Non-Soggy Quick and Easy French Toast Recipe

A non-soggy quick and easy French toast recipe is achieved with patience! You may ask, how do you make a non-soggy French toast recipe? I can provide that information for you! Making a crispy French toast can be achieved if you allow your griddle to reach temperature slowly and not by rushing the process!

Here are a few suggestions and ingredients to make the classic French toast recipe below.

Shallow bowl	Turning only once	Ghee & fresh butter
Hot cast iron griddle-heated slowly	Room temperature ingredients	Hand beater or hand whisk
Warm syrup or honey	Heated plates	Patience

 Types of Bread for French Toast

Almost any type of bread can be used to make French toast. Refrain from straight out of the oven-fresh bread. The staler the bread is, the better. Here are some of my favorite types of bread to make this classic French toast recipe.

• Yesterdays or the day before homemade cinnamon bread
• Texas Toast store-bought bread is also a champion
• Thin bread is not best since the bread will become soggier than thicker bread
• Sourdough is an added twang to the French toast
• Brioche
• Challah

How Thick to Slice Bread for French Toast?

The best width I found for hand-cutting bread is around a ½ to ¾ of an inch up to one inch. But this does not have to be an exact measurement. If you have a bread slicer, then I would suggest using 2 slots as one cut.

A razor-sharp serrated or an electric knife will most positively give the best cut. A slice that is semi-thin to medium thick is most desirable for a non-soggy French toast.

French Toast Recipe Video Tutorial

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How to Dry out Bread for French Toast

If using bread bought from a store that is pre-sliced, it’s most practical to let the bread sit out over-night in an oven, bread box, or even a toaster oven. You would want something without heat, light, and won’t let the bugs land on the bread.

If using homemade bread for this French toast recipe, it will become stale faster on its own for lack of preservatives. The bread will dry out most likely within a day, so is not required to let it sit out overnight. Day-old bread or even longer is best for a crispy French toast.

In a hurry or forgot to take out the bread to dry out to further dry to be used in a French Toast Recipe? Put the bread on a wire rack in a 250-degree oven for 5-10 minutes on each side. Let cool and proceed to make this French toast recipe. Do not “toast” the bread or it will not soak up the batter.

French Toast Recipe for Two

We are empty-nesters and cooking breakfast for two is not always easy. When making this recipe for two, just reduce the milk and only use one egg. Adjust the extracts and spices to your taste, we love the extra and we don’t decrease the extracts or spices.

However we love to make our own Homemade Vanilla Extracts that we find very easy and think you should try too!

Or better yet, make a large batch and freeze or refrigerate the rest for later and even enjoy it as a snack! We love crispy French toast sticks. Reheating the sticks in an air-fryer is great too! Read more below!

Print French Toast Recipe

Ingredients for Cinnamon French Toast

• Stale Bread
• 1 Cup Milk (buttermilk, whole milk, heavy cream, half and half or other milk)
• 1-2 TBSP. Ghee
• Room temperature eggs (1-2)
• 1-3 TBSP. Homemade butter
• 1 Tsp. Vanilla extract
• 1 Tsp. Cinnamon
• 1/2 Tsp. Cinnamon extract (optional)
• 1/4 Tsp. Nutmeg
• 1/4 Cup 10X powder (optional)
• The best maple syrup

Directions to Make French Toast Batter

• Cut the bread into medium to semi-thin slices if a bread loaf is being used
• Grate the nutmeg
• 1-2 room-temperature eggs or 1 duck egg
• (Optional) Half buttermilk
• Add raw milk
• Extracts-vanilla and cinnamon
• High-grade cinnamon (Saigon)
• Whip or beat very well until all the ingredients are frothy

Don’t throw those eggshells away. I have a full blog post on the Many Ways to Recycle Eggshells.

Cooking Crispy French Toast on a Griddle

1. Make sure the griddle is very hot by way of a slow heat
2. Add Ghee to the griddle-smooth out to all the sides
3. Quickly dip each slice of bread in the French toast batter
4. Adjust the heat down-you don’t want to burn the bread
5. Cook one side until lightly crispy and golden
6. Flip only once
7. Cook the other side until lightly crispy and golden in color
8. Remove from the griddle
9. Dust the tops of the French toast with 10x sugar
10. Add a side of butter, maple syrup, molasses, to warmed little bowls
11. Let extras air-dry before wrapping in wax paper to reheat later

Crispy French Toast Sticks for a Snack!

If you want to use any remaining bread to make plenty of French toast for later, simply use the original recipe with 2 eggs and a little extra milk and spices to taste.

French toast is not just for breakfast. The leftover French toast can be made into French toast sticks and heated in the air-fryer and even served as a snack any time of the day.

Sprinkle the sticks with 10x sugar and dip in warmed bowls of melted butter and hot syrup. Even try adding homemade jams and jellies on the sticks instead of syrup. I like to make and heat my jam to make it more liquidy, this makes it easier to dip each French toast stick. If you want to learn how to make your own jam, check out Homemade Jams with and without Pectin!

In Conclusion

This Non soggy French toast recipe is a game changer if you have the best ingredients and you’re patient enough to let the griddle heat to the right temperature for that classic golden perfection we call non soggy French toast.

As I mentioned above, sourdough can be an alternative for your bread and we just so happen to have another PERFECT breakfast and daytime snack including how to make your very own sourdough in our Most Delicious and Fluffiest Sourdough Waffles blog!

If you’re also interested in making your own ingredients to use in or go with this French toast recipe, check out my Homemade Raw Milk Butter and my DIY Buttermilk recipes so you can have the healthiest and most delicious French toast possible!

I’m also going to let you in on a little secret as well where I get all things cast iron! All the amazing cookware that I absolutely love comes from Lodge Cast Iron Foundry. I love visiting there and finding more cast iron for new ideas!