Elevated Cinnamon Baked French Toast Recipe! Easy and Delicious!

Dive into the world of luxurious breakfasts with our Ultimate Gourmet Cinnamon Baked French Toast! Inspired by the classic comfort food, this recipe takes the beloved dish to new heights, blending the richness of brioche or challah bread with a creamy custard, fresh berries, and a crunchy nut topping for a breakfast or brunch that’s as decadent as it is delightful. Follow along as we guide you through each step, transforming simple ingredients into a masterpiece that’s perfect for leisurely mornings, special occasions, or any time you want to treat yourself and your loved ones to something extraordinary. Let’s get baking!

Ingredients:

Brioche or Challah Bread: 1 loaf (thick slices)
Eggs: 8 large
Whole Milk: 2 cups
Heavy Cream: 1 cup
Pure Maple Syrup: 1/4 cup
Pure Vanilla Extract: 1 tablespoon
Ground Cinnamon: 2 teaspoons
Ground Nutmeg: 1/2 teaspoon
Fine Sea Salt: A pinch
Mixed Berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries): 1 cup
Cream Cheese (softened and cubed): 8 oz
All-Purpose Flour: 1/2 cup
Brown Sugar (packed): 1/2 cup
Unsalted Butter (cold and cubed): 1/4 cup
Chopped Pecans or Walnuts: 1/2 cup
Garnishes: Powdered sugar, additional berries, maple syrup, fresh whipped cream

Final Instructions:

Begin by cutting your choice of bread into thick slices, then into large cubes. Arrange these in a greased 9×13 inch baking dish.
In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, heavy cream, maple syrup, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Pour this mixture over the bread, ensuring each piece is coated. Dot with cream cheese and sprinkle with berries, pressing them gently into the bread.
For the crumb topping, mix flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a small bowl. Add butter, blending until the mixture is crumbly, then stir in the nuts. Sprinkle this over your prepared dish.
Allow the dish to rest, covered, in the refrigerator for at least an hour, or overnight, to let the bread absorb the custard.
Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes covered, then uncover and continue baking for 20-30 minutes, or until golden brown and set.
Serve warm, dusted with powdered sugar, adorned with fresh berries, and accompanied by maple syrup and whipped cream for the ultimate breakfast indulgence.

Chachi PT give me your recipe for cinnamon baked French toast no problem here’s the Gourmet one it’s the best you’ll ever have hey everyone welcome back to the AI Kitchen tonight SL tomorrow we’re going to be making Gourmet cinnamon baked French toast now normally I do it all in one day but this

Recipe explicitly calls out putting it in the fridge overnight so I figured I should just do it tonight and tomorrow we can cook it and try it so that’s what we’re going to do and this looks amazing so I’m pretty excited about it all right so we’re just to get started I didn’t

Even gather all the ingredients yet but I figure we’re just going to wing it like always and what we need first is Brios bread which I did find some at the Walmart uh I think I wanted like a full-on loaf we’re going with this pre- chopped loaf but anyway so we got this

Loaf of bread and we’re just going to chop it up into smaller bits they’ve kind of done some of the work for us I do like frios bread it’s delicious I’m just going to oh smells so good too I don’t know what it is about Brio that

Smells so good but anyways just chop it up into big old whole chunks here and that’s going to go into our bread pan here well oh wait you know what let’s do it right guys 9 by1 pan greased take my Pam and grease it and that’s going to

Help us get it out tomorrow I assume then we can take our chunks of Brio Bread and throw them in there I’m just going to do this whole loaf and see how full it looks cuz chaty PT wasn’t very specific I will say this the original recipe by Red Drummond which is pretty

Famous Recipe quite viral uses just normal bread like french bread so we’re changing it up by using the Brios and I think that’s going to be a good change not a bad change cuz bios is so delicious small enough I don’t know sure let’s call those small enough it’s

Already pretty full H I’ll finish out the loaf so here’s what it looks like our pan full of the bread now we’re going to take us a large bowl such as this fancy one and in this large bowl we’re going to make the custard so let me get all the ingredients together what

We need to do for this step is crack eight eggs into our Bowl we’re going to be making a custard filling custard filling or a custard topping I don’t know maybe it’s a topping so we’re just going to crack eight eggs two three you think I can avoid

Getting shells in there I bet I can’t oh no that’s that’s a nightmare Oh no I got a huge shell in there out of there shell OV and you just got to kind of believe in yourself you know and then you won’t get shells but I got a shell

In here too there we go is it shellf free yes it’s pretty shell free let me go wash my Hearns we’re then then going to add two cup cup of milk whole milk is what it calls for one and two now guys if you happen to just

Be new here I want to alert you that I am not a professional cook in any way shape or form don’t let the apron fool you I’m only wearing one cuz everyone was yelling at me for not wearing one I just you know I like to cook I thought

