Thick and Rich Best Ever French Toast is bread dipped in a cream, eggs & spice batter made thick with a special technique, then cooked to perfection. Easy fast recipe for amazing French Toast, ideal for breakfast in bed!
Best French Toast Recipe
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This recipe was originally post in December 2016 but has been reposted for easy finding.
Hey you! If you are looking for how to make the best French toast and don’t want to read all my blah blah blah (but hilarious) commentary about making batter, or the best bread to use, I totally understand! Just skip to the bottom of the page and you will find the recipe outlined in pink.
French Toast Batter
When it comes to make the best French toast recipe, the batter recipe is key! You can’t get the world’s best French toast if you are using a boring batter recipe. Using the same French technique that we use when making a blender Hollandaise (such as the delicious one in this Eggs Benedict recipe), we create a thick batter of cream, eggs, and spices.
Best Bread for French Toast
After making an amazing batter, we dip thick slices of Brioche or Challah Bread, or even French Bread (although that might make this a French French Toast, which seems a bit redundant), into our amazing batter. After which the battered bread is placed on a skillet griddle and then cooked to perfection!
These are the best breads for the job because:
- Brioche and Challah and French bread are all thicker, and denser breads that will hold up when dipped in our amazing batter recipe.
- These breads have a rich, often buttery flavor, that is amplified with our creamy, spiced, batter.
Y’all this recipe is the bomb! If you’ve got a special day coming up, such as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, a Birthday, or a Wednesday; I highly suggest surprising your loved one with some pretty flowers and a delicious breakfast in bed.
Food in France
Dear Reader,
Now I am really going to blab for a minute. This is solely because if I want you to find my recipe in your google searches, I need to make sure I have an 500 word count or higher.
Again, you might miss something funny, but you’re totally welcome to jump straight to the bottom of the page for the actual recipe!
In my Ragu Bolognese recipe I taught you how to speak Italian. Today I will be teaching you French. You’re Welcome, or shall I say ““Je t’en prie!”
Reader, in case you are getting overly excited about your new gift of tongues, you should be aware that I learned to speak French from a couple of google searches and awesome movies such as”Beauty and the Beast” and the old classic “Gigi“.
So definitely take that into account before booking a flight to France to go try out your newfound amazing abilities.
Also, if you trust me and my language skills enough to be booking a flight to France based off of my knowledge, then I believe we are bosom buddies; Two of a kind; Intended to be lifelong friends… Therefore, you should probably book a flight for me as well! We are going to have a lovely time in France together. We should eat Toast while in France; French Toast!
With Love, Juli XOXOX (and those “X”s are totally on each cheek, because that’s they way they do it in France. You don’t believe me? Ask the dishes.)
Enough talk, let’s eat!
Recipe for the Best French Toast Ever:
Juli
Yields 4
Serves 4
If you want the best ever French toast that is rich, thick, and has an amazing French toast batter, this is the best way to make it. This recipe is easy and make amazing French toast that you will want for every holiday, special occasion, or just when you want the perfect breakfast in bed.
10 minPrep Time
10 minCook Time
20 minTotal Time
Save RecipeIngredients
- 6-10 slices of thick cut Bread (I suggest Brioche, Challah or French Bread)
- Butter fot the pan if you are not using a non-stick griddle
- 3 Eggs
- 3 Egg Yolk (So yes, a total of 6 eggs)
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 3 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
- Dash of Nutmeg
- Dash of Cinnamon
- Dash of Salt
- 1/2 cup Cream
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
Instructions
- In a wide container or a pie dish, combine the eggs, vanilla, spices, sugar and salt. Mix well.
- In a separate (microwave proof container), place your cream and butter.
- Heat the Cream and Butter for 45 seconds-1 minute until it is Hot and barely simmering.
- *note that you can also do that step in a small saucepan wiped down with butter, on the stove-top!
- Then slowly add the Cream-Butter mixture to the egg mixture, while whisking briskly the entire time. The heat from the Cream will slightly cook the eggs and thicken the whole of it.
- Preheat your oven to 200 F degrees.
- Dip each piece of Bread in the Batter and let it really coat it, flipping to get each side.
- On your electric griddle at a medium heat (about 275 F degrees), place the battered bread.
- *You can also cook it stove top in a pan that has a little bit of butter added and melted on the bottom to keep the French Toast from sticking.
- Let it cook until golden and then flip and let the opposite side cook as well.
- When both sides have been browned, transfer your French Toast to the oven, until all of the pieces have been cooked.
- Serve with Butter, whipped Cream, Jam, Strawberries, or Syrup.
- Enjoy!
Notes
For this Best Ever French Toast you can use brioche, challah, or French bread, whichever bread you wish.
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