Caramel Overnight Baked French Toast (All Things Thrifty recipe)

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 1 1/2 c. Cream or Half and Half
• 1 1/2 c. Milk {we use 2%}
• 2 tsp Vanilla
• 1/4 tsp. Cinnamon
• 2-3 Day Old Baguettes or any other dense bread or rolls {we love to use Jimmy Johns Day Old Bread}
• Caramel Sauce:
• 3/4 c. Butter
• 3 T. Karo Syrup
• 1 1/3 c. Brown Sugar
• Caramel/Cinnamon Syrup:
• 3/4 c Butter
• 2 c Sugar
• 1 c Buttermilk
• 3 Tbsp Karo Syrup
• 1 Tbsp Cinnamon
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp vanilla

Instructions

1. Spray a 9X13 pan with non-stick cooking spray.
2. Cut your bread in diagonal pieces about 1 inch thick and layer them in the pan until it fills the entire pan. We stacked three layers of bread on top of each other.
3. Mix the eggs, cream, milk, vanilla, and cinnamon together with your blender or hand mixer and pour over your bread evenly.
4. Put saran wrap over the top of your pan and put it into the fridge overnight.
5. The next morning:
6. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
7. Make your caramel sauce by placing butter, karo syrup, and brown sugar into a small sauce pan until it boils.
8. Pour caramel sauce over the top of the bread evenly.
9. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.
10. {place a piece of tin foil beneath the pan to catch drippings of caramel that may spill during baking}
11. Top with whipped cream, Cinnamon/Caramel Syrup, and powdered sugar.
12. Caramel Syrup:
13. Melt Butter,
14. Add Sugar, Milk, Corn Syrup
15. Mix and heat until dissolved.
16. Add Soda-stir constantly as soda makes mixture bubble high!
17. Add cinnamon & vanilla
18. Serve Warm.