Banana Overnight French Toast Casserole
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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1 Casserole
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
- 1 loaf great harvest bread
- 2 bananas
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar, divided
- 6 eggs
- 3 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon hazelnut extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 cup walnuts, chopped
- 4 tablespoons butter, sliced very thin
directions
- Cube or tear bread into 1-2 in chunks. I like to use great harvest bread Apple cinch bread but any French, Italian, etc works. Put them in a sprayed or greased 13x9 in baking dish.
- mash 2 very ripe bananas with 1/4 c brown sugar.
- Whisk in 6 eggs.
- add 3 cups of milk, hazelnut and vanilla extract (double vanilla if you don't have hazelnut) and whisk until combined.
- Pour over the bread and refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
- mix the remaining 1/2 c brown sugar with the cinnamon and walnuts and sprinkle evenly over the top of the bread in the morning.
- Slice the 1/2 stick of butter very thin and dot the top of the casserole with them.
- bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes, let stand 10 minutes before cutting.
- Serve alone or with maple syrup. This reheats very well!
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<br>I know it seems like I give lots of good reviews, but there is a good reason: I know what we like, so I pick dishes I think we will like, and often we do. If i give a review of a recipe with no stars it's because I think I did something wrong usually so that's why it didn't come out right. Or if something has excellent ratings and I don't like it, I don't want to ruin that, because obviously I didn't like something, but that's not a refection of the actual recipe!
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<br>I dislike when people don't make the recipe correctly and give it a bad review. Ok, if you change one or two small things, fine, but if you make major changes, not ok. And when people give a bad review because it was good, but not what they are looking for? Sorry, but I don't get that. YOU picked it, if it tastes good but wasn't what you were looking for, not the recipe's fault :)