BLUEBERRY PANCAKE FRENCH TOAST BAKE

May 27, 2014

Yielding pancakes for a crowd will have you chained to your stove while said crowd is having fun, socializing, and making memories without you. (Which would be good for you to have that servant’s heart, but your loved ones want you with them too.) Sometimes I make and freeze pancakes in advance, then thaw them and pull this breakfast casserole together the day-of. If the name of this recipe has your mind bending, these are pancakes, made like a baked french toast. Did that make sense?

Don’t worry; you’ll see.

BLUEBERRY PANCAKE FRENCH TOAST BAKE from Rachel Schultz

BLUEBERRY PANCAKE FRENCH TOAST BAKE
Serves 8-10

2 batches (15 individual) old fashioned pancakes
6 eggs
1 and 1/2 cups milk
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, sliced at room temperature
1 cup blueberries
Powdered sugar
Maple syrup

Slice pancakes in half. Arrange in baking dish in to rows with flat side down. Pour blueberries over pancakes. In a bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla. Pour egg mixture over pancakes. Mash together flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and butter until a crumble forms. Sprinkle over pancakes.

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Chill overnight, or for at least two hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and return pan to room temperature. Bake for 50-60 minutes. Allow to cool. Serve with powdered sugar & maple syrup.

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BLUEBERRY PANCAKE FRENCH TOAST BAKE
 
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Serves: 8-10
Ingredients
  • 2 batches (15 individual) old fashioned pancakes
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 and ½ cups milk
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • ½ cup flour
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup butter, sliced at room temperature
  • 1 cup blueberries
  • Powdered sugar
  • Maple syrup
Instructions
  1. Slice pancakes in half. Arrange in baking dish in to rows with flat side down.
  2. Pour blueberries over pancakes.
  3. In a bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla. Pour egg mixture over pancakes.
  4. Mash together flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt, and butter until a crumble forms. Sprinkle over pancakes.
  5. Chill overnight, or for at least two hours.
  6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and return pan to room temperature. Bake for 50-60 minutes.
  7. Allow to cool. Serve with powdered sugar & maple syrup.

Adapted from Oh Sweet Basil.

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  • Sonia

    Your recipe looks amazing and just wondering if I could use waffles instead of pancakes?

  • Tammy

    I’ve made this blueberry pancake dish many times and a hit every time!!

  • Christine

    Should I cover this while it chills overnight?

  • Melissa M

    This was amazing–the whole family loved it!!

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  • Alison Ludlow

    this became our Christmas morning traditional breakfast about 10 years ago – never straying!

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  • Earlyne

    Made this for supper tonight and it was delicious! I often wonder what to do with an abundance of pancakes (other then freeze them and ultimately forget about them) so was happy to see this recipe and try it. My husband and I both loved it. Thanks for posting! I’ll be trying more of your recipes.

  • Deneen Cole-Ashbury

    I made this today ALL GLUTEN FREE and it was a complete hit! my daughters 19th Birthday ao we had the Grans over for brunch and I wanted something that I could semi prep the night before. I also made the candied bacon and fruit salad and very plain potato has browns and it was wonderful!

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  • i accidentally bought what i thought was frozen waffles but were frozen pankcakes so gave them a try in this recipe. they lined up perfectly in a bread pan after cutting in half. i cut the egg and cream mixture in half and added an extra egg and lemon peel…instead of syrup or powder sugar for topping, i made a lemon icing drizzle…so pretty to serve and flavor was delicious…

  • Maureen

    Could this be put Into a 9×13 crockpot and for how long to cook? Was guessing 2-3 hours on low? What are your thoughts. I have a family brunch after a day long memorial and reception and thought I could assemble in the 9×13 crock, refrigerate, bring it to room temp as the Crocker heats….
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  • Gloria J. Hammond

    This came out delicious! Could be served in a fine restaurant. The consistency of bread pudding. Definitely making this again! Definitely need to make it the night before and let the juices sink into the pancake. Yum!!

  • laurie c. regal

    sounds delicious. must try this. <3 2 u!

  • Queen Elizabeth

    I just made this with commercial food service pancakes and frozen blueberries. It really transformed the the bland pancakes and best of all it looks so pretty. Followed directions as stated but forgot to let it come to room temp before I baked it in the morning. It was still AMAZING. Tastes good with or without syrup.

  • Liza

    Can this recipe be used with mini pancakes?

    • Rachel Schultz

      Yes!

  • GAIL

    I’d like to use my Mom’s pancakes which include sour cream and buttermilk. Would that work?

    • Rachel Schultz

      Yes!

    • Lindsay

      Well, I had leftover pancakes! They always seem so dry and horrible tasting the next day, so I am trying this! Except, I had silk oatmilk creamer with baking soda used 1 cup and 1 cup milk instead of heavy cream. It will be interesting! Thank you for sharing!

  • Julie

    Do you,does anyone, know how long I would cook this if I cut the recipe in half? Thanks in advance.

  • Amber Holtrust

    How can I do this with fresh pamcakes?

    • Brenda J Morin

      I have brunch for my family 4 or 5 times per year. I try to never make the same thing twice. I love to try new recipes on my family. WELL, this recipe is on the menu at EVERY brunch! They definitely stand United when it comes to keeping this recipe on the menu. It is DELICIOUS!

