Making breakfast for dinner once a week is a SUREFIRE way to bring your weekly meal costs and your overall grocery bill down a bit! This dish would also be great for a brunch/potluck or weekend breakfast. Just double the recipe and make in a 9×13-inch baking dish.
If you’ve got milk, eggs, bread, the spices and some apples in the fridge, you should totally make this. Like right now.
Caramel Apple Breakfast Casserole
This dish would also be great for a brunch/potluck or weekend breakfast. Just double the recipe and make in a 9×13-inch baking dish.
Servings - 4 servings
Ingredients
- 6 eggs ($.60)
- 1 cup milk ($.10) I used rice milk
- 1 tsp cinnamon ($.05)
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg ($.02)
- 4 medium or 3 large apples, ($1) On sale 4/$1 this week! peeled and diced
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted ($.40) I used a dairy-free margarine
- 1/4 cup brown sugar ($.20)
- 1 tsp cinnamon ($.05)
- 6 slices of bread, torn ($.30)
- 1/2 Cantaloupe ($.75) On sale 2 weeks ago for $1.49!
- Syrup (optional...I thought it sweet enough and syrup unnecessary!)
- 6-8 Sausage Links or Turkey bacon ($1.49)
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, whisk eggs, milk, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Peel and dice the apples. In a smaller mixing bowl, combine melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Toss with diced apples.
- In a greased 8×8-inch glass baking dish, tear 3 slices of bread and add to the bottom. Then add a layer of the diced caramel apples.
- Tear the other 3 slices of bread and spread on top of the apples.
- Pour egg/milk mixture into the baking dish. Cover with foil and let stand in the refrigerator for at least an hour (overnight, ideally!). Preheat oven to 350.
- Bake covered for 30 minutes, then uncover and bake another 15-20 minutes, or until eggs have cooked through.
- Serve Caramel Apple Breakfast Casserole with fresh fruit and sausage or bacon.