HAM AND CHEESE BREAKFAST CASSEROLE is our favorite make ahead breakfast for any special occasion. This easy breakfast casserole with ham, cheese, bread, eggs, herbs, and more is just so delicious! This cheesy ham and egg casserole is sure to please everyone and it’s just so easy to make!
Breakfast Casserole with Ham, Egg and Cheese
This ham and cheese breakfast casserole with ham, egg, cheese and more is an easy make ahead breakfast for busy mornings or weekend guests!
Welcome to one of my favorite recipes of the year! I am OBSESSED with this easy and amazingly delicious HAM AND CHEESE BREAKFAST CASSEROLE and I hope you love it as much as we do. It’s so hearty, creamy, SIMPLE, and bursting with flavor. I was excited about this ham and egg casserole from the start, but after eating it for about 4 mornings straight, I was even more excited! I just never seem to get tired of it.
This ham, egg, and cheese casserole heats up like a dream, it is absolutely addicting, and it really fills you up for a full day ahead. You’re looking at my new go-to breakfast for any time friends or family come into town. This make ahead breakfast casserole with ham and cheese is just simply sure to please. Come on over!
This Egg, Ham and Cheese Breakfast Casserole is the perfect make ahead breakfast recipe for all occasions!
Easy Ham and Cheese Breakfast Casserole
This Ham and Cheese Casserole is loaded with Challah Bread, ham, cheese, herbs, and eggs. It’s just so cozy and savory…a dream breakfast! I LOVE a casserole for breakfast because you can prep it the night before and just bake it when you’re ready to serve your guests or your family. Anything to make mornings easier is a plus for me.
I’m no morning person! I’m always looking for quick and simple ways to make mornings delicious and simple. This breakfast casserole with ham and egg does it all!
How to Make Ham and Egg Casserole
This easy make ahead breakfast casserole with ham, egg, and cheese is sooo delicious, so savory, and so simple to make. I love that you can prepare this ham and egg casserole the night before, let it sit in the fridge overnight, and then wake up and put it straight in the oven to bake! Of course you can make it and bake it all at once, but I much prefer to NOT cook first thing in the morning.
If you don’t love ham, you could stuff this with whatever add-ons you love best! You could make it a veggie casserole, make it with spicy sausage, or even use pizza flavors. The sky is the limit and you can’t go wrong. I plan to try lots of different varieties, but I am partial to this ham and cheese version. Just simple flavors, prep, and big love.
Make Ahead Breakfast Casserole Recipe
Make ahead recipes are my favorite, especially in the morning. When I have guests staying over, I really want to make sure they have a nice breakfast to wake up to…but I definitely don’t want to get up early to make it.
This ham and cheese breakfast casserole solves that problem because you can prepare it the night before, keep it in the refrigerator overnight, and then just bake it when you wake up. No early morning cooking, just simply heat up this breakfast casserole with ham in no time!
I hope you give this Ham and Cheese Casserole a try and I hope you love it as much as our family does! An easy breakfast casserole with ham, egg, cheese, bread, herbs, and more…so tasty! If you try other flavors and fall in love, please let me know. I’d love to hear about them.
Watch the Video and See the recipe card for details on how to make Cheesy Ham and Egg Casserole. Enjoy!
If you like this breakfast casserole with ham, try these other breakfast recipes too:
- Croissant French Toast Casserole
- Quiche Lorraine recipe
- Biscuit Breakfast Casserole
- Sheet Pan Breakfast Pizza
- Cheesy Baked Breakfast Sliders
- Chocolate Covered Strawberry Baked Oatmeal
- Eggs Benedict Casserole with Blender Hollandaise Sauce
- Egg Frittata
Ham and Cheese Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
- 4 cups day-old, challah or brioche bread, cut into 1-inch cubes.
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 medium sweet yellow onion peeled and diced
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon granulated sugar
- ½ lb. thinly-sliced good deli ham roughly cut
- 6 large eggs
- 1½ cups milk or half ‘n half
- ½ teaspoon dry mustard
- ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves minced
- Salt & Pepper to taste
- 1 cup shredded Gruyere or Swiss cheese
Instructions
- Spray an 8-inch baking dish (1½-2 qt) with non-stick cooking spray.
- Spread the cubed bread in the bottom of the dish.
- Heat oil and butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add diced onion, salt, black pepper and sugar. Sauté until onions are lightly caramelized, approximately 10 minutes. Be careful not to burn the onion.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, half and half, dry mustard, nutmeg, thyme, salt and pepper.
- Spread the ham over the bread cubes, then spread the onion mixture on top of the ham. Layer on the Gruyere or Swiss cheese then pour the egg mixture over the cheese.
- Press down gently on the top to ensure all bread cubes get soaked with the egg mixture. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Before baking, warm the casserole on the counter for 15 minutes and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Bake, uncovered, 40-50 minutes or until center is set and edges are bubbly and top begins to brown. A knife inserted in the center should come out clean.
- If casserole is browning too soon, loosely cover it with foil near the end of the cooking time.
- The casserole is delicious served any meal.
- Enjoy!
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Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Did you make this? Leave a comment!
Can I substitute the Brioche like you’re using with a loaf (like a loaf of bread) but Brioche? My store is out of Brioche right now and I’m wanting to make this so badly and submit a picture. The review with 4 stars is wrong. I guess I accidentally missed a star, so please delete that one. Thanks in advance
Hi Donna, brioche is our favorite for this recipe, but other types of bread will also work!
Sweet Heaven! This is sooo decadent and delicious!!!
Thanks for sharing, Sandi!
This is really good for everyone
Thanks Jenny!
This was easy and tasted great.
Really a great breakfast for morning. I want to have it. I’ll try to make it at home hope it will be good.
Thanks for shearing that great recipe.
Awesome, hope you love it!
Oh also, I added green pepper like a previous commenter and used regular mustard so maybe the liquid from those didn’t balance out?
I’m new to cooking and I made this and the knife wasn’t clear after 35 minutes or 50 so I let it sit longer. Maybe 10 minutes. The knife was clean when i tried it after in the center and all over. The center doesn’t seem set like your pictures lol it seems kind of wobbly so I was worried it didn’t get all the way cooked?
Hmm…the alterations you made shoudln’t have made things runny so I’m not sure what could be wrong. Did it cook all the way through? I hope so! Hope you loved it. Some ovens vary so you might have to cook longer or if your pan is at all different (resulting in a deeper or more shallow casserole) the cook time would be a little different as well. If yours was deeper it might just have needed some more time to cook. Sorry you had trouble!
Ingrediant list calls for dry mustard but tHe instructions lack any mention of when To add it…
Thanks for pointing that out! I updated the recipe :)
Can this be doubled or i it t mu for a 13×9 pan?
Yes that should work great!
This looks tasty! It would be ideal for a healthy, end of the week breakfast.
Thanks so much!