It’d be fun to have chat GPT generate recipes for us and see if it’s a good cook I guess I’m doing the cooking to the best of my ability I just added one cup of heavy cream so two cups of the whole milk and then one cup of heavy

Cream we’re then going to do a/4 cup of maple syrup I got the butter flavored one which is probably like the worst maple syrup but I ordered fancier stuff it just didn’t get delivered so we’re just going to do a/4 cup of this butter flavored yeah I feel like I don’t do

Enough uh enough breakfast recipes on this channel so this is a good opportunity to do one this is a pure vanilla extract and we’re looking for exactly one tablespoon of that tablespoon for real yeah a tablespoon that’s like the whole thing tablespoon of vanilla how do I open

It this thing sounds so good though I mean it doesn’t really sound healthy if I’m honest with you all right so this is uh what is this nutmeg half a teaspoon of ground nutmeg that’s exactly how much I have here cuz it’s a half spoon half teaspoon measurer and then cinnamon

We’re going to do two teaspoons so I’m just going to do that same measurement tool but four times three and four voila we then want to add a pinch of salt sea salt to be exact which I didn’t bring out but I should go get all right guys

Why can’t a dinosaur make an omelette because they eggs stink that’s not actually funny but my little Alexa thing in my house sorry if you just went off just told me that joke and you know figured a share it all right now whisk this together should I have

Used a bigger spoon I don’t know you’re just going to stir it all up whisk it away and I didn’t even use a spoon it’s a fork so I don’t know why I said spoon you know this is reminiscent of when you just make uh French toast at your house

Right eggs milk cinnamon nutmeg like vanilla that’s that’s how you make French toast so it lines up that you would do this this just seems to be at a larger scale so it’s really like you’re making the French toast the night before so in the morning you just throw it in

When you wake up and you have like this amazing breakfast waiting for you good for like Christmas morning or something like that I like the idea is this whisked enough let me see I think it is so now that we have that little mixture we’re going to actually dump it over the

Bread mixture just going to get dumped all over it and coat it evenly well as evenly as possible like so this is I’m doing it guys it’s happening it’s happening right now don’t look away pretty neat hopefully it’s not going to be S I don’t think it will though cuz

We’re going to bake it should I mix it up a little I’m going to mix it up a little I want to make sure everything’s nice and coated like so although I don’t want to like crumble it so I got to be careful okay I think that’s good all

Right up next we need cream cheese this is where it gets a little weird but we’re going to try it see how it comes out so far this seems like it might be the easiest recipe I’ve ever made I mean it seems very simple here’s a paper

Plate a lot of people get triggered that I use paper plates because it’s not fancy come on I’m not fancy so take some cream cheese and cut it into cubes it says I don’t know how big the cubes are supposed to be so we’re just going to do

Our best yeah seems like a super easy recipe and it seems like we’re in for a little treat cubes of the cream cheese so okay you’re on a desert island you have one thing you can eat for the rest of your life but it has to be between

These three things French toast waffles pancakes go comment down below let me know what you pick okay so up next what we want to do this is like a SLO at this point which I kind of figured might happen is we just want to take these uh

Cream cheese bits and just plop them on literally just plop them all over the place and these are going to make like gooey Pockets it said of goodness in the French toast so okay so what would I pick hm man that’s a tough one what if

You I don’t know if it’ be French toast I love French toast okay and I guess in this scenario like you’re going to remain healthy and it’s never going to affect your health okay so if that’s the case I might pick French toast it’s not like waffles or pancakes are that much

Healthier I think most people might say waffles I don’t know I’ll look at the comments and uh we’ll see all right so here’s all our cream cheese should I just tuck one under here little sneaky snack it says dot the top with C cream cheese cube cream cheese and sprinkle

Evenly with mixed berries gently press them into some of the cracks Between the Bread let me get some mixed berries all right so we’ve got our mixed berries we’re just going to I don’t know do the thing with them too how many mixed berries I don’t know I’m going to do a

Lot I got blueberries and raspberries here the schn berries taste like schn berries guys name that movie did you name it I know what it is now we got to push all these into the cracks like that I guess I don’t know how do you push

Them into the cracks we’re just going to kind of we just going to get our hands in there and just do our best to kind of crack ify them you you want it to be like well integrated I guess that’s pretty good right it’s not perfect certainly looks interesting all right

Let’s set this aside we have to make our crumb topping next all right so now for the topping the little crumbly topping first we need I think a/2 cup of flour let me say yes half a cup of flour which I came all prepped I pre-loaded it half

A cup of brown sugar is that packed I’m not sure yes packed brown sugar half a cup of that you know what’s crazy like I want to know what happened to make every breakfast food so incredibly unhealthy think of like the best breakfasts you know the ones everyone wants to eat

Cinnabons French toast waffles pancakes I mean there is healthy breakfast breakfast seas and actually I plan on making one on here it’s like an Amish egg uh casserole I’m not sure if I’ll make that before like if I’ll have that video out before this one or after that

