Christmas Casserole

• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 2 cans refrigerated cinnamon rolls with icing
• 6 eggs
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup maple syrup
• 1 cup chopped pecans, optional

1. Preheat oven to 375-degrees
2. Pour melted butter into glass 9x13 baking dish
3. Cut each roll into 9 pieces, spread into baking dish (set icing aside)
4. In a medium bowl, beat eggs
5. Add in cream, cinnamon and vanilla until well blended
6. Pour over roll pieces, sprinkle with pecans and drizzle syrup on top
7. Bake ~ 25 minutes, cool 15 minutes
8. While cooling, remove metal lids of icing containers and microwave 20 seconds then drizzle on top of casserole
9. Sprinkle with powdered sugar
10. Serve with maple syrup

This recipe will be a new tradition at our house…it’s so unhealthy it’s something we can only dare to eat once a year and Christmas seems like the perfect celebration for it!  We didn’t do it with pecans but they’d be delicious and a nice crunch to this recipe.  Just a warning – this is RICH and filling!  Enjoy!