Cinnamon Batter-Dipped French Toast

How Do You Make French Toast?

French Toast is easy to make! Once you know how to make French toast, you can practically do it with one (sleepy eye) closed. Eggs, Bisquick, milk, cinnamon and vanilla are beaten together. You can use a fork or a whisk to break up the eggs quickly. Bread slices are dipped into the batter and fried on a pancake griddle or skillet until it’s golden brown on both sides. Follow the actual recipe for all the specifics on how to make this best French toast recipe. 

You can sprinkle it with powdered sugar by placing a tablespoon or so into a small fine wire-mesh strainer and tapping the handle of the strainer over the French toast, for a nice, even sprinkling of sweetness. Serve it with a pat of butter, if you like, and your favorite pancake syrup.
 

What Are the Flavorful French Toast Ingredients?

Our easy French toast recipe is loaded with flavor with just a few ingredients. The secret to our recipe is a batter that coats the bread, rather than the typical thin egg mixture that mostly soaks into the bread, as in a classic French toast recipe. The batter is made with a big hit of cinnamon spice paired with vanilla, for the most indulgent but simple French toast recipe around. Bisquick mix is the star of the batter, which is the perfect choice, as it’s been making amazing pancakes and waffles for over 50 years! When the bread is coated with this amazing batter, the resulting French toast gives you a bigger hit of cinnamon and vanilla flavor in every delicious bite. And the best part about it is, it’s just as easy to make French toast this way, without any extra work!

What Are Delicious French Toast Toppings I Can Use?

If you are wondering what to serve with French toast as a tasty topping, you can make it as simple or as fancy as you like! Offer one (or several) of these yummy toppings with your French toast breakfast or brunch, letting those at the table customize their own serving:


Keeping It Simple: Sprinkle French toast with powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar.

Fruity Options: Serve French Toast with applesauce, cut-up fresh fruit, such as sliced bananas, fresh berries, or peach slices. Thawed frozen fruit medleys are a wonderful way to get a variety without having to buy several types of fruit and can be kept on hand for easy toppings to enjoy any time.

Dairy Delicious: Top your French toast with your favorite Greek or low-fat yogurt. Try vanilla, honey, or fruit flavors. Or try a spoonful of a sweet flavored whipped cream cheese on top, rather than butter and syrup.

Going Nutty: Serve your French toast with a dollop of whipped cream or whipped topping and chopped walnuts, pecans, or macadamia nut, slivered, or sliced almonds, or salted, roasted pumpkin seeds.

A Chocolate Fix: Garnish French Toast with a spoonful of hazelnut spread, or sprinkle with baking cocoa, mini chocolate chips or semisweet chocolate shavings.

What is The Best Bread for French Toast?

With classic French toast recipes, that use a thin milk-egg mixture, sturdier pieces of bread are required so that they won’t fall apart when they are dipped and fried. That means you may have to have special bread on hand to make French Toast. Our French Toast batter makes a thicker coating on the bread, meaning the skies the limit on the French toast bread you choose, as it will not fall apart as easily, all snug as a bug in that flavorful batter. Use whatever you have on hand, it’s a fantastic way to use up what you have or to change it up every time you make it! 

Just try to stick to slices that are about as thick as a piece of sandwich bread so that they get done in the same amount of time, or you may need to adjust the temperature of griddle and the cooking time for thicker slices.

Plain Bread Options Try sandwich bread, slices of French bread, baguette, or Italian loaf.

Breads that Add Flavor: Try slices of sourdough, cinnamon raisin, or whole wheat bread.
 

What are variations to this French toast recipe?

You can change up the French Toast ingredients to make it a different dish each time you make it! 

Simple Changes: Try substituting 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or ground nutmeg for 1 teaspoon of the ground cinnamon or 1/2 teaspoon almond or maple flavoring for the vanilla. Change up the bread, as described above or top your French toast with one of the yummy toppings above.

Sandwich Style: Load slices of French toast with cooked bacon and a fried egg, ham and cheese or sausage and cheese, for an amazing knife-and-fork style sandwich.

New Flavors: Or go for an entirely new taste with Yogurt French Toast or Caramel French Toast, for a big flavor change.

Format Flips: Or even flip the standard French toast format, by serving it a unique way with Stuffed French Toast or French Toast Casserole. Any way you serve it, French toast is guaranteed to be a hit.