Best Easy French Toast Recipes

EASY FRENCH TOAST CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Grease a 9x12-inch baking dish.
• Stir 1 cup brown sugar and butter together in a saucepan over medium-low heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves into butter, 2 to 4 minutes. Pour into prepared baking dish and spread a 1 1/2- to 2-inch layer of bread pieces over the top.
• Beat milk, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a bowl; pour milk mixture over bread into the baking dish and move bread as necessary to ensure all bread is absorbing liquid. Sprinkle cinnamon over the top. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Remove and discard plastic wrap from baking dish and sprinkle remaining brown sugar over the top of the bread mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until browned and bubbling, about 30 minutes.

EASY OVEN-BAKED FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Adjust oven racks, one on lowest position and the other in the middle position.
• Preheat oven to 425.
• Grease 2 cookie sheets with 2 Tbsp.
• of the above butter.
• Beat eggs, milk, powdered sugar, vanilla and cinnamon.
• Dip bread in the egg mixture and place on cookie sheets.
• Cut remaining butter into pieces and scatter over bread.
• Place on racks, bake for 7 minutes, switch cookie sheets and continue to bake for 8 minutes.
• Sprinkle with a bit of powdered sugar when done.

EASY FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Beat together egg, milk, cinnamon, vanilla and salt.
• Heat a lightly oiled skillet or griddle over medium heat.
• Soak bread slices in egg mixture for 20 second on each side, or until thoroughly coated. Cook bread until both sides are lightly browned and crisp. Serve hot.

EASY BAKED BANANA FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Whisk eggs, milk, brown sugar, butter, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, and ground nutmeg together in a bowl. Stir bread cubes and bananas into egg mixture until coated; pour into prepared baking dish.
• Bake in preheated oven until a knife inserted in center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes.

EASY FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Break eggs into a pie plate and lighty beat.
• Stir in milk, salt, sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla.
• Heat skillet over med/high heat.
• Grease skillet with butter, lightly covering the bottom.
• Place one piece of bread in the egg mixture.
• Quickly flip so that both sides are coated, making sure not to soak up too much.
• Cook in skillet until each side is light to medium brown.
• Repeat steps as you make room in the skillet.
• You may need to grease the skillet again between batches.
• Serve warm with syrup and powdered sugar if desired.

EASY CINNAMON FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Beat eggs with wire whisk until foamy.
• Add milk, cinnamon and vanilla; Beat well.
• Spray large non-stick skillet with cooking spray. Heat over medium heat. You can also use a griddle set at 375.
• Dip bread into batter and cook until golden brown, about 1-2 minutes per side. Whisk the batter before you dip each slice to distribute the cinnamon.
• These can be made low fat by replacing the eggs with 4 whites or 1/2 cup egg substitute and using fat free milk. I usually double the recipe and refrigerate (up to a week) or freeze (2 months) the leftovers.

EASY BLUEBERRIES AND CREAM FRENCH TOAST SANDWICH WITH ORANGE MAPLE SYRUP

Steps:

• Bring the red wine, orange juice, and orange zest to a boil in a small saucepan; reduce heat to medium-low and cook for 5 minutes. Pour in the maple syrup and crushed red pepper flakes. Continue cooking 5 minutes more; reduce heat to warm and keep the syrup hot.
• Meanwhile, spread one side of each slice of bread with the softened cream cheese. Press the blueberries into the cream cheese and sandwich two pieces of bread together with the cream cheese on the inside to form the sandwiches; set aside. Beat the eggs in a mixing bowl; whisk in the milk until smooth.
• Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Dip the sandwiches into the egg mixture allowing the egg to soak into the bread; allow excess egg to drip off. Cook the sandwiches in the hot butter until golden brown on both sides and the bread is no longer soggy, about 5 minutes per side. Serve with the hot orange maple syrup.

EASY VEGAN FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Whisk soy milk, flour, sugar, and cinnamon together in a bowl until well beaten. Pour into a pie pan or other wide, shallow dish.
• Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
• Dip each slice of bread into the soy milk mixture and place into the skillet. Cook until golden brown and crispy on both sides, 5 to 7 minutes.

QUICK AND EASY FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together. Dip bread in mixture and brown on both sides in buttered skillet.

EASY BANANA FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Mash the banana in a shallow bowl with a fork; mix it until most lumps disappear.
• Scramble both eggs into the bowl along with the spices and vanilla extract.
• Preheat a griddle or frying pan.
• Use cooking spray or butter.
• Dip slices of bread in mixture and transfer to pan.
• Cook both sides until done.

QUICK AND EASY FRENCH TOAST FOR TWO

Steps:

• In a large shallow bowl, whisk the egg and milk until slightly frothy.
• Mix in the brown sugar, then follow with the cinnamon and nutmeg.
• Place a piece of bread into the mixture and allow it to soak on each side. While the bread is soaking, heat the oil in a nonstick pan.
• After 30 seconds on each side in the egg mixture, place the bread into the pan and cook evenly on both sides, until golden to dark brown on each side and the egg mixture does not run from the toast when pressed.
• Repeat steps 3-4 for all your slices of bread or until the mixture runs out.
• If desired, serve your French Toast warm and cut into trangles with the maple syrup, powered sugar, and fruit. Enjoy!

