Cranberry Orange Croissant French Toast Bake
This Cranberry Orange Croissant French Toast Bake is rich, flavourful and delicious! Made with buttery croissants, milk, eggs, vanilla, orange zest and fresh cranberries, this dish is quick and easy to assemble. Can be made ahead of time.
Servings 8
Ingredients
- 10 croissants
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups light cream half + half or whole milk
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 2 tbsp fresh orange zest zest from 1 orange
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup chopped fresh cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Lightly grease an oven safe 9 × 13 baking dish with butter (or a large, deep pie plate like I used here).
- Cut the croissants into bite sized pieces.10 croissants
- Chop fresh cranberries, you need 3/4 cup chopped.3/4 cup chopped fresh cranberries
- Use a zester or grater to zest the orange, then juice it.
- In a mixing bowl mix together the eggs, cream, brown sugar, vanilla and orange juice. I like to use a hand blender to do this so the mixture is smooth and creamy. Then stir in the orange zest.4 large eggs, 1 1/2 cups light cream, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, 2 tbsp fresh orange zest
- Lay half of the cut croissants in the baking dish. Squish them together as much as you can. See picture above.
- Pour half of the egg/milk mixture over the croissants, making sure to soak all pieces from top down. You can lightly press the croissants into the egg mixture.
- Sprinkle on half of the chopped cranberries.
- Then lay on the remaining cut croissants.
- Pour on the remaining egg/milk mixture and sprinkle on the remaining cranberries.
- Lightly press down on the croissants so they soak up as much of the egg/milk mixture as possible.
- Now let it rest for at least 30 minutes so the croissants have time to soak up the wet ingredients.
- Then bake covered with aluminum foil for 30 minutes.
- After this time, remove the foil and bake for an additional 40 minutes, or until the french toast has puffed up and the the centre of the french toast bake isn’t jiggly.
- Serve with syrup.