Pecan Pumpkin Pie French Toast Casserole
This Pecan Pumpkin Pie French Toast Casserole recipe is a make-ahead beauty one-dish meal.
Really, you could not as for a better breakfast or brunch, as it tastes most like a pumpkin pie and like french toast. The ingredients really do hit the mark with this one.
Pecan Pumpkin Pie French Toast Casserole
Fall flavours, don’t you just love them? There’s nothing more comforting in Autumn like Maple Pumpkin Pie or Pecan Pie Bars.
While I love to make Strawberry Stuffed French Toast in the summer, this is a fall version that suits the season.
The countdown to back to school marks another change as we transition from summer – pumpkin spice all the things!
This Pecan Pumpkin Pie French Toast Casserole recipe celebrates that and more with it’s make-ahead beauty, and it’s feature for being a one-dish meal. OK that and french toast too.
Really, you could not as for a better breakfast or brunch recipe than this, that is other than my quick and easy camping breakfast recipe idea, which is made on the BBQ!.
Pecan Pumpkin Pie French Toast Casserole is a mouthful title, yet I wanted to place hommage on it’s delicious ingredients as well as the style of the dish itself.
Since you allow it to sit once combined, for a minimum of 3 hours – it’s also an overnight recipe, which is so handy to have ready to pop in that oven.
Ask my kids and they’ll tell you it tastes most like a pumpkin pie and like french toast, so the ingredients really do hit the mark with this one.
Perfect for busy weekends, when company is over, and for those cool fall days which are coming up.
Sad to speak of Autumn, yet great pumpkin spice recipes make it easier, along with oversized sweaters.
Here’s the full recipe, don’t forget to bookmark and print!
Don’t forget to try this Bisquick Sausage Egg Casserole if you are looking for another great breakfast casserole.
Pecan Pumpkin Pie French Toast Casserole
Ingredients
- 1 loaf of day old french bread (diced)
- 1 3/4 cups milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 cups Burnbrae Farms Egg Creations Whole Eggs
- 1 cup pumpkin puree {not pumpkin pie filling}
- 2 tbsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
STREUSEL
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup salted butter (diced)
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1/3 cup pecans
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tsp nutmeg
Instructions
- Spray a 9×13 casserole dish with non-stick cooking spray. Place the diced bread in the pan, set aside
- In a large bowl whisk together the milk, sugars, cream, eggs, pumpkin puree, vanilla and pumpkin pie spice.
- Pour the liquid over the bread and cover with plastic wrap. Refridgerate for at least 3 hours to overnight. When ready to cook, make the streusel.
STREUSEL
- In a medium bowl, combine the sugars, butter and flour and lightly mix. Add in pecans, pie spice and nutmeg and mix.
- Sprinkle the streusel over the french toast mixture and cook at 350 degrees for 50-65 minutes or until thoroughly cooked through. If the top of the streusel gets too brown near the end of the cooking, but still needs more cooking – tent foil over the top to prevent burning.
- Serve warm and enjoy!
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seriously you always have the most creative & delicious recipes! would you like to come bake for me? lol seriously though this looks amazing and I love the combination of pecan and pumpkin
oh my gosh! this puts my french toast to shame! this looks so delicious and I love the pumpkin pecan combination!
Wow – this looks fantastic! Maybe the next time we have overnight guests
Looks very yummy, and fillling,
This sounds so good!! I so have to try as I love french toast and pecans!! 🙂
Will be trying this out for sure. I like that you can make it the night before.
I’m always looking for a good brunch recipe that we get together – this is perfect and I’m sure it will be gobbled up!
I cannot wait for fall so seeing this recipe makes me even more excited. It looks absolutely delicious. I can’t wait to try it!
this looks so yummy. going to try this at parties
This looks good! I would probably try this in the fall.
I have a friend who runs a B & B who makes something very similar which is delicious.
Oh wow! This sounds amazing – it would be the perfect brunch dish on a fall day 🙂
This would be a wonderful thanksgiving recipe! Going to pin via ChaosAndSilence for later! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my! This looks so very good. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Saving this one for when the weather turns a little cooler. Thanks for sharing!