Baked Bagel French Toast with Maple Glaze — Soft, chewy bagels make the best French toast! So easy, no flipping required, and tastes phenomenally good!!
French Toast Breakfast Casserole…With Bagels!
I’ve made my share of French toast. With Hawaiian bread, as French toast sticks, as muffins, with gingerbread, pumpkin, streusel topping, and peanut butter maple syrup.
But using bagels is a first and it won’t be the last. This fast, easy, no-flipping, no-stovetop-babysitting, baked French toast casserole is soft, chewy, moist, and tender.
It’s perfect for brunch or on a leisurely weekend. I made it over the weekend and wrapped up the leftovers in plastic wrap and had breakfasts ready for my daughter for the week.
I finished the dish with an easy whisk-together maple syrup glaze. It boosts the maple flavor even more, and adds a gooey, juicy, lusciousness to the French toast that’s more special than plain maple syrup.
Every bite of this French toast is like the sweet, soft, glaze-coated, perfect center bite of a cinnamon roll. It’s an easy, comfort food breakfast that’s guaranteed to be a hit.
What’s in Bagel French Toast Casserole?
To make this quick french toast casserole, you’ll need:
- Unsalted butter
- Eggs
- Milk
- Maple syrup
- Granulated sugar
- Light brown sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Cinnamon
- Salt
- Bagels
- Confectioners’ sugar
How to Make Bagel French Toast Casserole
Whisk together the melted butter, eggs, milk, maple syrup, sugars, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt. Add the diced bagels and toss to coat.
Turn the mixture into a greased 11×7-inch baking dish. Bake until the center is set and has dried out some, taking care not to over bake as you want the French toast soft and moist.
Once the french toast breakfast casserole comes out of the oven, drizzle with maple glaze.
Can I Prep This Easy Baked French Toast the Night Before?
I haven’t tried this myself, so I can’t say for sure whether you can transform this into an overnight french toast casserole.
Tips for Making Baked French Toast Casserole
I used Thomas’ Limited Edition Maple French Toast Bagels. Making French toast with French toast-flavored bagels is perfect destiny. The bagels are soft, chewy, full of robust maple and cinnamon flavor, and they smell amazing.
Even in the sealed bag they made my cupboard smell like a bakery. If you can’t find this flavor, use cinnamon-swirl, cinnamon-raisin, or plain bagels.
You’re welcome to use lite or sugar-free maple syrup in this recipe if that’s what you prefer.
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Baked Bagel French Toast with Maple Glaze
Ingredients
French Toast
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup milk or cream, regular, soy, almond, cashew, etc.
- ¼ cup maple syrup, lite or sugar-free okay
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup light brown sugar, packed
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt, or taste
- 5 Thomas’ Limited Edition Maple French Toast Bagels (or cinnamon-swirl, cinnamon-raisin, or plain, diced in 1-inch pieces
Maple Glaze
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
- about 1/4 cup+ maple syrup, lite or sugar-free okay, adding additional as necessary for desired consistency
Instructions
- French Toast:
- Preheat oven to 350F. Spray a medium-large oval baker with cooking spray or grease and flour the baking dish. My baking dish measures about 11-inches by 7-inches. Alternatively, use a 9-inch square pan or a 9×13-inch pan noting that baking time will be reduced; set aside.
- To a large microwave-safe bowl, add the butter and heat on high power to melt, about 1 minute. Wait momentarily so you don’t scramble the eggs.
- Add the eggs, milk, maple syrup, sugars, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, and whisk to combine.
- Add the bagels and toss lightly to coat. Allow mixture to stand for about 5 to 10 minutes, stirring once or twice, giving bagels time to soak up the coating.
- Turn mixture out into prepared baking dish, loosely laying it in. Drizzle any unabsorbed coating mixture over the bagels.
- Bake for about 35 minutes (start watching more closely at 30 minutes), or until center is set and has dried out some taking care not to overbake as you want the French toast soft and moist. The coating does not have to be bone dry on all pieces. If you’re having difficulty judging doneness, try a small bite and if it seems too wet, moist, or underdone for your liking, bake longer. French toast will firm up more as it cools. Baking times may vary widely based upon bagels used, baking dish used, climate, and oven variance.
- While French toast bakes, make the glaze.
