Description
Pumpkin French Toast Casserole with warm spices, soft custard-soaked bread, and a crisp streusel topping.
Ingredients
1 loaf stale white bread (challah, French bread, or brioche)
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup pure pumpkin
5 large eggs
1/4 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons white sugar
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/3 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup melted unsalted butter
Instructions
1. Lightly grease a 9×13 pan.
2. Cut bread into cubes and place into pan.
3. Whisk milk, pumpkin, eggs, sugar, pumpkin spice, and vanilla.
4. Pour mixture over bread and coat evenly.
5. Mix flour, brown sugar, white sugar, pumpkin spice, and pecans.
6. Stir in melted butter to form streusel.
7. If baking immediately: Preheat oven to 350F.
8. Sprinkle streusel over casserole.
9. Cover and bake 40 minutes, then uncover and bake 15–20 minutes.
10. If baking next morning: Chill casserole and streusel overnight.
11. Top with streusel and bake the same way.
Notes
Make your own pumpkin pie spice using cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.
Store leftovers in the fridge or freeze up to 2 months.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 28g
- Sodium: 68mg
- Fat: 19g
- Saturated Fat: 9g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 39g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 7g
- Cholesterol: 141mg