Gluten-Free Overnight French Toast Casserole Recipe (Guest Worthy) (2024)

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Last Sunday morning we celebrated surviving the blizzard by enjoying gluten-free Overnight French Toast Casserole. It seemed like we should mark the occasion by doing something special, and shoveling snow was not it.

Shoveling snow is a requirement after a blizzard, but most definitely not a way to celebrate. So enjoying French Toast Casserole certainly seemed like the right way to go. I am happy to say that “the right way to go” and “delicious” often go together in my house!

According to several “official” reports, we got somewhere between 15 and 17 inches of snow. At either measurement, we definitely got far less than the predicted “worst case scenario” for our area. And for that we were grateful, as the amount of snow we did get was plenty.

Thankfully, our neighbor has a Kubota tractor that can be outfitted with a blade for snow removal. Mr. GFE helped her get her new blade mounted properly so after she cleared her driveway, she let him use it to clear ours. It was a tremendous help!

We were also thankful that we didn’t lose power during the blizzard. We heat our house with wood. I’m the “keeper of the flame” and Mr. GFE is the wood provider.

If you’re familiar with Aesop’s ant and the grasshopper fable, Mr. GFE would most definitely be the ant as far as being prepared with firewood for the winter.

When the blizzard arrived, we had about a cord of firewood on our patio ready to be used. That was down from two cords a few months back. Needless to say we were not worried about being cold if the power went out, but we were still very happy that we did not lose power.

I “need” my lights during the winter and it would have been impossible to make this gluten-free Overnight French Toast Casserole in my wood stove.

This Overnight French Toast Casserole is a gluten-free version of the same recipe I have used to delight overnight guests for years—now simply made gluten free by using gluten-free bread. That’s it. That’s the only change I made to the original recipe.

I love it when gluten-free “conversions” are super easy! But here’s a confession … before I located my old recipe (which was “hiding” in plain sight in my recipe box), I actually played around with some other ideas trying to recreate it from memory and tasting along the way. I got close to the original recipe, but never got it just right, so it was a relief to find my tried and true recipe a few weeks ago.

By the way, before the blizzard, some gluten-free friends and I were chatting about what people always buy before snowstorms. Toilet paper. Eggs. Bread. Milk.

In the final hours before the blizzard started, more than one gluten-free friend reported that the gluten-full bread and milk were all gone at their local grocery store, but plenty of gluten-free bread and almond milk remained. For once, being gluten free and even dairy free was an advantage! How cool is that?

One of my friends, Debi of Hunter’s Lyonesse noted the eggs, bread, and milk and said, “Hey, they must all be making French Toast!” Sounds so good, right? Snow or no snow.

Make this gluten-free Overnight French Toast Casserole for breakfast, make it for lunch, make it for dinner, make it for family, make it for guests. Make it for the next snowstorm.

Did you survive the blizzard? Did you make something special after (or during) the storm?

Gluten-Free Overnight French Toast Casserole Recipe