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This sweet and cozy baked French toast skillet is perfect when you want an easy, crowd-pleasing breakfast or brunch. Using canned biscuits as a shortcut, the dish comes together quickly and bakes up golden and fluffy in a cast iron skillet. Each bite is rich with maple and cinnamon, while the strawberries and glaze on top add freshness and sweetness. Whether you’re serving guests or treating yourself to a lazy weekend breakfast, this is the kind of dish that keeps everyone coming back for more.
This baked French toast skillet is made with biscuit dough, eggs, cinnamon, and strawberries. It’s a quick and easy breakfast that tastes bakery-worthy.
Also try this Bailey’s no bake cheesecake pie, lemon poppy seed muffins, cherry cheesecake popsicles or classic French toast.
Why You’ll Love It
Easy to make: Uses shortcut ingredients but delivers homemade flavor.
Perfect for sharing: Ideal for brunch, holidays or lazy weekend mornings.
Customizable: Swap out the fruit or tweak the glaze to suit your taste.
Kid-approved: Sweet, soft and fun to eat.
Looks impressive: That skillet presentation is always a win.
Baked French Toast Skillet Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Biscuits: Store-bought canned biscuit dough makes prep quick and easy.
Eggs: Create a rich custard base to soak the biscuit pieces.
Heavy cream: Adds richness to the egg mixture.
Maple extract: Infuses the dish with classic breakfast flavor.
Cinnamon sugar: Coats each biscuit bite for sweetness and spice.
Butter: Greases the skillet and adds flavor.
Powdered sugar: Forms the base of the sweet vanilla glaze.
Vanilla extract: Enhances the frosting with warm flavor.
Milk: Thins the frosting to the perfect drizzle.
Strawberries: Fresh and juicy, they brighten every bite.
How to Make a French Toast Skillet
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Make the custard: Whisk together eggs, cream and maple extract.
Coat the dough: Dip biscuit balls in the egg mixture, then roll in cinnamon sugar.
Prepare the pan: Grease a cast iron skillet with butter.
Assemble and bake: Add the coated biscuits to the skillet and bake until golden.
Frost and top: Drizzle with vanilla glaze and add diced strawberries before serving.
Substitutions and Variations
Use crescent rolls: Swap biscuits for crescent roll dough for a different texture.
Add nuts: Sprinkle chopped pecans or walnuts for crunch.
Try other fruits: Blueberries or peaches work beautifully here too.
Serving Suggestions
With savory dishes: Enjoy this delicious skillet bake for brunch, perhaps paired with bacon, eggs benedict, egg muffins with a whole boiled egg inside or breakfast tacos.
With other sweet dishes: You could also pair it up with pistachio muffins or one of these easy fruit muffin recipes.
How to Store Baked French Toast Skillet
Store: Keep leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator and eat within 2 days.
Freeze: Don’t freeze this dish, as it would just go mushy.
Reheat: You can warm it back up in the microwave or oven.
Top Tips
Cut biscuits evenly: This helps everything bake at the same rate.
Don’t overmix the frosting: Whisk just until smooth.
Serve warm: The texture and flavor are best when fresh from the oven.
Use a deep skillet: Gives the biscuits room to rise and brown evenly.
French Toast Bake FAQs
French toast was invented by Joseph French in 1724. That’s right – it’s named after a person and is nothing to do with France! However, if you go back even further in time, the Romans used to soak milk in eggs and milk and fry it in butter or oil, and that was back in the early 5th century. It’s a great recipe for stale bread, which is why medieval Europeans made a very similar dish. After all, there’s no reason to waste stale bread when you can make a tasty breakfast or brunch with it! If you have bagels which are past their prime, try this bagel breakfast bake instead.
This recipe is delicious with refrigerated cinnamon rolls if you don’t have any Grands biscuits. Using those would mean omitting the cinnamon from the recipe, else the finished French toast bake recipe might be a case of cinnamon overload! If you experiment with anything else, let me know how your French toast bake recipe comes out!
Baked French Toast Maple Cinnamon Skillet Recipe
Baked French Toast Skillet
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 Cans biscuits , I used Pillsbury Grands
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 Cup heavy cream
- 1 Teaspoon maple extract
- 1 Cup granulated sugar
- 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 Cup butter
- 3 1/4 Cup powdered sugar
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 Tablespoon milk
- 1 Cup strawberries, diced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Whisk together eggs, heavy cream and maple extract in a mixing bowl.
- In a separate bowl, combine cinnamon and sugar.
- Remove biscuits from the can. Roll each individual biscuit into a ball, then dip into the egg mix.
- Allow excess eggs to drip off. Roll the biscuits in the cinnamon sugar.
- Butter a cast iron skillet.
- Add biscuits to the skillet and place into the oven. Bake for 15 minutes
- Meanwhile, prepare frosting. In a medium mixing bowl, combine butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and milk. Whisk until smooth.
- Remove biscuits from the oven. Drizzle with frosting and sprinkle strawberries over the top. Serve warm.
Notes
Don’t overmix the frosting: Whisk just until smooth.
Serve warm: The texture and flavor are best when fresh from the oven.
Use a deep skillet: Gives the biscuits room to rise and brown evenly.
Nutrition
This baked French toast skillet is one of those recipes that feels fancy but comes together in minutes. With soft cinnamon-coated biscuit bites, a rich maple custard, and sweet frosting, it delivers on both flavor and comfort. The fresh strawberries on top bring just the right touch of brightness. Whether you serve this at brunch, for a holiday breakfast, or just because, it’s a guaranteed hit.
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
This French toast bake was a breakfast dream. Everyone devoured it!
This one exceeded my expectations! So flavorful!
I am obsessed with this recipe. It is a new favorite!
Yay!
Can’t get easier than this one. Looks like a recipe I can make!