EASY BLUEBERRY STUFFED FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• When you cut the crusts off the bread, be sure to save as much of the bread part as possible, and cut off JUST the crust.
• Grease an 8x8-inch glass dish.
• Lay the slices of white bread, with crusts removed on the bottom of the dish.
• Sprinkle bread with blueberries and ensure good coverage.
• Place cream cheese and butter in microwave safe bowl and microwave for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. If you're rather do this with a pan, feel free--remember to stir!
• When the cream cheese goo is hot and well mixed, carefully stir in sugar and almond extract.
• Carefully smear cream cheese over the blueberry mixture.
• Layer the 4 (if your French bread is small, you may have to use more, the point is to have the French Bread cover the dish) French bread slices on top of the cream cheese.
• In a tall glass or jar crack 4 eggs and add the milk and cinnamon.
• Whisk with a fork until well blended.
• Carefully pour egg mixture on the French bread and slightly squish the French bread with a fork to help the absorption.
• Ensure that all the French bread slices are well covered.
• Cover dish with aluminum foil (spray with cooking oil so it doesn't stick).
• Let sit in the fridge overnight, or for at least 3-4 hours.
• When its ready, preheat the oven to 375°F.
• Cook covered for 45 minutes.
• Uncover and cook an additional 15 minutes.
• If you feel that its not cooked well enough, please cook longer--its at your discretion!

EASY OVERNIGHT BLUEBERRY FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Arrange bread slices on a cooling rack and allow to dry at room temperature for 30 to 60 minutes.
• Meanwhile, coat a 3-quart rectangular baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese, maple syrup, and cinnamon with a mixer until smooth. Fold in 2 cups blueberries.
• Arrange 4 slices of bread in prepared dish; spread cream cheese mixture over bread. Top with remaining bread.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together half-and-half, eggs, and vanilla. Pour over bread. Cover and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
• Remove dish from refrigerator. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Bake French toast, covered, for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake 20 minutes more, or until top is golden brown.
• Let stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. If desired, top with additional berries and confectioners' sugar.

EASY AIR FRYER FRENCH TOAST STICKS

Steps:

• Cut each slice of bread into thirds to make sticks. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit the bottom of the air fryer basket.
• Preheat air fryer to 360 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• Stir together eggs, milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl until well combined. Dip each piece of bread into egg mixture, making sure each piece is well submerged. Shake each bread stick to remove excess liquid and place in a single layer in the air fryer basket. Cook in batches, if necessary, to avoid overcrowding the fryer.
• Cook for 5 minutes, turn bread pieces, and cook for an additional 5 minutes.

EASY ORANGE FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Combine juice, peel, eggs, cinnamon and vanilla.
• Beat well.
• Melt butter in 13x9 baking pan.
• Dip the bread on both sides; place in pan.
• Bake at 450* for 6 minutes, turn and bake another 6 minutes.

EASY PINA COLADA FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Whisk together the eggs, milk, and pina colada mix in a bowl. Heat a skillet over medium heat; melt butter in the skillet until the foam disappears. Soak the bread slices in the egg mixture, turning the slices over a couple of times.
• Gently lay the soaked bread slices into the hot skillet 2 at a time and pan-fry until the french toast is golden brown, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer cooked french toast slices to a warmed platter while you finish cooking. Top each 2-slice serving with several slices of banana to serve.

EASY MORNING FRENCH TOAST BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• Slice the challah bread very thickly.
• Let dry out for 2 hours.
• Mix eggs, cream, oj and zest very well.
• dip both sides of slice of bread in egg mix- get them very wet.
• layer the bread in pan slightly overlapping.
• pour the rest of the egg mixture over the bread.
• cover with foil - let sit at least 1 hour - can sit overnight.
• Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour - depending on how crispy you want the top.
• For the sauce.
• in sauce pan melt butter add syrup cook until it reaches a low simmer - pour over the french toast.

GRANDMA'S EASY FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together.
• Heat skillet, butter it.
• Quickly coat bread with mixture and place on skillet.
• Cook until lightly brown on each side.
• Serve with maple syrup and butter!
• Enjoy!

EASY FRENCH TOAST CASSEROLE (MAKE AHEAD)

Steps:

• The night before: Grease a 9x13 baking dish. Break up half the bread by tearing or cutting into 1 inch or so cubes.
• Scatter cubed cream cheese over the top.
• Top with the remaining bread, also broken or cut into cubes.
• Sprinkle with the cinnamon and the sugar.
• Pour maple syrup over the top (the real stuff always tastes better!).
• Pour the beaten eggs over the top next.
• Cover with foil and place in the fridge overnight.
• The next day: Preheat oven to 350°F
• Bake uncovered 45-60 minutes, depending on your oven and how mushy you like your french toast.
• Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

EASY LOW FAT FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• In bowl beat egg whites until fluffy.
• Add splash of orange juice and mix.
• Add nutmeg and cinnamon.
• Soak bread slices in mixture.
• Cook in skillet on medium heat until browned.
• Top with sprinkle of brown sugar and syrup.