If you’ve got an egg and some hefty bread, you can whip up a quick, delicious breakfast in your toaster oven with a minimum of fuss and mess. This Baked French Toast recipe is perfect for your toaster oven, producing four slices of crispy, not soggy, French toast in about 15 minutes.
This technique can also be used in your regular oven when you need to feed an army. But I find it perfect for feeding just Dwaine and I on one of these cold Colorado mornings.
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There are three simple steps involved – whipping up a custard from eggs and milk, soaking the bread, then baking/broiling the bread to a crispy finish. I recently had 7 children and 10 adults at the house for our annual Easter Egg Hunt, and was able to rotate through an entire loaf of bread while I showered and shaved!
Use the Best Bread
The recipe calls for “Quality Sandwich Bread.” In my experience, using a really cheap bread will be a problem. The cheapest breads are just too light and airy to make it through the soaking process. The surface immediately begins to dissolve as soon as it touches the milk/egg mixture. I recommend something a bit heftier – like a Texas Toast, 100% whole wheat or wheat/nut – to hold up to this. My Honey Whole Wheat Bread would be perfect!
Make Cleanup Easier
The original recipe also had you soak the break in the baking pan just before putting the whole thing in the toaster oven. The problem there is that if the bread doesn’t soak up every morsel of custard, it will toast into the corners of your pan, making cleanup a super-chore. I recommend soaking in a separate dish, then flipping the toast into a pan lined with a silicone-baking mat (see recommendations below). Giving the baking pan a hefty coating of non-stick spray isn’t a bad idea, either.
Regular pan-fried French toast can be soggy. The edges might get crisp, but the middle can be a bit damp and eggy. This recipe produces a uniformly crisp toast, slightly sweet with a hint of cinnamon. You can eat it on-the-go, just as it is – or sit down with some butter and syrup while enjoying a hot cup of coffee. I know you’ll enjoy it!
Baked French Toast
Ingredients
- 1 lg Egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 tsp Brown Sugar packed
- 1/4 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- Dash of Salt
- 1 tbsp Butter melted
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 4 slices Quality Sandwich Bread Or Texas toast
Instructions
- Heat your toaster oven to 425F. Prep a toaster-oven sized baking sheet with cooking spray and a sheet of parchment paper – or better yet, a Sil-pat or other silicone baking sheet.
- Whisk together egg, vanilla, sugar, cinnamon and salt until the sugar is dissolved. Continuing the whisking, slowly add the melted butter, then the milk.
- Pour this mixture into a shallow dish, then lay out 4 bread slices. Once you’ve laid them out, flip them to coat the other side. You can let them sit for a minute to mop up all the custard.
- Transfer the soaked slices to your baking sheet and bake at 425 for about 10 minutes. Switch the oven to Broil and broil the top until the slices are golden brown – about 5 minutes more. You may need to rotate your pan.
- Remove from the oven and flip each slice. Serve with fruit, syrup, confectioner’s sugar, or just grab-and-go.
Notes
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Maybe you’ve tried a variation you’d like to share. Drop a note and let me know and I’ll add it to my post.
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That looks delicious! I wonder what it’d be like if you threw some Nutella on there? 😋
No need to wonder! Nutella makes everything better! Haha.
Wow! This looks so yummy that I want to bite my mobile right now just to have a taste of it😜. I really do love making awesome looking recipes from very little resources, I feel that makes one a better and creative cook than most others with plenty ingredients. I really have learned a new recipe here and I have almost all the ingredients needed for this at home currently. I should really give it a try and I would be willing to share with you my experience. Thanks for the post
That’s the nice thing about it – you almost certainly have everything you need to make it. And it’s worth it when you’re done!
Oh my golly gosh! My mouth is watering! I absolutely love French toast, but have always had trouble with the soggy centre when I cook it. I am so excited tomorrow to go and buy some good quality bread and eggs to try your recipe out and eat with some bacon and maple syrup.. yummo! Thanks heaps!
You are most welcome, and enjoy.
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My favorite? It’s hard, but I think the Old Fashioned Coconut Cake, just because people beg me to make it all the time. 🙂