🌷🫐 Blueberry Cream Cheese French Toast Bake 🐣💗

A soft, custardy French toast bake layered with sweet cream cheese and juicy blueberries, topped with a buttery crumble and baked to golden perfection—an easy, make-ahead Easter brunch favorite.

🛒 Ingredients

For the casserole:

• 1 loaf French bread (or brioche), cut into cubes
• 8 oz cream cheese, cubed
• 1 cup fresh blueberries (or frozen)
• 8 large eggs
• 2 cups milk
• ½ cup heavy cream
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cinnamon

For the topping (optional but SO good):

• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup flour
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ¼ cup butter, cold + cubed

👩‍🍳 Instructions

1. Assemble

• Grease a 9×13 baking dish
• Add half the bread cubes
• Sprinkle cream cheese + blueberries
• Top with remaining bread

2. Make Custard

• Whisk: eggs, milk, cream, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon
• Pour evenly over the casserole

👉 Gently press bread so it soaks it all up

3. Chill (Important!)

• Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight

4. Add Topping

• Mix brown sugar, flour, cinnamon
• Cut in butter until crumbly
• Sprinkle over top before baking

5. Bake

• Bake at 350°F for 45–50 minutes
• Center should be set, top golden

🍓 Serve With

• Powdered sugar
• Maple syrup
• Extra blueberries

🌷🫐 Blueberry Cream Cheese French Toast Bake 🐣💗

Lightly sweet, perfectly creamy, and filled with fresh blueberry flavor, this overnight French toast bake is the perfect balance of indulgent and effortless.

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Servings: 8

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• For the casserole:
• 1 loaf French bread or brioche, cut into cubes
• 8 oz cream cheese cubed
• 1 cup fresh blueberries or frozen
• 8 large eggs
• 2 cups milk
• ½ cup heavy cream
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• For the topping optional but SO good:
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup flour
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ¼ cup butter cold + cubed

Method

 

1. Assemble
2. Grease a 9×13 baking dish
3. Add half the bread cubes
4. Sprinkle cream cheese + blueberries
5. Top with remaining bread
6. Make Custard
7. Whisk: eggs, milk, cream, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon
8. Pour evenly over the casserole
9. 👉 Gently press bread so it soaks it all up
10. Chill (Important!)
11. Cover and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight
12. Add Topping
13. Mix brown sugar, flour, cinnamon
14. Cut in butter until crumbly
15. Sprinkle over top before baking
16. Bake
17. Bake at 350°F for 45–50 minutes
18. Center should be set, top golden
19. 🍓 Serve With
20. Powdered sugar
21. Maple syrup
22. Extra blueberries

Notes

• Use brioche if you can → softer, richer
• Add lemon zest to the custard for a fresh spring flavor 🍋
• If using frozen blueberries, don’t thaw (prevents bleeding color)