Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole Recipe – french toast casserole bursting with cinnamon flavor. Super easy to make and tastes great! Canned cinnamon rolls, eggs, heavy cream, vanilla, ground cinnamon, maple syrup, and pecans. One bite and you will be blown away! This casserole is a must for Christmas morning breakfast!
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Stop what you are doing and add this Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole to your menu. It is super easy to make and tastes GREAT! Canned cinnamon rolls, eggs, heavy cream, vanilla, ground cinnamon, maple syrup, and pecans. This is our go-to casserole for potlucks, brunch, and holiday mornings. One bite and this is sure to become a family favorite!
How to Make Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole
This casserole is super easy to make with only a few simple ingredients. Pour melted butter into the bottom of a 9×13-inch baking dish. Open a can of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Cut each roll into 8 pieces. Place cinnamon roll pieces into the butter.
In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, heavy cream, ground cinnamon, and vanilla extract. Pour egg mixture over cinnamon roll dough. Sprinkle casserole with chopped pecans. Drizzle maple syrup over the top of the dish.
Bake the casserole in a preheated oven until golden brown. Microwave icing cups for 10 seconds. Drizzle icing over the casserole and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Spoon syrup from the baking dish over servings.
Helpful Tips & Frequently Asked Questions
- This recipe uses 2 (12.4 oz each) cans of Pillsbury® refrigerated cinnamon rolls with icing. Each can has 8 rolls. You will have 16 cinnamon rolls in total.
- This recipe does NOT use Pillsbury Grands! Cinnamon Rolls.
- Make sure to use real maple syrup and NOT pancake syrup.
- What can I add to the casserole?
- blueberries
- cooked sausage crumbles
- cooked chopped bacon
- chocolate chips
- Can French Toast Casserole be made in advance? Yes. Assemble the casserole. Cover the baking pan with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
- If using a glass pan, bring the pan to room temperature before baking.
- Can French Toast Casserole be frozen? Yes! Bake the casserole and cool completely. Cover the casserole dish with plastic wrap and aluminum foil. Place in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- When ready to eat, thaw and reheat in the microwave or covered with foil in the oven.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge.
What to Serve with Easy Cinnamon Roll Casserole
We love to serve this casserole with bacon and fresh fruit. It is also great with some cheese grits and hash brown potatoes. YUM! We love this for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, and holiday breakfast. Give this a try the next time you’re in the mood for an extra-special but extra-easy breakfast treat.
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Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole
Ingredients:
- ¼ cup butter melted
- 2 (12.4 oz) cans refrigerated cinnamon rolls with icing
- 6 large eggs
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 cup maple syrup
Instructions:
- Heat oven to 375°F. Pour melted butter into ungreased 13×9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish.
- Separate both cans of dough into 16 rolls; set icing aside. Cut each roll into 8 pieces; place cinnamon rolls dough pieces over butter in dish.
- In medium bowl, whisk together eggs, heavy cream, ground cinnamon, and vanilla extract. Pour egg mixture over cinnamon roll dough. Sprinkle with chopped pecans; drizzle with maple syrup.
- Bake, uncovered, for 20 to 28 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, remove covers from icing; microwave on 50% power for 10 to 15 seconds or until thin enough to drizzle.
- Drizzle icing over top; sprinkle with powdered sugar. Spoon syrup from the baking dish over individual servings.
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I just made this recipe for breakfast today. It was a hit with the whole family! Thanks for a great, easy recipe! I will definitely be making this again!
Can you fix this the night before?
I made this for Christmas breakfast, mainly for the kids. They absolutely loved it, and I gotta say, I liked it just as much as they did! Such an easy recipe, and it is so incredibly delicious! I left the pecans off of ours, just totally eliminatated it from the recipe since my daughter is deathly allergic to nuts of any kind. So if you have a nut allergy, take it from me, you can just leave them off. You won't miss them.
I made this today for Christmas breakfas.. What a hit!! This will for sure be on my yearly Christmas list.I also cut it in half.
This was delicious. The only change I would make is to add raisins next time.
I made the kids a baked french toast for them for Christmas morning and they were not impressed. Your cinnamon roll version sounds like it might get a thumbs up from them.
~ingrid
ok, great! Can't wait to try it!
This would be so good for Christmas morning 🙂
Oh my gosh, this looks amazing! I'll definitely have to try this soon!
Oh my, that looks sinfully delicious! This sounds right up my alley. Thanks for sharing this with us!
LauraJ – When I say that I preferred icing over syrup – I mean on the finished product. The recipe calls for icing, powdered sugar or syrup. I liked the icing. Keep the syrup in the cinnamon roll mixture while baking. It is really good!
When you say you prefer the icing instead of the syrup, do you mean you put the icing in place of the syrup and bake it that way or what? Because I'm thinking the icing mixed in with the bake would be way better than the syrup would!
Rich and wonderful. I applaud your cinnamon roll streak. 😉
I bet this would make my husband slap himself silly. He's a cinnamon roll freak!
I love this idea. It sounds like such a decadent breakfast.