📋 Overnight Carrot Cake French Toast Casserole Recipe
This easy Overnight Carrot Cake French Toast Casserole is made with healthy eggs, pineapple, walnuts and pureed carrots (in the form of baby food so it's quick and easy to make) but still tastes like you're eating carrot cake for breakfast! It's the perfect Easter breakfast casserole recipe.
Course Breakfast, brunch
Cuisine American, Canadian
Keyword carrot cake, casserole, french toast, overnight
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Generously spray a 9 X 13 casserole dish or baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
Arrange ½ the loaf of slices of bread in 2 rows, overlapping if need be, in a casserole dish.
In a large bowl, combine the eggs, half-and-half cream, drained, crushed and squeezed pineapple (make sure you squeeze as much liquid out as possible!), pureed carrots (baby food), brown sugar, white granulated sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and maple syrup. Then beat with a whisk until blended thoroughly.
Pour ½ the liquid mixture over the bread slices, making sure all are covered evenly with the cream-egg mixture.
Then add the rest of the bread.
Pour the remaining half of the liquid over the bread slices. Sprinkle finely chopped walnut evenly over soaked bread slices.
Cover with foil and refrigerate overnight (about 8 hours)
The next day, preheat oven to 350 degrees F (176 degrees C ). Remove from refrigerator, leave the foil on and bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes.Â
Remove foil and return to oven for an additional 15 minutes. Meanwhile prepare glaze.
Cream Cheese Glaze
Beat softened cream cheese with a hand mixer until smooth.
Gradually add powdered sugar/icing sugar until incorporated. Then add milk and vanilla.
Spread glaze over warm casserole with a spatula.
Garnish
Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Pat the pineapple rings dry with paper towel and place on top of casserole, as shown.
Dot the insides of the pineapple rings with whipped cream (* I use a whipped cream from a spray bottle)
Use a vegetable peeler to make thin ribbons with carrots, then add 2-3 on top of whipped cream.
Add few pieces of chopped walnuts.
Serve with additional syrup and whipped cream, as desired.
Notes
Make ahead:
This can also be reheated and served later. If you are taking it along to a gathering or potluck make sure you bake it in a microwaveable casserole dish (so it can warmed up)!
You'll want to add the glaze and garnishes AFTER you reheat it
And be sure to bring along additional maple syrup and whipped cream to serve with it!
Freezing:
You can freeze leftovers! I froze my leftovers of this recipe, fully garnished, then heated up a piece for 1 minute and 30 seconds. The texture was a little more moist so I wouldn't recommend this for serving initially, but it's fine for leftovers.
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Nutrition Facts
📋 Overnight Carrot Cake French Toast Casserole Recipe
Amount Per Serving (1 slice)
Calories 308Calories from Fat 81
% Daily Value*
Fat 9g14%
Saturated Fat 1g6%
Cholesterol 131mg44%
Sodium 269mg12%
Potassium 147mg4%
Carbohydrates 46g15%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 22g24%
Protein 10g20%
Vitamin A 230IU5%
Vitamin C 0.1mg0%
Calcium 60mg6%
Iron 2.4mg13%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.