Maple Glaze:
- To a medium bowl, add both ingredients and whisk until smooth. You may need to play with the sugar or maple syrup amounts slightly to achieve desired consistency.
- Remove French toast from oven, evenly drizzle with glaze, and serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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YUM!! I will be putting this on the menu for Easter breakfast for SURE! I might add some of the peanut butter syrup from https://www.averiecooks.com/2014/03/french-toast-with-peanut-butter-maple-syrup.html
because why not add peanut butter?!
Beautiful pictures too!
Thank you for reminding me about my own syrup! :) That stuff is amazing and would be wonderful on this bagel bake!
Ooh, yum. Sometimes I find that baked french toast is a little too soggy for my taste, but I bet using bagels would take care of that problem.
I know exactly the sog-factor you’re talking about and many French toast is just too soggy for me as well but this…oh wow. The best chewiness ever! You’ll love the texture!
You are genius! This looks amazing… tomorrow we are supposed to be snowed in and I’m totally going to get some bagels before the storm to make this in the morning! Yum!! :)
Good luck with the snow! And if you try this, please LMK how it goes!
Now I want a huge bagel or a big serving of French toast! This looks absolutely marvelous.
Oh wow. My mouth is watering right now. Lucky me that I have extra bagels sitting in the fridge.
You literally read my mind. Guess what I made last week??!!! But mine did not work out (too much egg; like a scrambled bagel casserole). This looks SO GOOD! It’s the perfect way to use up those extra bagels! Pinned, of course!
Thanks for pinning and sorry your attempt at making something like this didn’t go so well. I have learned with French toast recipes of any kind, easy does it with the eggs because otherwise it turns into baked eggs. Trust me, been there! ugh.
Averie, this is insane in the BEST way!!!! I don’t even have words…. pinned!
Thanks for pinning and I saw your bananas foster French toast yesterday and that is right up my alley. Lovvvvve bananas foster so much!
That glaze won me over! I always have some left over bagels when I make them because they go stale so quickly. I will have to do this next time…
Homemade bagels get stale soooo fast, totally agree! This would be a perfect way to use them!
WOW. Bagel French Toast. I think I’m in love.
Your baked french toast recipes are pure comfort food and using bagels is such a great idea–they have such a chewy, hearty texture. This looks like it would smell (and taste) amazing!! This kind of has a cinnamon roll/monkey bread vibe with that yummy glaze over the top….it’s like the best of all breakfast treats in one dish!
cinnamon roll/monkey bread vibe = funny you say that because I am making a recipe over the weekend that’s going to be one or the other or sort of both of those things in one :)
I love a good baked french toast. LOVE the bagel twist…and the maple glaze!! PINNED :)
Thanks for pinning and the bagels added the best chewiness and texture to this!
A french toast-i-fied bagel?!? SAY WAH?!!? Clearly this needs to happen to my life…and that maple? It makes the Canadian inside of me very happy ;) Pinned!
Thanks for pinning and it would be a perfect cozy breakfast for a cold Canadian morning!
YUM!!!! this is like having dessert for breakfast…then you get all day to work it off. Love maple anything. Of course you know I’m probably going to throw in some raisins to help with my addiction. Can’t wait to try this.
like having dessert for breakfast…then you get all day to work it off. <---- kind of like eating the big Thanksgiving meal at lunch rather than dinner so you have the rest of the day to at least work it off, right :) And I love raisins too but it seems no one else does! They'd be GREAT in this!
Baked French toast is the best, because again, no standing over the stove nonsense! You can actually sit down with your family and eat with them instead of feeling like a short order cook.
But using bagels? Wow, that is some inspiration. I love it! Never even occurred to me, and now I know I’ve been missing out. Genius!
They were SO good in the French toast. I mean such a new texture that I had never had before in a French toast and just loved it!
Oh my. This recipe is a complete winner in my book. We have a grocery store nearby that makes fresh bagels daily including a french toast cinnamon bagel. I might need to make these this weekend. The house will be flood with the smells of cinnamon and maple. I can’t wait.
That is amazing you have a local store that makes those kind of bagels, fresh and daily. Wow, now THAT is nice! The scent while this bakes is just beyond.all.amazing.
I never had something like that before. But my mouth is watering already… :( I need sweet stuff… haha