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Dinner Roll French Toast Bake

November 28, 2015 by Lindsay 17 Comments

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This Dinner Roll French Toast Bake is the perfect recipe to use up leftover dinner rolls after a holiday meal. Prep the night before, let it sit in the fridge overnight and enjoy it for breakfast in the morning. 

This Dinner Roll French Toast Bake is the perfect recipe to use up leftover dinner rolls after a holiday meal. Prep the night before, let it sit in the fridge overnight and enjoy it for breakfast in the morning.
Hi Friends!

Just popping in with another quick, easy and delicious way to use up some of those holiday leftovers. In case you missed it yesterday, be sure to check out these Cranberry Meatballs – a great way to use up some of your leftover cranberry sauce.

Today we’re talking dinner rolls.

As I mentioned, this year I was in charge of bringing dinner rolls. I picked them up from Costco, where they come in a sizeable bag (ie 3 dozen). Needless to say, we had a few leftover. We divided them up so everyone could take some home, so I came home with 6. I decided to put them to use by turning them into an overnight french toast bake. Since my sister was coming into town, I increased the quantity by cubing up 1/2 a loaf of italian bread as well – so I essentially had the equivalent of about 12 dinner rolls.

This Dinner Roll French Toast Bake is the perfect recipe to use up leftover dinner rolls after a holiday meal. Prep the night before, let it sit in the fridge overnight and enjoy it for breakfast in the morning.

 

This recipe is pretty forgiving so you could probably get by with plus or minus a couple rolls. Mine ended up being roughly 10 cups of cubed rolls/bread. Basically, you just need enough to loosely fill a 9×13 pan. This is perfect for prepping ahead of time the night before so it will be ready to pop in the oven in the morning.

Here’s how you make it:

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This Dinner Roll French Toast Bake is the perfect recipe to use up leftover dinner rolls after a holiday meal. Prep the night before, let it sit in the fridge overnight and enjoy it for breakfast in the morning.

  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 1 hour
  • Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
  • Yield: 9x13 pan 1x
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Ingredients

  • 12 dinner rolls (or approx 10 cups cubed rolls/bread)
  • 3 cups fresh or frozen berries
  • 8 eggs
  • 1 3/4 cup milk
  • 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • brown sugar for sprinkling (optional)

Instructions

  1. Cube rolls and place in a well-greased 9×13 pan.
  2. Add berries.
  3. In a bowl, mix eggs, milk, vanilla and cinnamon with a whisk.
  4. Pour over bread mixture in pan.
  5. Use your hands to make sure all the bread gets covered with the egg mixture.
  6. Cover with saran wrap and place in the fridge overnight (if desired).
  7. Sprinkle top with brown sugar if desired.
  8. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 min – 1 hour depending on desired degree of doneness.

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If you had leftover cranberry sauce you could mix some of that in as well! You could also try lining the bottom of the pan with parchment paper for easier removal!

This Dinner Roll French Toast Bake is the perfect recipe to use up leftover dinner rolls after a holiday meal. Prep the night before, let it sit in the fridge overnight and enjoy it for breakfast in the morning.

Hope you guys enjoy! Ours is almost gone!

Use up your leftover dinner rolls in this French Toast Bake from @leangrnbeanblog!

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Enjoy!
–Lindsay–

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Comments

  1. Katie @ Talk Less, Say More says

    November 28, 2015 at 6:03 AM

    What a great idea!

    Reply
  2. Megan @ Skinny Fitalicious says

    November 28, 2015 at 7:42 AM

    Yum! I shouldn’t be reading blogs before breakfast because now I’m starving!

    Reply
  3. Liz @ I Heart Vegetables says

    November 28, 2015 at 5:36 PM

    This is GENIUS! This sounds so amazing. I don’t have leftover rolls but I might have to go buy some just to try this haha

    Reply
  4. Emily says

    November 30, 2015 at 1:05 AM

    This looks so tasty. 🙂 We actually have dinner rolls so that might mean some french toast in the future.

    Reply
  5. Angela @ happy fit mama says

    November 30, 2015 at 5:38 AM

    Yum! Saving this for Christmas when I’ll have a house full of guests.

    Reply
  6. Christie says

    November 30, 2015 at 7:56 AM

    Love the berries in this. What a great idea for leftover rolls. We always seem to have leftover.

    Reply
  7. Natalie @ A Fit Philosophy says

    November 30, 2015 at 10:30 AM

    wowza! This looks bomb diggity!

    Reply
  8. rachel @ Athletic Avocado says

    November 30, 2015 at 12:58 PM

    This is the perfect use for leftover dinner rolls!! I love the no-waste policy! pinned 🙂

    Reply
  9. Krysten Siba Bishop says

    November 30, 2015 at 1:58 PM

    My MIL was just saying that she wanted to change up our Christmas Morning recipe. I think this may be it!

    Reply
  10. Sarah says

    November 25, 2017 at 8:21 PM

    No berries on hand. Do you think drizzingly a little raspberry jam would work out?

    Reply
    • Lindsay says

      November 27, 2017 at 7:39 AM

      yep! it’d be great!

      Reply
  11. Debby says

    January 7, 2018 at 1:33 PM

    Delish! I made this with frozen blueberries and it was really, really good! I will do this again!

    Reply
    • Lindsay says

      January 7, 2018 at 2:35 PM

      awesome! i usually use frozen blueberries too!

      Reply

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