  • Tammy

    Did anyone ever try this with chocolate chips? If so, what quantity did you use? I’m simply assuming it would be amazing…

    • Ms

      If you are making homemade pancakes. What size batch of pancake recipe do you use. My single recipe for pancakes is made with 2 cups of flour. You say2 batches, would this be a four cup recipe ?

  • Char

    Love thi! Can I freeze leftovers and reheatlater?

    • Rachel Schultz

      Definitely!

  • Jessica

    Instead of pancakes could I use Texas Toast?

  • Heidi

    Hi I only have 1 oven and need it to heat up all the other food. Can I cook a day before and just rewarm?
    Lastly did anyone try with chocolate chips instead of blueberries?

  • Marisa M.

    I just made a Gluten free version of this with just replacing the regular pancakes for gluten free ones and using Gluten free flour for the topping. Great for a brunch. It came out AMAzING! Next time i think i will add bananas.

    Happy Holidays!

  • Rachel

    Curious about freezing the casserole before cooking, anyone tried this? Was wanting to space out our pancake consumption( double batch this morning to have leftovers for this) although I am sure no one would complain.

    • Marlo Meyerhofer

      Can you freeze this and store a few days in advance of cooking?

  • Scott

    Not cooking in suggested time

  • Erica

    Just discovered this… Yum! My changes: a thin layer of blueberry cream cheese on the pancakes when assembling them in the pan so it’s between the layers. I also used lowfat vanilla yogurt in place of the heavy cream just because I had it on hand, and then I just cut the sugar and vanilla a little in the egg mixture. Thanks for the recipe!

    • Rachel Schultz

      Great ideas. Thanks Erica.

  • Sarah

    To Annmarie: How long did you chill before baking? Maybe not long enough for the pancakes to absorb the wet ingredients. Just a thought . . .

  • Cameroon benson

    Will sliced bananas work instead of blueberries? Would love to try a variation of bananas foser French toast pancakes!

    • Rachel Schultz

      Yum! Yes, I believe so, although I have not tried it.

  • Annmarie

    OK…think its weird that you would just delete my comment and not respond here or to my email address. It was an honest and fair question I was hoping you would answer so that I could make this for my family. Do you not stand by your recipes? Your website? I would think that you would?

    • Rachel Schultz

      Annmarie, your comment was not deleted; it was awaiting moderation. No comments appear on the site until they are checked for profanity. To your question – with so many variables that could be causing this it would not be possible for me to diagnose the problem. Perhaps an error in measuring

    • Anonymous

      the recipe clearly stated chill overnight

  • Annmarie

    I tried making. Followed directions and not cooking in an hour. To wet. Even after cooking for 2 hours at 350. Thoughts?

  • Pia

    i made this for breakfast in Christmas Day here in New Zealand. So easy to put together the night before. In the oven in the morning while we opened presents and omg so delicious! Not too mention your fantastic pancake recipe… My new go to! Thanks so much- this will be on the celebration food rotations or sure!

  • marco

    If the store is out of blueberries would blueberry pie filling work, or is that to much liquid.

    Thank You & Merry Christmas.

    • Rachel Schultz

      It would work although would be a little different in texture.

  • Amanda lasley

    I just threw this together and I’m serving it in the morning for Christmas breakfast for my 5 girls and husband before we open presents! I’m so excited! It looks delicious! And it was very easy to throw together! Thank you do much for your post!Merry Christmas ! I’ll let ya know how it turns out!

    • Rachel Schultz

      You are welcome! Merry Christmas.

  • Melissa C.

    I just made these tonight, I can’t wait until morning. They look wonderful!! I also love the pancake recipe, I will be using your recipe from now on :) Yumm Yumm thank you for sharing.

  • BW Hardy

    I am an everything blueberry addict and must try this one. I’m wondering what size baking dish you recommend?

    • Rachel Schultz

      9×13

  • Lisa

    I really want to pin this! But the pin link isn’t working, and when I copy the link of the page to try to pin it separately, that isn’t working either. Help! I want to make this for Christmas morning!

  • Hi Rachel, For some reason it took over 10 minutes to download your site. I found you through MSN. My internet is FAST and was not down when I was downloading your info, FYI. Blessings to you, Chrissy Mann
    Merry Christmas!

  • Anonymous

    Could you use frozen raspberries in place of blueberries?

    • Rachel Schultz

      yes!

  • Candy

    The recipe says to layer the pancakes in the pan flat side down but the picture show them up on their edge. Which is it? Thanks.

    • Rachel Schultz

      As pictured – the flat side after the pancakes are cut in half.

  • Anonymous

    These were absolutely delicious. I served this at the ladies Sunday School breakfast and they loved them. I kicked it up another notch by serving along with the powdered sugar and maple syrup – blueberry syrup too. Needless to say everybody ask for the recipe. Thanks for posting!

    • Rachel Schultz

      Yum! Great to hear

  • Anonymous

    I meant to ask can you use store bought frozen pancakes

  • Anonymous

    Can you use frozen pancakes?

    • Rachel Schultz

      Sure!

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  • This is killing me right now. I need to make it immediately! Very nice photos, too.

    • Rachel Schultz

      Thank you Sarah!

  • Yummm! This sounds delicious! Thank you very much. :). :)
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