My love affair with rediscovering french toast continues. Last week it was Apple French Toast, a pile of french toast dripping with self saucing stewed apple syrup. The week before it was Parmesan French Toast (insanely delicious!). This week it’s french toast sticks – eat it with your fingers (tick), tastes like cinnamon doughnuts but a whole lot healthier (double tick)!
Cinnamon French Toast Sticks
I’m loving coming up with fresh takes on french toast! Growing up I always adored french toast but it was always the classic version drowning in syrup. When I was in uni, I discovered how good it was to pile bacon onto it, and yes, still drown it in maple syrup. I used to call this a “Heart Attack On A Plate”. This was before the day when “sweet and salty” became all the rage and everyone I made this for were dubious until they took their first mouthful – then they were converted for life.
I digress. Back to these French Toast Sticks. Two big things it has going for it:
1. Food you eat with your fingers. Need I say anymore?
2. Tastes like cinnamon doughnuts. I can’t admit to any of my friends that I secretly love cinnamon doughnuts, deep fried puffy goodness dusted with sugar. It’s on my list of what I call “Dirty Foods”, food that is oh-so-bad-for-you-I-know-I-shouldn’t-eat-but-secretly-love. Throughout this blog there is no doubt that I will be disclosing many of my favourite Dirty Foods. You will probably be horrified. Or maybe not. Maybe a lot more people than I think secretly love KFC Popcorn Chicken.
The key to french toast sticks that are stiff enough to pick up without flopping is to use stale bread and to use a block loaf you can cut yourself into thick slices (the thicker the sticks, the less they flop). This is the way I like my french toast sticks, but if you don’t have a stale block loaf, it still tastes just as delicious using pre-sliced sandwich bread, it will just sag a bit when you pick it up.
I really do recommend using stale bread where possible for french toast – any french toast. It makes a huge difference because fresh bread soaks up too much egg mixture – even if you dunk it in really quickly – and you’ll end up with french toast that is soggy on the inside.
This recipe only takes about 15 minutes to make, and is super easy. French Toast you can eat with your fingers – something that no kid, big and small, can possibly resist! – Nagi x
Cute spins on French Toast
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Monte Cristo (Ham Cheese French Toast Sandwich)
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And also – Classic French Toast!
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Cinnamon French Toast Sticks
Ingredients
- 4 thick slices white bread, preferably stale (Note 1)
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- Salt
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder
- 3 tbsp butter
- Maple syrup to serve (optional)
Instructions
- Remove crust of each slice, then cut each into 3 equal thick batons.
- Combine the eggs, milk and a pinch of salt in a bowl large enough to roll the bread sticks in.
- Combine the cinnamon and sugar on a plate.
- Melt 2 tbsp of the butter in a large pan over medium high heat.
- Roll the sticks in the egg mixture quickly (do not soak them), shake off excess and place in pan. Cook in 2 batches.
- Turn to cook each side until golden.
- Immediately transfer to the plate with the cinnamon sugar and roll to coat. It's important to do this quickly while they are hot straight out of the pan so it sticks.
- Melt remaining butter and cook the remaining french toast sticks.
- Serve immediately with maple syrup to dunk the sticks in.
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
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what’s the oven temp???🤔
Yums! Made these for my kids this morning with homemade stale bread. Mixed All the ingredients together including the sugar and cinnamon. Rolled bread batons in mixture, cooked in butter and voila! Kids gobbled them up sans syrup!
There is no oven used for this one Angelina 🙂 N x
Made these today with my sister and they were soooo yummy! Seriously it is 12+ hours later and I’m still thinking about them! Such an easy recipe and definitely a sweet treat, my sister and I were completely stuffed after eating 6 sticks each! Will definitely be making this again!
Have you tried freezing these? Wondering if they would freeze well and then pop them in the toaster or oven?
what temp do i set oven at
lmao.
Hi there, if i make these an hour or so in advance, will the sugar and cinnamon not melt because of the heat and time frame before eating them?
You put in a pan, not the oven
So for 4 French toast sticks Does that mean 3 people each get 4 French sticks for 332 calories or is 332 total divided by 3 and that’s how many calories are in each 4 sticks total?
What do you do with the melted butter? Steps 4 and 8 don’t say
Thanks
Hi Erika, you’re cooking the French toast in the butter, so first you add 2 tbls to the pan, cook a batch and then add the further tablespoon to the pan to cook the remaining batch of French toast. N x
10/10! This recipe is amazing! I cut the recipe in half and used whole wheat bread and it was still top notch.👌
DElICIOUS! Tastes just like donuts. I used homemade stale whole wheat bread.
The recipe calls for white sugar – Is that powdered sugar or granulated sugar?
Granulated sugar. But it also taste good if you add powered sugar.
What do you use the melted butter for it doesn’t say in your recipe?
Hi Susan – it’s there in the instructions – step 4 and 8. N x
What should u do if the sugar and cinnamon doesn’t stick
Hi Sian, after cooking, immediately transfer to the plate with the cinnamon sugar and roll to coat. It’s important to do this quickly while they are hot straight out of the pan so it sticks – N x
Love this recipe!
Thanks so much Michelle!! N x
tried a couple of your recipes and all were amazing! I am in love ❤️ with your recipes collection and will keep on trying your recipes during this corona season 😁 thank you so much. Guys, look no further, trust Nagi! I am asian and her asian recipes are top 👍
Does it matter if you use brown bread for this as I don’t have white bread
Not at all! Enjoy! N x
Absolutely delicious!!!
I dusted my finished sticks with brown sugar and placed in oven on 200 farenheit! It made the sticks crazy crunchy and no need for syrup
My little brother and I made this while our grandmother was asleep and they were great! Cooked the leftover egg+milk as scrambled eggs and fed it to our dog. Whole family loved it!
Very easy and so yummy! Substituted pumpkin pie spice for cinnamon and it did not disappoint!
Sounds great Ali, I’ll have to try it! N x
Best french toast!
Is it 332 for 3 pieces of the sliced bread u made into 3 slices or 332 for 2 pieces out of the 4 pieces of bread you used? I’m confussed anyways looks soooo good 🙂
YES!!!! 🙌
OMG! This is so easy and quick to make and absolutely delicious!