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Looking for an easy and delicious breakfast for the holidays? This Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole is a simple brunch or breakfast recipe and so good!
Do you ever make a recipe and it turns out way better than you expected? Well that was this Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole for me. One of my favorite things I remember from growing up is the specific meals we had around the holidays. We always had a Traditional English Pasty on Christmas Eve and quiche, cream cheese braid and grits for Christmas morning breakfast.
After Tyler and I got married, holidays started changing a bit. We alternate Christmas and Thanksgiving between our families each year. But we’ve always done our own Christmas, just the two of us (now three of us), before we take off for family Christmas. As I started thinking about it I wanted to make sure we have our special meals for our Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. Each year we’ve usually had this French Toast Casserole but I wanted to create something that was a little bit easier and that K can help me make.
I love the memories I have growing up helping my mom in the kitchen. Decorating Christmas cookies was always a favorite. I also remember making chicken-n-dumplings with my great grandmother. She made the best chicken-n-dumplings. As K gets older, I want to be able to enjoy those memories in the kitchen together. I’ll be honest with y’all, and say when I tried to get her to help me make this casserole, she just tried to shove the cinnamon roll dough in her mouth. I don’t think she’s quite old enough, but next year will be the year I think.
I love that we can create memories together at home and that Pillsbury is helping families in need create cherished memories around the joy of baking through their “Made at Home” campaign. Pillsbury knows it’s in homes, and particularly kitchens, where families make meaningful, lasting memories. I’m excited to have a Christmas morning breakfast using Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls, one of my favorite products they make.
Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole
Looking for an easy and delicious breakfast for the holidays? This Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole is a simple brunch or breakfast recipe and so good!
Ingredients
- 2 cans Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls (8 count)
- 1 stick butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 cup milk
- 3 eggs
Instructions
Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl
Mix together the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon
Spread half the brown sugar mixture in the bottom of a greased 9x13 pan
Cut cinnamon rolls into quarters and spread in one layer in the casserole dish
Spread remaining brown sugar mixture on top of cinnamon rolls
Beat together the eggs and milk and pour over the cinnamon rolls
Use a fork to lift up some of the cinnamon rolls to ensure the egg mixture gets underneath the cinnamon rolls, in case they are packed tightly in
Bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until golden brown and set
Spread icing from cinnamon roll tubes over casserole immediately upon removing it from the oven
I am looking forward to serving this as a part of our Christmas morning breakfast and I’m pretty sure K and Tyler are going to love it! I would love to hear what dishes are special to you and your family during the holidays?
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Cinnamon Roll Cream Cheese Braid
Man, I really wish our toddler didn’t have a dairy allergy because this looks DELICIOUS!
It is oh so good!
There are some brands of cinnamon rolls with no dairy and same with the butter and milk. I’m making the whole thing diary free for my son.
That sounds incredible. I need something like this to make for the kids on Christmas morning, so I am excited that you shared this today. YUM.
I hope y’all enjoy it. It’s so good!
I was just looking for a delicious cinnamon roll recipe. I did cinnamon roll waffles last year, but I have an extra kid now and not as much time to do all those individual things.
Oh I love cinnamon roll waffles but yes they are time consuming haha! This is a nice easy breakfast!
Yes please!!! I love all things cinnamon and this looks like something I could easily prepare with maximum taste!! Can’t wait to try it!
Yes! It’s so good!
I think it is so important to make as many memories as we can because you never know how much time you have. I love the sound of the cinnamon roll french toast x
I think it’s nice that you’re having the kids help out in the kitchen, it’s one of the best ways to learn a very important life skill that they’ll use when they grow up. Not to mention that you’re going to be making memories as well! This recipe is delightful!
Yum! French toast and Cinnamon Rolls are my favourite. Putting them together! I love that the kids are included. Making memories especially in the kitchen is great.
I love a really good cinnamon roll. I really like how you’ve done this in a french toast casserole. Yum!
This is something that my entire family would enjoy for a delicious breakfast. We love French toast!
Delicious cinnamon rolls in just a few minutes. Thanks for sharing this. I will always love cinnamon rolls..
Oh my! This would be so awesome to make for Christmas morning, after the presents are all opened! I would prep the night before, as our son loves to get up so early!
Oh my goodness. I need this in my life, ASAP! This looks incredible. What a great idea for a Christmas morning breaskfast too. I will have to do this!
I need a slice of this right now, please! It looks so good and delectable! I can eat it everyday. Thanks for the wonderful recipe, I think it’s a lovely Christmas morning treat for the family.
One of our holiday family traditions is cinnamon rolls as soon as we wake up, this is such a great variation on that! I’m going to have to send this to my sisters to try out this year!
These look so good and easy. I just saw a coupon for cinnamon rolls so I’m gonna have to get some and try it this weekend.
l love cinnamon rolls and this casserole looks and sounds delicious! I would love to try making this for our family for the holidays! Thanks for sharing.
This sounds yummy! I read through the instructions and I don’t see eggs or milk on the ingredients list. How much of those does this recipe call for!
That should be a question mark. LOL! I’m not yelling that at you. ?
Haha no worries! Thanks for catching my mistake, I have updated the recipe! I know I remember putting that in but it must have not saved, silly computers!
I’m thinking I would have to go to confession after eating these rolls, it has to be a sin! How delicious they look!
I absolutely love cinnamon rolls. They are a wonderful and easy brunch idea this time of the year. I never would have thought to make them into a casserole though, it is genius!
okay, I might need to change our christmas morning tradition! this looks so good!
This looks like the perfect way to start Christmas morning. I love a great breakfast casserole. Yum!
Oh I am saving this for Christmas morning! It would be perfect! We love Pillsbury cinnamon rolls!
This looks fabulous and like a dessert my daughters would absolutely love! I just added it to my breakfast menu lineup for the week. YUM!
This looks so delish. I keep meaning to try a breakfast casserole because they look like a great way to treat your family to a special breakfast.
That casserole looks so good. I love Pilsbury cinnamon rolls. They’re so convenient to make and can’t go wrong with it. Thanks for the reminder that I need to grab some for the holidays.
Oh yum! I make this each year for Christmas morning and my kids absolutely love it. They know it’s something special they can look forward to after opening presents.
This looks so easy and delicious. Definitely adding it to my ‘must make’ pile of recipes! Love the blog!!