French Toast Casserole

Last night for dinner, I had planned we were going to have French toast to help us use up the remaining hot dog buns and bread crusts. Usually, I ask David to do dinner when it's something breakfast because it's one of the few things he can cook well. But he ended up having to work late so I had to make dinner. I debated switching to something else and leave the French toast for him to do a different night but then I had the idea of doing a French toast casserole (much less tedious than doing French toast on a griddle).

Ingredients:
6 T butter
2/3 cup brown sugar plus extra for sprinkling
stale bread (I used 3 hot dog buns and 5 slices of regular white bread), ripped or cut up
5 eggs
2 cups milk
splash of vanilla
cinnamon

Melt butter (either on stove top or in microwave in 30 second intervals). Stir in the brown sugar until smooth. Pour in the bottom of an 8x11 pan. Add bread. In a bowl, mix together eggs, milk, vanilla, and cinnamon. Pour over bread, being sure to saturate the bread. Sprinkle extra brown sugar and cinnamon on top. Bake at 425 for 25 minutes.

This turned out so good. I thought it might've been just a little too egg-y and needed more milk but David and the kids thought it was perfect. The butter and brown sugar on the bottom is amazing too!