This French toast recipe is a classic recipe that is easy to make with a cinnamon infused milk mixture. Top it off with powdered sugar, fresh berries and syrup for the ultimate breakfast.
Our family loves breakfast recipes! Other French toast favorites include brioche bread French toast, French bread French toast and French toast sticks.
This easy French toast is one of my family’s favorites. Sometimes we will make a complete breakfast spread with bacon, hash browns and scrambled eggs and other times it’s best with just a drizzle of maple syrup, strawberries and whipped cream!
French Toast Recipe Ingredients
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- Best bread for French toast: Thick slices of bread are best, like this brioche bread recipe, day old French bread, challah, sourdough and Texas toast. If using thinner sandwich bread do not over soak it in the custard egg mixture.
- Eggs and milk: Both are necessary to give the custard its smooth and creamy texture plus eggs give French toast it’s golden brown exterior.
- Flour: Just a little bit to help bind everything together.
- Brown sugar: I love to use light brown sugar to add just a little bit of sweetness.
- Vanilla extract and cinnamon: Both are added for flavor and a classic French toast recipe with cinnamon is the best. During the fall, I love to use pumpkin pie spice.
How to Make French Toast
It’s as easy as following 1, 2, 3 steps to make a hearty and delightful breakfast.
- Blend the custard. Blend the milk, flour, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt until smooth. Transfer to a shallow bowl.
- Dip. Dip a slice of bread into the custard and flip to evenly coat.
- Cook. Preheat a griddle to 350°F or a skillet over medium heat. Grease with butter the place dipped bread on the griddle and cook until lightly golden brown.
- Serve immediately. This recipe tastes best served hot off the griddle so that it keeps it crispy texture.
Tips and Variations
- Other milk: Replace 1/2 the milk with heavy cream or use oat milk, almond milk or any other dairy free milk.
- Make-ahead: Use a day old thick bread. Place bread pieces in dish, pour egg mixture over top then cover and store in refrigerator. Cook the next day. My overnight French toast casserole is also a great option.
- Peach: Top with my baked peaches with cinnamon sugar for a seasonal French toast treat.
- Cinnamon apple: Replace cinnamon with apple pie spice and top with my favorite apple filling from my apple crepes.
- Gingerbread: Make eggnog French toast with warm spices and eggnog.
- Feed a crowd. For the holidays, I love to make this French toast casserole recipe instead.
Storing Leftover French Toast
Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to 5 days. You can also freeze slices up to three months. Reheat from frozen in the oven, microwave or toaster.
More breakfast recipes that we love include biscuits and gravy, eggs benedict and Belgian waffles.
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French Toast Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk , or half-and-half
- 3 Tablespooms all-purpose flour
- 4 large eggs
- 3 Tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 Tablespoon butter , for greasing the griddle
- 12 slices thick bread , I prefer brioche
Optional Toppings: Berries, Fresh fruit, Powdered sugar, Nutella, Whipped cream, Jam, Syrup
Instructions
- In the base of a blender, place the milk, flour, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt. Pulse until smooth. Alternatively place in a bowl and whisk until smooth. Transfer to a shallow bowl.
- Preheat a griddle to 350°F or a skillet over medium-high heat. Grease with butter. Dip the bread into the egg mixture and flip to evenly coat. Place the bread on the griddle and cook 2 minutes per side, or until lightly golden brown. Whisk the egg mixture to keep combined, as needed.
- Serve immediately and top with your favorite toppings.
Notes
- Bread. Mix it up with banana bread, homemade French bread, or even pumpkin bread.
- Spice. Try it with pumpkin pie spice, cardamom, nutmeg, cloves, or whatever else you might like.
- Cream. For a richer base use half-and-half or heavy cream.
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Recipe FAQs
Since there are so few ingredients, it is important to use the best of everything. The bread is the star so you want to be sure to use one that will hold together and it is still really tasty.
Use really good vanilla extract, good butter for greasing the griddle, and good maple syrup (or whatever else you are topping it with).
There are a few things to avoid to make the best recipe. Be sure to blend your custard thoroughly. This is why I prefer the blender. Use the right bread and be sure to let the bread absorb the custard, but not too much or it will fall apart. Grease the griddle and make sure it isn’t too hot.
This tastes delicious no matter how you dress it up! Try cinnamon pancake syrup or buttermilk syrup, strawberry sauce or strawberry jam, powdered sugar with blueberry sauce, decadent caramel sauce, cinnamon sugar, caramelized bananas and chopped nut or cinnamon butter.
If you’re making breakfast for a crowd and have to make multiple batches, try keeping it warm in the oven. Simply place the cooked toast on a baking sheet and place in the oven at 175°F until serving. It keeps the bread warm and crispy, without drying it out.
Categorized as: American, Breakfast, Kid-Friendly, Make Ahead, Nut-Free, Stovetop, Sweet Breakfast, Vegetarian
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
Delicious! Not one of those commentators who says a recipe is delicious and then “only changed/put in something else” . Made this just as is
I’m so happy you enjoyed the French toast Maura!
When my boys were little, I would make French toast and always make extra. I freeze 2 in small freezer bags, and put them in a large freezer bag so they could grab them during the week before school. They only had to put them in the toaster to heat! They loved it!