Easy Recipe For French Toast

There’s nothing quite like a weekend morning breakfast of fluffy French Toast smothered in real maple syrup! Serve with strawberries, blueberries, honey butter,  or a side of oven-cooked bacon and be the hit of the day!

It is claimed that French Toast was originally a Roman recipe of bread that was soaked in milk and then fried. (In France it’s actually called “pain perdu” (lost bread) and made with stale bread). Regardless, we’re thankful to whoever invented this goodness.

Besides being delicious, any good French Toast recipe is going to have milk, eggs and some warm spices like cinnamon or even nutmeg. The best recipes are made with good bread, a thick mixture of eggs, milk or cream and spices. The pieces are dipped in the egg mixture and then either fried or baked to fluffy perfection.

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A good French Toast recipe always starts with good quality bread. While I prefer thicker denser bread slices, thinner slices like sandwich bread will work in a pinch too.

You guys, this is so crazy easy. Once you learn how to make French Toast, this staple will become a breakfast/lunch/dinner go-to when you’re in a rush! It’s great with fried eggs too!

Get creative and change it up to match the season, the occasion, or even your mood! Prefer a Savory Breakfast? Top it with a fried egg and serve with some bacon or ham.

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Make-Ahead French Toast: To Make French toast an easy breakfast option, make a big batch on the weekend and they can be either heated in the microwave or popped into the toaster on busy weekday mornings.

Make this fluffy french toast recipe and be the talk of your next brunch! Try as a casserole or even a stuffed casserole. Yum!

Cook time can vary based on thickness and density of bread as well as the amount of egg soaked into the bread.

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Calories: 236 | Carbohydrates: 39 g | Protein: 11 g | Fat: 3 g | Saturated Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 83 mg | Sodium: 372 mg | Potassium: 156 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 4 g | Vitamin A: 175 IU | Vitamin C: 0.2 mg | Calcium: 77 mg | Iron: 2.7 mg

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Holly is a wine and cheese lover, recipe creator, shopping enthusiast and self appointed foodie. Her greatest passion is creating in the kitchen and making deliciously comforting recipes for the everyday home cook!Have I ever told you about my bright purple front door? When we moved into our new house, the door was a faded red color and seeing as it fit so perfectly with the look of the house, I naturally needed to change it.

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First I tried a light turquoise-y color that looks like it belongs on the front of a beach house. I think that would have worked okay with the house BUT it totally clashed with the trim and I wasn’t about to repaint ALL the trim. Then I decided on a darker blue color that’s somewhere between baby blue and royal blue. I looked online at paint colors, picked one out and then bought it at the store.

As we were painting the first coat, Stephen and I both noticed that the color had a strong purple tone to it. I thought that maybe once it dried it would be the right color.I was very wrong. Long story short: never look at paint colors online and then just go buy it sight unseen. You’ll end up with a purple frontdoor. That very same weekend, I went and bought a NEW new color (that I

Is the right color) and it’s been sitting in a spare room for months. I’m sure we’ll get around to painting it eventually.

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That has nothing to do with this Yummy & Easy French Toast Recipes with the exception that the new gallon of paint lives in the room that I most commonly set up for my food photography. It stares at me while I take photos, reminding me that my front door is still a funky shade of purple. I digress.

Let’s talk French Toast bread. I grew up eating French toast made with store bought white or wheat bread. I think that my mom would often buy “Texas toast” type bread to make French toast with. In my adult years of making French toast, I’ve experimented with quite a few different kinds of bread. My favorites include French bread, Italian bread, and challah. These are all best at around the3-4 day old mark.

For today’s French toast, we’re using challah. I don’t have a lot of bread options in the stores around my house BUT there are a lot of great stores in the Nashville area and I happened to drive past one of them on Saturday morning and ran in just to see if they had this bread.

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French toast puts on a pretty good front; it thinks it’s fancy but we know better. It’s easier than pretty much anything that you could make at breakfast besides a bowl of cereal.

All we do is whisk together some milk and eggs and then throw in a bit of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, and a pinch of salt. I actually never measure these things out when I make it but I HAVE been measuring it lately just so that I would have a coherent recipe to share with you.

Sometimes I sprinkle a little extra cinnamon across the slices of bread because I’m a bit obsessed and is there such thing as too much cinnamon?

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Then we just throw the bread in a skillet over medium heat for a few minutes on each side. And that’s it.

The fruit, while yummy, is totally optional. Syrup is a must. I’m a big fan of simple, classic maple syrup. Stephen often opts for a blueberry syrup.

If you don’t make French Toast on the regular, I highly suggest that you add it to your arsenal of go to weekend breakfasts.

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Pro-tip:this is a super easy recipe to adapt. You could substitute the vanilla extract for almond or peppermint. You could add in a tablespoon of pumpkin puree or switch out the milk for a non-dairy milk. Have fun with it!Daniel joined the Serious Eats culinary team in 2014 and writes recipes, equipment reviews, articles on cooking techniques. Prior to that he was a food editor at Food & Wine magazine, and the staff writer for Time Out New York's restaurant and bars section.

My sister and five-year-old nephew have been staying with me this week, so, trying to be a good uncle, I asked beforehand what his favorite foods were. On the list, among Cheerios and chicken feet (yeah, he's a pretty awesome five-year-old), was French toast. It was a nice little bit of kismet: Kenji and I had just been talking about how Serious Eats needed a tried-and-true basic French toast recipe, which meant that I could be the awesome uncle who makes French toast every day while getting work done 

When I told my sister the plan, and explained how I would make multiple batches of French toast each day to zero in on an ideal basic recipe, she didn't quite get it. What's there to it? she asked. I just eyeball it when I make it at home. She isn't wrong. On one level, French toast is simple enough that you can just toss together some eggs, milk, bread, and whatever else, and probably not go too horribly wrong. And yet, if you look at recipes, there isn't a ton of consistency. Some call for more eggs, some call for fewer; some call for sugar in the batter, some don't; some call for milk, others cream. All these versions yield different results, and I wanted to figure out where the sweet spot was.

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Before proceeding to the specifics, just a word on the scope of this: the goal here is to determine the best way to make basic French toast, the kind you'd throw together using only ingredients that most have on-hand at all times. This isn't a tricked-out, no-holds-barred version that would require a special shopping trip just to make—we'll tackle the ultimate French toast in a future article.

 I took a quick look at various recipes and found the typical range to be anywhere from two to four eggs per cup of milk. If I were to tell a fairy-tale version of this test to my nephew, it would go something like this:

Goldilocks, having taken her nap in the comfiest of the three beds, approached the breakfast table. There, she found three plates of freshly-cooked French toast. Taking a bite from baby bear's plate, which was made with two eggs per cup of milk, she declared, This French toast is too mushy and wet.

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Next, she tasted Papa Bear's toast, made with four eggs per cup of milk. This French toast is too eggy and dense, she remarked with