The Best Recipe for French Toast - Cooking With Karli (2024)

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Why does anyone eat anything other than this French Toast recipe?! It is seriously the BEST breakfast food you’ll find anywhere.

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What makes this the Best French Toast Recipe

Perfectly golden and sweetened to perfection, you are bound to LOVE this french toast recipe. With a few simple tweaks, you can change your french toast from ‘fine’ to absolutely scrumptious!

Guys, there are only a few differences in how I make french toast, but they’re the real deal. Adding vanilla to the egg mixture is the easiest way to absolutely elevate this homestyle, breakfast comfort food. And making it with sourdough bread is just another way to enhance your flavor and make it feel like you’re buying your breakfast from one of those fancy brunch places. I really cannot rave about this easy french toast recipe enough!

When trying to decide how much french toast you’ll need, remember 2 things:

Make more than you think you’ll need because this is going to go quickly.
For every egg you use, you should be able to make about 4 pieces of french toast. So you can do some simple math to figure out how many pieces you want and be able to adjust this recipe accordingly.

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Simple French Toast Recipe Ingredients

Eggs
Milk
Sugar – The sugar is just enough to sweeten the egg mixture ever so slightly.
Vanilla – The vanilla is what really brings this recipe home and what makes it different from other recipes.
Bread– My favorite is sourdough but any kind of bread works well!

Easy French Toast Recipe variations

One of my favorite ways to adjust the flavor of french toast is to switch up my bread! I love to use sourdough, but a texas toast or cinnamon bread also really shines in this recipe!

If you’re a fan of cinnamon, you can toss some into the egg mixture as well! I typically don’t because we aren’t the biggest cinnamon fans in our house.

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How to Make the Best French Toast Ever

Preheat your electric griddle to 325°F.
In a shallow bowl or pie plate, add the eggs, milk, sugar and vanilla. Whisk until thoroughly combined.
Spray the griddle with nonstick spray.
Quickly dip one side of a slice of bread into the egg mixture and then flip over, dipping the other side of the bread before placing on the hot griddle.
Repeat this step until the griddle is full of French toast.
Cook until golden brown. Flip the French toast and then cook again until golden brown.
Repeat steps 3-7 until all of the egg mixture has been used up.
Serve with syrup, powdered sugar, or whipped cream and fresh fruit. Enjoy!

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What do you serve with this recipe for French Toast?

We love to serve french toast with:

bananas
strawberries
whipped cream
nutella
homemade cookie butter
peanut butter
syrup

And if it’s a birthday, sometimes we even serve it with ice cream and sprinkles.

Best French Toast Recipe FAQs

What’s the Best French Toast Egg to Milk Ratio?

Surprisingly, it’s 1:1! Eggs are approx 1/4 of a cup so for every egg just add 1/4 cup of milk.

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The Best French Toast Recipe

By: Karli Bitner

Why does anyone eat anything other than this French Toast recipe?! It is seriously the BEST breakfast food you’ll find anywhere.

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Servings: 12 french toasts

Ingredients

▢ 3 eggs
▢ 3/4 cup milk
▢ 3 tbsp sugar
▢ 3 tsp vanilla
▢ 12 slices bread , *I like to use sourdough

Instructions

Preheat your electric griddle to 325°F.
In a shallow bowl or pie plate, add the eggs, milk, sugar and vanilla. Whisk until thoroughly combined.
Spray the griddle with nonstick spray.
Quickly dip one side of a slice of bread into the egg mixture and then flip over, dipping the other side of the bread before placing on the hot griddle.
Repeat this step until the griddle is full of French toast.
Cook until golden brown. Flip the French toast and then cook again until golden brown.
Repeat steps 3-7 until all of the egg mixture has been used up.
Serve with syrup, powdered sugar, or whipped cream and fresh fruit.

Notes

For every egg you use, you should be able to make about 4 pieces of french toast. So you can do some simple math to figure out how many pieces you want and be able to adjust this recipe accordingly.

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