Grammy's Kitchen · French Toast · Brioche French Toast
One of 89 french toast recipes we measured
from sugarspunrun.com
6 cooks on sugarspunrun.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 89.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 65% | 57% |
| fat | 15% | 0% |
| egg | 71% | 60% |
| total sugar | 4% | 8% |
| salt | 0% | 0% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 200 g | 4 large eggs |
| 182 g | 3/4 cup half and half |
| 12 g | 1 Tablespoon granulated sugar |
| 1 teaspoon orange zest | |
| 3 g | 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon |
| 2 g | 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract |
| 1 g | 1/8 heaping teaspoon table salt |
| 43 g | 3 Tablespoons unsalted butter (divided) |
| 280 g | 7 slices brioche bread (sliced to be 1” thick) |
| Additional butter (maple syrup, or preferred toppings) |
Method: 7 steps, published by sugarspunrun.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Hi, my first time to your site, and won't be my last time. Wow amazingly good French toast. The orange zest is brilliant, it adds a fresh zing in the background of the creamy, cinnamon flavor. I cut the recipe in half since there's only two of us, but now I w” — a cook, 5.0★
“Great recipe, the best I’ve ever eaten. I did use Brioche bread which was a softer, thicker crust. I added nutmeg as well as that’s a fav spice in my kitchen. Topped the cooked slices with a fruit spread vs syrup and it was sooooo tasty.” — a cook, 5.0★