All right half a cup of brown sugar but there are healthy options but come on we all love the unhealthy options let’s be real all right now butter as well cubed butter cold cubed butter for unsalted 1/4 cup that’s half of this I’m literally just going to cut this in half

Cube it up and yes I’m kind of just using my tabletop as uh as my cutting board maybe not the best idea but it’s what I’m doing I washed it just today so throw that in there oh you know what I’m getting a bunch of wrapper in there too

Nothing is more tasty than paper M be advised do not eat paper that’s my uh my warning to you do not eat paper so we need to add cinnamon and Nutmeg as well teaspoon of cinnamon we’re back with the teaspoon of cinnamon here there’s a half there’s another half it’s going to make

Me squish this butter with my fingers I know it and then and 1/4 teaspoon of nut Meg I don’t really love squishing butter with my fingers they do that in a lot of biscuit recipes too that I’ve done I never love it add cold Cube butter and

Use your fingers or pastry blender to mix until it resembles coarse crumbles and then stir in the chopped nuts all right give me a second basically we’re just taking our fingers and we’re just owning this butter just turning it into a mush a Mushy Mushy paste and getting

This all mixed up so that’s going to take me a couple minutes honestly probably like 2 to 3 minutes and you’re not really going to be able to see cuz I chose a tiny Bowl cuz it told me to so we’ll be right back this is not a

Gluten-free Delight guys if you’re a Celiac I highly recommend avoiding this meal all right can we call that good I think it’s pretty close here take a look at it pretty good and then we just want to add that over the top of this which

By the way this is like a total mush now literally just crumble it all over or the top the topping goes on the top guys that’s how toppings work that is like crazy looking I hope it like Recon toes into something thicker once it’s all

Done we hope we’ll see okay cool I just spill it on the table beautiful now we’re supposed to just stir Chopped peans all over it did I say pecans wrong I feel like I did you can also use walnuts it says the world is your oyster

Oops all right a little more than half a cup just sprinkle those over it and then it goes into the fridge overnight and I think tomorrow it’s just a matter of throwing it in the oven and eating it so we’ll see you tomorrow it looks amazing I’m excited about it really easy recipe

So far and let me see what is tomorrow refrigerate with aluminum foil over the top tomorrow we bake all right see you then all right so good morning hi we’re back here is my custard French toast thingy looks interesting looks like the bread has really soaked up everything

Looks good we’re going to leave the foil on it and it’s going to go into the oven at 375 according to chat PT covered for 25 minutes then we’re going to remove the foil and bake for another 15 to 20 minutes or until the top is crispy

Golden brown and the custard is fully set so that’s it really oven at 375 25 minutes foil on 15 minutes foil off and then we have some finishing touches and we get to try it it is nice to wake up and have something so simple to cook for

Breakfast guys I cannot even express to you how good this smells this smells absolutely incredible and we’re going to put the finishing touches on it we need a little powdered sugar this is our French toast uh I can’t remember what it’s called whatever I called it in the

Title of the video take some powdered sugar and sprinkle it on top cuz you know French toast is always a little better with powdered sugar and then it tells us to throw a little bit more Berry action on it so I’ll throw some blueberries on it you know some cold

Ones to kind of counteract the hot ones that are in it couple of raspberries we’re basically just garnishing it with delicios always with the delicios Dave always oh it looks incredible all right we’re about to dig into this it looks incredible uh should I get a corner

Piece sure all right well it looks a little bit uh I don’t know I feel like it should have been a bit more solid than I’m seeing here but I don’t know um do I need a spatula probably so since I’ve never made this before I have no

Real concept as to what it should look like inside oh you know what that stuff is cream cheese that’s what I ran into it’s not like it’s uncooked it’s just cream cheese in there so look at this look at that wobble can you see it so

We’re supposed to take a little bit of that whipped cream serve it along the side we’re about to try this French toast breakfast casserole thingy my goodness this is going to be insane it’s going to burn my My Flesh oh man wow hold on I should be like Dave

Poroy one bite everybody knows the rules then take like 12 bites holy cow this can’t be healthy but I’m in a good spot right now mentally emotionally I’m feeling good that’s incredible it is so good like wow now that burnt all the way going down that last bite but still

Worth it it’s absolutely delicious the cream cheese I really feel is like hitting hard too it’s just incredible guys this is great um you need to make it imagine the original was good too but the cream cheese is doing so much for it and I don’t think the cream cheese is in

The original recipe I want more but I’m going to I’m going to be good and I’ll see if I’m hungry in a little bit and then I’ll eat more but this is absolutely awesome got to try it love it one of my favorites I’ve made on

This show so show sure thank you guys for watching hope you enjoyed it if you did hit the like button subscribe tell your friends come on now thank you guys we’ll see you next time bye