, thank you for mentioning this. It’s definitely optional, but the way the recipe was written it made it a little confusing. I’ve clarified the directions a little more by removing that step. :)
If I use cloverleaf dinner rolls, how many should I cube?
Hi Elizabeth, I’m not sure. I’ve never heard of that brand. I’m sure you can eyeball it :)
Could I use croissants instead of regular bread?
I haven’t tried it with croissants but it sounds delicious!