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blueberry-orange cream cheese stuffed french toast casserole with crunchy honey bunches of oats topping

Author: Taylor Ellingson

Ingredients

  • 1 baguette sliced
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 ½ cups milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon orange zest
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar

for the cream cheese filling:

  • 8 oz cream cheese softened
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
  • 2 teaspoon orange zest
  • ½ cup fresh blueberries

for the topping:

  • ¾ cup Post Honey Bunches of Oats
  • 2 tablespoon butter melted

Instructions

For the french toast:

  • In medium bowl, whisk together 4 eggs, milk, vanilla extract, orange zest, salt, and sugar.
  • Place baguette slices into egg mixture and stir well so every piece is well saturated.
  • Let sit for 10-20 minutes, mixing every 5 minutes or so, to make sure they are soaking up all of the egg mixture.
  • While waiting for the bread to soak, you can preheat your oven to 350 degrees and lightly spray baking dish with cooking spray. I used an 8x10" baking dish but you could also use a 9x13" dish.
  • Also while waiting for the bread to soak, make your cream cheese mixture:
  • Beat cream cheese for one minute with electric mixture.
  • Add sugar, egg, orange juice, and orange zest and beat well to combine.
  • Beat in blueberries until they are roughly broken up.

To assemble:

  • Place half of the sliced baguettes along bottom of baking dish.
  • Pour cream cheese mixture over baguettes, spreading with spatula if needed.
  • Top with remaining baguette slices.
  • If making the night before, wrap with saran wrap at this point and refrigerate overnight. Add topping right before baking it.

For the topping:

  • Combine Honey Bunches of Oats and melted butter.
  • Sprinkle over french toast casserole.
  • Bake in preheated oven 30-40 minutes if baking right away, or 40-50 minutes if baking after letting it sit in the refrigerator overnight, until golden brown and middle is set.
  • Let cool for 5 minutes, then enjoy!