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This simple, make ahead, Crème Brûlée french toast is amazing and the perfect overnight breakfast idea to serve on a holiday or for overnight guests.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe!
Time Saver. This Creme Brûlée French Toast is made the night ahead of time so you can have a quick and easy breakfast in the morning. It’s the perfect thing for a holiday breakfast or overnight guests.
Delicious! Crème Brûlée is a french dessert that consists of a smooth custard topped with caramelized sugar. This french toast is basically Crème Brûlée over bread. The french toast has a yummy, gooey, caramel layer on top, thus the name Crème Brûlée. Crème Brûlée is one of my favorite desserts so I knew I would like it for breakfast too!
Ingredients Needed
- Bread, Use brioche bread, or challah bread or a thick French Bread
- Eggs
- Butter, salted
- Half and Half or Heavy Cream
- Brown Sugar
- Corn Syrup. Can also substitute maple syrup.
- Vanilla Extract
- Orange Juice Concentrate. The kind that comes frozen in the can.
- Salt
How to Make Crème Brûlée French Toast
- Put butter, brown sugar and corn syrup in a small pan and whisk to combine..
- Cook on medium heat and stir until smooth.
- Pour mixture into a 9 x 13 baking dish
- Cut bread into 1″ thick slices.
- Arrange slices of bread on top of sugar mixture. Squeeze them to fit together
- Mix together eggs, half and half, vanilla, OJ concentrate and salt in a bowl.
- Pour evenly over bread.
- Cover dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate over night
- Remove french toast from refrigerator and bring to room temperature.
- Bake uncovered at 350 degrees F until edges of pale gold,a bout 30-40 minutes.
Tips from leigh Anne
- I used challah bread, but you can use brioche bread or a crusty french bread. French toast is the perfect thing to make when you’ve got some day old or slightly stale bread
- If you don’t have half and half, you can use half milk and half cream.
- Make sure to bring the French toast to room temperature before baking. If baking chilled, allow additional baking time.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I make it the morning of instead of the night before?
You can, just allow it to sit for at least an hour for the liquid to absorb.
I don’t have orange juice concentrate, what else can I use?
You could use a teaspoon of orange extract.
How do you store leftover crème brûlée french toast?
Store any leftovers in the fridge for 1-2 days. To reheat use the microwave or oven. The brulee topping will get a little soggy after sitting in the refrigerator. Reheat in the oven.
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Crème Brûlée French Toast
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter salted
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp. corn syrup
- 1 loaf french brioche or challah bread
- 5 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups half and half or heavy cream
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp orange juice concentrate or orange extract
- 1/4 tsp salt
Instructions
- In a small pan melt butter with brown sugar and corn syrup. Stir until smooth
- Pour mixture into a 9 x 13 inch baking dish
- Cut bread into 1″ thick slices. Arrange bread slices in pan, on top of sugar mixture.Squeeze them to fit together
- In a bowl mix together eggs, half and half, vanilla, OJ and salt. Pour evenly over bread
- Cover dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate over night
- Heat oven to 350 degrees and bring bread to room temperature before baking
- Bake bread mixture uncovered until edges of pale gold. Approx 30-40 minutes
Tips & Notes:
- I used challah bread, but you can use brioche bread or a crusty french bread. French toast is the perfect thing to make when you’ve got some day old or slightly stale bread
- If you don’t have half and half, you can use half milk and half cream.
- Make sure to bring the French toast to room temperature before baking. If baking chilled, allow additional baking time.
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Tammy says
I was a bit skeptical about whether it would be a bit too soggy for my taste, but I couldn’t resist trying it – I mean, with a name like Creme Brulee, who could?? So I put it together this morning before heading out for jury duty and we had it for dinner tonight. MMMmmm!!! We loved it. It was pure heaven. It wasn’t too soggy and my husband loved the little custardy bits from in between the toast. I opened up your site to see if you had commented about serving them upside down so my husband saw the picture and wished he had some blueberry compote too. (We just had it plain, but it was still super yummy.) I won’t be making it again for a while seeing as it’s not exactly low fat and I have no will-power, but I will definitely be making it again some day! 🙂 Thanks!
Emmy says
This looks delicious. I love oven baked french toast. Thanks for sharing.
FoodontheTable says
This looks delicious! There is a restaurant in Austin that does this for brunch and I never quite figured out how. I’ll have to try this at home now!
Zupan's Markets says
This looks so good! Doesn’t look very difficult either, which is a great bonus. thanks!
Angela Merz says
Leigh Anne,
I am beyond excited to try this recipe. I, too, LOVE creme brulee & french toast so this recipe sounds amazing. Have company coming so I’ll be making it soon! Thank you!