Chocolate Croissant Breakfast Bake – buttery croissants, cream cheese, sugar, eggs, milk and chocolate. Can assemble and refrigerate overnight. This is incredibly delicious! Can eat for breakfast or dessert. Perfect for Christmas morning!!
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Pin This RecipeI can not begin to put into words how delicious this Chocolate Croissant Breakfast Bake tasted. It was hands down one of the best sweet breakfast bakes I’ve ever eaten. Buttery croissants, cream cheese, sugar, and chocolate – how could it not be amazing?!?!?! You must try this ASAP! I promise you will love it.
Now, let’s talk about croissants. The picture above is a croissant. You find them in the bakery at the grocery store or your local bakery. This recipe does NOT use refrigerated crescent rolls. Croissants and crescent rolls are NOT the same thing. Please make a note to use croissants that you buy at the store.
This casserole can be made the night before and refrigerated overnight. This would be perfect for Christmas morning! I love make-ahead recipes, especially for the holidays! Easy preparation and easy clean up are a must this time of year!
We ate this for breakfast, but it is also great as a dessert. This recipe is also easy to half and bake in a 9×9-inch pan if you don’t need the whole recipe. We preferred to serve this slightly warm. If you are doing this for dessert, it might be good with a big ol’ scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Chocolate Croissant Breakfast Bake
Ingredients:
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly spray a 9×13-inch pan with cooking spray.
- Place croissant pieces in prepared pan. Sprinkle with chocolate chips.
- Beat cream cheese in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add sugar, eggs, and vanilla and mix until well blended. Add milk and mix until combined. Pour evenly over croissant pieces.
- Let stand 20 minutes or cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Bake uncovered for 35 to 40 minutes or until set in center. Serve warm.
Notes:
Please note that this recipe used already prepared croissants from the bakery, NOT refrigerated crescent rolls.
To quickly soften the cream cheese, microwave it for 20 or 30 seconds.Steph
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This was easy and delicious. You could change the chocolate chips for blueberries or apples but it was wonderfully decadent
Can you make it with something in substitute of the cream cheese?
Any changes and substitutions to the recipe would be up to you.
My kids didn’t want to wait overnight. So I let it sit for 20 mins then backed it, but it looks runny at the bottom. Any suggestions?
It needs time for the croissants to soak up the liquid before baking. Next time let it sit longer before baking.
Where do you get the mini croissants??
In the bakery section at the grocery store.
Has anyone used fresh Blueberries? Would be great for Sunday breakfast camping!
We have a Blueberry Version here: Blueberry Croissant Breakfast Casserole
Just wondering if anyone has tried this with a sugar substitute??
I see you use already baked croissants but I only have refrigerated ones. Can I bake them and use them. Would they be too soft and would I need to let them become a “day old” croissant? Thanks.
I have only made the recipe as written, so I can not say how your changes will turn out. My guess is that if you baked the croissants and cut them up, it would be fine, but I can not say for sure.
Looks awesome. Trying to make for work breakfast tomorrow morning. Plan to bring in a Pyrex with hot pad beneath. Would it hurt texture or taste to melt the chocolate chips instead of just sprinkling in?
Being gluten free, what’s a good sub for croissants?
Can I add fruit? Like dried cranberries?
you can add anything you want
What milk do you use 2%,1%, can you use heavy cream?
Whole, 1% or 2% milk is fine. I’ve never made this with heavy cream.
Have you tried with nut milk, almond milk?
I only cook with real milk, so I don’t know how it turns out with fake milk.
Made this following the recipe, it was delicious. Made another time with a sprinkle of cinnamon and cinnamon chips, was also delicious. So so good!!
Do you have a recipe for homemade croissants? We cannot do store bought because of the cross contamination risk for my peanut allergy son. This looks yummy.
I do, but it is extremely complicated and requires 3 days to make.
Do you use powdered sugar or regular sugar?
granulated white sugar
I have prepared this at least 4 times now and get the same results everytime! Everyone says it’s the BEST thing they’ve ever tasted! Thank you so much for this recipe!
SO glad everyone enjoys it!!
Have you tried it with cinnamon added? I want to try your exact recipe first, but I was thinking cinnamon might be tasty !
Sounds delicious!
I make breakfast for church volunteers each Sunday. Was taking the empty casserole dishes recently thru the foyer and walked into applause because of this awesome dish! I did use a little less sugar because of a combo of semi and milk chocolate chips. Today I tried 1/2 Reese’s PB chips with the chocolate chips and everyone was very pleased!
The first time I made this, the cream cheese mixture looked lumpy (like bits of cottage cheese were in it at the bottom) but it still tasted great! The first time, I used a generic cream cheese. The second time I made it, I used Philadelphia Cream Cheese and it was smooth. Prettier, and still tasted amazing! I know this question was from 2016, but I came here looking for answers to this question as well, so I hope this helps someone out. 😊
My family of 6 loved this!!! Will make again for sure. One ate it as their desert. I did cook just a bit longer but other than that I didn’t change a thing. Love it
Does it taste better making it the night before where it’s soaks all night, or just letting it soak the 20 minutes?
It tastes great either way. It just depends if you want to make this ahead of time or not.