Bananas Foster French Toast Casserole is a majorly mouthwatering breakfast casserole! Made with cinnamon rolls, cream, and a delicious banana topping!
Now this french toast casserole is in fact the breakfast of champions. What’s not to love here? The base of the dish is diced up refrigerator cinnamon rolls soaked in vanilla and cinnamon cream. Then, the real magic happens when it comes out of the oven and is topped with irresistible bananas foster sauce! I have several french toast dishes like my Blueberry French Toast Casserole and my Ham & Cheese Tater Tot Breakfast Casserole, but this one has easily moved into first place. You’ll love that it takes about 5-10 minutes to put the base together, then the sauce comes together while it bakes. So easy!
How To Make Bananas Foster French Toast Casserole:
- Start by preheating your oven and generously buttering a 9×13 inch baking dish.
- You’ll use 2 packages that each have 8 refrigerated cinnamon rolls. Lay the rolls out on a cutting board and slice each into 6 pieces, then lay them evenly in your baking dish.
- In a large bowl whisk together your eggs, cream, flour, cinnamon, and vanilla extract. Pour evenly over the casserole and bake as directed in the recipe card below.
How To Make The Bananas Foster Sauce:
Typically, bananas foster sauce has rum, and you can add some in if you’d like. I chose to leave it out of this dish to keep it as family friendly as possible. Be sure to read my notes in the recipe card if you’d like to ad rum!
- Melt your butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
- Whisk in the brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, and salt.
- Bring the mixture to a bubble and whisk constantly for 2 minutes.
- Stir in the sliced bananas and pecans.
- Pour the sauce immediately over the casserole when it comes out of the oven.
This one is obviously a splurge, so you might as well as enjoy it with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream too!
Enjoy!
~Nichole
Bananas Foster French Toast Casserole
Ingredients
- 2 (8 Count Each) Tubes Cinnamon Rolls
- 1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
- 3 Large Eggs
- 1 Tablespoon All Purpose Flour
- 2 Teaspoons Cinnamon
- 2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
FOR THE SAUCE:
- 1 Stick 1/2 Cup Butter
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
- 5 Bananas Sliced Into Rounds
- 1/3 Cup Chopped Pecans
- Vanilla Ice Cream For Serving, Optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish with butter and set aside.
- Separate the cinnamon rolls out into 8 rolls per tube and cut each roll into 6 pieces. Place in prepared baking dish in an even layer.
- In a large bowl whisk together the cream, eggs, flour, cinnamon, and vanilla.
- Pour the cream mixture over the rolls and bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes until golden and cooked through.
- Meanwhile, make the sauce during the last 10-15 minutes of the casseroles cooking time.
FOR THE SAUCE:
- Melt the butter in a medium sauce pan over medium heat.
- Whisk in the brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt. Bring to a bubble while whisking constantly.
- Stir in the sliced bananas and chopped pecans and stir gently for 1-2 minutes until heated through.
- Pour the sauce evenly over the cooked casserole.
- Serve the casserole immediately, topped with ice cream if desired.
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This is so perfect in so many ways! I love French toast casseroles, but I REALLY love when there’s a delicious twist! Pinning this to make this weekend!
Looks like I found my new favorite brunch recipe! That sauce is so decadent. Thanks for a great recipe!
I haven’t fixed banana’s foster in years, but I love the flavor. This is such a fun version to try.
Ha HA! I love the splurge part with the ice cream and I couldn’t agree more! My husband is a LOVER or french toast and he will be all over this recipe! Such a wonderful breakfast treat for mother’s day or father’s day!
This looks incredible! What a fancy breakfast that everyone will love! It would be nice for Easter brunch.
I love the combination of Banana’s and pecans, they go so well with each other. This Breakfast feels so Royal, my kids would surely love to have it for breakfast and I’m definitely giving this a shot
Sorry. Where and how to add rum and how much? Thanks.
I found this recipe at just the perfect time. My niece LOVES banana foster and she’s coming over this weekend, so I get to be a hero and make this for her! It looks easy and delicious!!
How delicious does this look!? Drooling! I think this would make such a wonderful Easter weekend breakfast! Bananas foster is so yummy!
I always serve a french toast casserole for Mother’s day brunch…this would be perfect. Can’t wait to try! Thanks for sharing and for the tip on not making it ahead!