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Easy French Toast Recipe
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Jun 11, 2025
Start your morning with this Easy French Toast Recipe — a quick and delicious breakfast you can make in minutes! Just whisk together eggs, milk, cinnamon, and vanilla, dip your favorite bread, and cook to golden perfection. Perfectly crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, this classic dish is great for any day of the week. Serve with syrup, powdered sugar, or fresh fruit for a simple yet satisfying start to your day!
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hey I'm John Canel and today on Preppy
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Kitchen we're making some easy delicious
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French toast so let's get started first
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off in a large bowl we're going to crack
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four room temperature eggs they can
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actually be cold it's okay
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and next to me you see two different
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options i just wanted to show you like
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today I'm going to use bio because it's
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like the perfect bread for French toast
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really rich and soft you get like a nice
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thick cut one and it's good you could
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also use hala it's very similar to bioge
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it's a really rich bread and just give
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it a nice thick slice and it'll be
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beautiful milk bread potato bread the
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nice thing is you can use any bread you
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want and enjoy this might be weird but
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like when I was little and I would have
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French toast I often liked sourdough
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French toast because it had a little bit
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of a tang and kind of contrasted with
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the maple syrup but you do you to my
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four eggs I'm going to add 3/4 of a cup
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of whole milk 2 tbsp of sugar and as you
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can see we're basically making a custard
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to soak our bread in half a teaspoon of
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cinnamon
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and a tablespoon of vanilla
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m and for contrast a pinch of salt our
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scale is done i never needed it in the
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first place
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just out of habit all right now we're
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going to give this a really good mix to
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break the eggs up so it's a beautiful
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silky custard
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there's two new recipes every single
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week
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and if you're like me and you're just
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not your best in the morning but you
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want to do something like make French
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toast have your bread ready easy mix
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this up the night before and just cover
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it and put it in the fridge then you can
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dip and cook your French toast in the
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morning and it's half the work
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if you want to have an extra indulgent
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French toast you could sub the milk out
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for cream or half and half and feel free
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to add flavors you like i might do a
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tablespoon of orange zest in here you
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could add brandy you could like make
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this your own like there's so many
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different ways you can go it's a custard
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and it accepts flavors really well the
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only downside to French toast is that by
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the time you're done making all of it
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the first batch is probably cold to
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solve this problem just have your oven
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at the ready set your oven to 200° pop
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your French toast onto a baking sheet as
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you cook it and then by the time it's
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all done everything will be nice and
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warm don't leave your French toast in
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the oven for more than 30 minutes it'll
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dry out and overbake
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okay that's mixed up now we're going to
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place our pan over medium heat you could
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have started heating your pan at the
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beginning of this but this stove is so
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powerful it would be screaming hot if I
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did that the secret to delicious golden
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French toast is butter it is a French
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French titled recipe at least so 1 to 2
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tablespoons of butter per batch of
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French toast into your hot pan get it
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nice and melty that pan got very hot so
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your bread needs to soak in the mixture
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just for a few seconds you could use
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stale bread or you could use fresh bread
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it's a great way to use up a stale loaf
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but you could definitely use fresh bread
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for this they're both going to work well
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the stale might just absorb a little bit
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more of the custard
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just a few seconds for each side and
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you're going to pop that into your pan
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okay first one in and just keep dipping
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you have another choice with the dipping
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if you do a quick dip your toast will
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not be fully saturated if you want to
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have a like a more luscious or custardy
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French toast in the middle just dip for
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longer about 5 seconds per side
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so as I mentioned my stove runs really
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hot so if that's happening to you you
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can use a mixture of vegetable oil and
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butter and it won't burn as quickly your
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toast will cook for about 2 minutes per
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side so give it a check flip it over my
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first one is going to be the darkest
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batch and then they'll be perfect don't
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worry if your French toast looks a
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little bit less than perfect that's okay
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once your toast is golden on the other
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side we're going to transfer this to our
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baking sheet with a wire rack over it
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and that can live in the oven while we
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make the rest of the French toast so
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it's all nice and hot and nobody gets a
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cold batch so as you're cooking just add
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more butter as needed before you know it
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your French toast will all be done this
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makes a good number of pieces so you
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could serve what you'd like and freeze
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the rest for later french toast freezes
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really easily i would just pop it
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between layers of parchment and put that
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into a sealable bag when you're ready to
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use your frozen pieces thaw them and
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then you can air fry them or bake them
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for a few minutes and they'll be
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delicious and crisp so this is a recipe
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like German chocolate cake which is not
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a German recipe it's named after a guy
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named Samuel German french toast gets
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its name from Joseph French it's
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actually an ancient Roman recipe that's
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been around for thousands of years it is
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not a French recipe and the French call
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this Roman bread or at least they used
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to i think now everyone calls it French
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toast the only thing you have to worry
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about here is timing your dipping so
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it's ready to go
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other than that the recipe is basically
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foolproof although maybe we'll show you
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some behind the scenes this pan got so
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screaming hot i had to dip it in water
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just to cool it down and start over
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again it was just way too hot and would
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not cool down it's wild garnish with
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maple syrup fresh berries whipped cream
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and just like that it's ready to enjoy
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it's the perfect texture you can taste
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that delicious custard and it is
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appropriately sweet and perfect for the
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morning i hope you get a chance to make
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