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This apple pie baked french toast is made from savory challah bread, with apple pie fruit filling and spices. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar, whipped cream, or even caramel sauce!
This post is sponsored by Lucky Leaf. All opinions and thoughts are 100% my own.
Today I have teamed up with Lucky Leaf to bring you a fabulous way to use their delicious apple fruit filling.
That means, if you’re looking for an easy breakfast or brunch treat to warm up your family and guests check out this post!
This apple pie baked french toast is made from delicious challah bread, with a luscious custard made from heavy cream, eggs, and milk, with sweet apple pie filling and spices, and flavored with maple and vanilla extracts.
It’s so easy to whip up and pull together when we take help from the grocery store by buying Lucky Leaf apple fruit filling!
Trust me, it only takes 10 minutes to mix everything together but it’ll taste like you spent all day preparing this apple pie french toast!
Ingredients for apple pie baked French toast
- Challah bread – Challah bread can easily be found in the bakery section of most major grocery stores. Make sure it’s a day old–the drier, the better!
- Heavy cream and whole milk – These kinds of milk will provide moisture and fat to our custard.
- Eggs – A necessary ingredient needed for the custard of the French toast.
- Apple pie spice – This blend of spices can be found in the spice aisle of the grocery store.
- Apple pie fruit filling – The apple pie fruit filling can be found in the baking aisle of the grocery store.
- Maple and vanilla extracts – Maple and vanilla are both flavors that will compliment the apple well and give us that perfect fall flavor combination.
Using canned fruit filling
Since I teamed up with Lucky Leaf for this post, I thought it was important to let you all know why using canned fruit filling saves time and is a delicious addition to your holiday baking!
Lucky Leaf fruit filling contains no high-fructose corn syrup and is PACKED full of fruit in every can. Plus, they are a cooperative, which means their company is owned by the fruit farmers who help make their products.
Canned fruit filling also works better for this recipe as there is not a lot of added moisture to the French toast bake.
This helps ensure the bread is not overly soggy, and the apples stay firm.
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What is Challah bread?
Challah is a Jewish bread made from eggs, sugar, water, yeast, flour, and oil.
It is dense, slightly sweet, and perfect for french toast because it absorbs the custard while still keeping its shape and not disintegrating.
It can be found at bakeries and in the bakery section of most major grocery stores.
Be sure to leave the bread out for a day to dry; this also ensures that the bread soaks up all the delicious custard and spices!
Other fruit fillings
I’ve chosen apple pie fruit filling for this apple pie baked French toast, but you can feel free to use your favorite Lucky Leaf fruit filling favorites, like blueberry, cherry, or even peach!
In fact, this blueberry cream cheese French toast bake is the perfect fruity breakfast!
Topping Ideas
You don’t need a topping, but I can’t resist! Here are some topping ideas:
- Powdered sugar
- Whipped cream
- Maple syrup
- Caramel syrup
Storage and leftovers
Leftovers of this apple pie baked french toast can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
To reheat, simply place in a microwave-safe dish covered loosely with a damp paper towel and heat for 1-2 minutes or until heated thoroughly.
More breakfast and brunch recipes
- Need more french toast ideas? Try my Cherry Yogurt French Toast Cups
- Love all things sweet? Try my Blueberry Lemon Pound Cake
- Craving more apples? Try my Air Fryer Apple Fritters
- Want something savory? Try my Bacon Onion Herb Quiche
Apple Pie Baked French Toast
Ingredients
- 1 16-ounce loaf of day old challah bread, cubed
- 6 large eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons apple pie spice
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste, or vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon maple extract
- 1 21 ounce can Lucky Leaf apple fruit filling
Instructions
- Add your cubed challah to a large mixing bowl and spray a 9×13 baking dish with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl add eggs, milk, heavy cream, maple syrup, apple pie spice, vanilla bean paste, and maple extract.
- Whisk until smooth and the eggs are incorporated.
- Pour the milk and egg mixture over the challah and gently toss to make sure all the bread equally absorbs the liquid. If the mixture looks too dry add up to ½ cup more milk. This will depend on your bread. If it's a few days old it will be dryer and may soak up more liquid.
- Add the challah bread to the prepared 9×13 dish.
- Top the bread with the Lucky Leaf apple fruit filling. Making sure to equally cover the top of the bread so that each spoonful will get some apple chunks.
- Cover the dish and let sit in the fridge for at least an hour and up to 12 hours. You can opt to bake right away but you'll want to make sure you have drier bread so that the bread has likely soaked up all the mixture.
- When you're ready to bake preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and bake uncovered for 40-45 minutes or until firm and slightly browned on top.
- Serve plain, drizzled with maple syrup, sprinkled with powdered sugar, topped with whipped cream, or drizzled with caramel sauce.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Can this recipe be doubled?
@Patricia, Yes! But you’ll need to cook it in 2 9×13 dishes.
Looks yummy
This looks like a Christmas breakfast! Company would love. Saving it!
It looks so delicious and easy! This is such an easy and delicious recipe, I cannot wait to make it again!