Sweet and delicious Overnight Bagel French Toast is an easy and tasty breakfast or brunch dish that you’ll look forward to waking up to! The delicious maple cream cheese glaze is pure perfection.
Mornings don’t get any better than this! Wake up to a delicious and easy overnight bagel French toast casserole and make everyone happy.
I love using sweet bagels to make this simple recipe. It also solves the question of what to do with leftover bagels?! You can use whatever sweet bagels you have on hand, or even just use plain bagels.
In this recipe, I used leftover Thomas’ Maple French Toast Bagels that I found at Costco. But you can easily substitute cinnamon raisin bagels, blueberry bagels, whatever you have, as long as it’s not savory.
Moreover, making this recipe is a breeze! Follow the simple recipe instructions below and wake up to a delicious breakfast casserole that everyone will love. Make this dish the night before or up to 3-4 hours in advance. So easy and goof proof, you’re going to love it!
Overnight Bagel French Toast Casserole
Firstly, spray a cooking dish with nonstick spray and add in half a dozen diced bagels. Next, in a large bowl, whisk together the custard topping and pour over the bagels, pushing down to coat. Cover with foil and refrigerate.
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In the morning, uncover the casserole and bake for 30-35 minutes or until custard is set.
Finally, and most importantly, make the delicious maple glaze frosting. Beat together the cream cheese, powdered sugar, maple syrup, and milk. Pour over the Overnight Bagel French Toast Casserole and serve with warm maple syrup.
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Overnight Bagel French Toast Casserole
Ingredients
- 6 sweet bagels such as maple, cinnamon raisin, or blueberry
- 5 large eggs
- 2 cups milk 2% or whole
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Glaze Topping
- 2 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
- Coat a 9 x 13 baking dish or casserole dish with cooking spray. Cut the bagels into bite-sized pieces and place in baking dish.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, melted butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt. Pour the mixture over the bagels and press down gently to soak all of the pieces. Cover and refrigerate overnight or for at least 4 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake, uncovered, for 30-35 minutes until the custard has set in the middle.
- While baking, make the glaze topping by whisking all glaze ingredients together in a small bowl, adding up to an additional tablespoon of milk if needed to made glaze pourable. Drizzle over the baked bagels. Serve with warm maple syrup.
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This was a huge hit with my family who is super picky. I used plain bagels, added an extra teaspoon of vanilla extract, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar after I baked it and doubled the the topping. This is definitely a keeper. Thank you so much for sharing, have a Blessed Christmas!
I make this often for my church bible school breakfast. Since the service lasts one hour, I cook it at 300 for that hour, it come out great.
Love this! Thanks for sharing 🙂
This looks scrumptilicious, if ever there was a word. I’m most definitely going to try making this recipe. I wonder if I can make it in a slow cooker. If so, any ideas on temp. and how many hours?
Excellent dish so old world! I used to make it for years.. Various ways
The principal is the same..just absolutely delicious and thrifty!
Something my Grandma introduced me to. Then passed on to my Mom and me…and IAM not Italian…lol
Thank you Angela!!
Can this be made with plain bagels?
Yes! 🙂
Delicious! I used blueberry bagels and added fresh blueberries on top before baking (gently pushed into bagels.) Will definitely be making again, keeping mind for Christmas.
What a great idea to add blueberries! So happy you loved it!
I just want to say that your directions are different from the video. The vanilla and maple syrup are switched.
oops! Thanks for letting me know 🙂
I made this today and it was really good! My family loved it. I just want to mention what I did differently in case anybody else has the same tastes as us. We really don’t like soggy french toast. I’ve tried the overnight soak and it’s just too soggy and wet for us. I didn’t soak it at all this time. I just poured the egg mixture on, stirred to coat all the pieces, and put it straight in the oven. I baked it for 40 minutes. It was perfect! The egg mixture soaks all the way through every piece, but it wasn’t soggy and mushy. I’ll be making this again!
Super good! Used cinn raisin bagels, so only added 1tsp cinnamon. Did everything else as directed. Nothing was too dry and it baked up moist.
Made it last night and popped it in this morning. Saving this recipe!
So happy you liked it!
Made this last night and baked it this morning. Everyone really liked it. I only did 4 stars because there wasn’t enough liquid in the recipe for the bagels and it would have been too dry. I added 50% more liquid (7 and a half eggs and 3 cups of milk total, instead of 5 eggs/2 cups milk) and it came out nice and dense/moist instead of dry. I also upped the cinnamon and vanilla since I used plain bagels. If I make this again, I might try putting dollops of cream cheese in the bread before baking and maybe a brown sugar streusel on top.
Omg this was delicious! I used Trader Joe’s pumpkin bagels and it was a hit!!
What a great idea! So happy you loved it 🙂
I loved this recipe. I changed some ingredients due to being locked down.
I used an evaporated milk and half cup of almond milk, omitted the maple syrup because didn’t have any, added blueberries. For the glaze i used honey instead of maple syrup and almond milk.
It was delicious and not overly sweet. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
This recipe was easy to make and delicious!!! The cream cheese topping adds a real something extra! I made this for everyday breakfast, but definitely has enough wow factor to make
For a nice brunch!
So happy you loved it! Thanks for the comment 🙂
The casserole ingredients include 1/4 cup maple syrup, but the syrup isn’t listed in step 2. I watched the video and saw it should be, so no worries, just wanted to point it out. Thanks for the recipe!
Eek! Thanks for pointing that out. Hope you loved the recipe, it’s one of my favorites!
I noticed that the maple syrup still isn’t included in step 2. Also
I just made this and it’s soaking in the fridge right now, so I don’t know how it tastes yet, but I’ll rate it once I do.
Hi! I’m wondering if this could be frozen? Thanks!
Yes, you could freeze the casserole and warm as needed. Makes great leftovers. Enjoy!
Yum! Such a delicious use for bagels and I love that it can be made ahead of time! This casserole sounds absolutely incredible with that maple cream cheese glaze.
Now this is breakfast I wouldn’t mind waking up to! Looks absolutely delicious.
This french toast was amazing and the drizzle on top was divine – thank you!!
What a delicious idea for weekend brunch! Looks so delicious!
Drooling over pics. This toast looks amazingly delicious. A must try recipe.