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Made this today as part of Christmas breakfast! Used twice the cornstarch for a thicker sauce as suggested! Soooo good! Rave reviews from my 21 and 6 year old sons! Thank you!! š
Chandra
Today’s eggnog French toast happiness is sponsored by King’s Hawaiian, makers of the yummy bread that got fried up into beautifully golden brown THIS.
Raise your hand if you love eggnog! *ooh! me me me me meeee*
When I think of eggnog, I think of dark-by-4pm nights and my dad doing his nightly December ritual: sitting by the fire after dinner, flipping through piles and piles of Christmas cards, sipping eggnog out of a old-fashioned tin Trout Lake Camp mug and snacking on a few Christmas cookies. And me and my sister sitting on the floor strategically close to Dad, nabbing any leftover cookie crumbs or single sprinkles that might just happen to crumble our way because that’s how we do, me and my sister. Doesn’t it just feel like Little House on the Prairie in a less classy, more scroungy, 1980’s kind of way?
Ah, yes. The magic of Christmas.
How good is this stuff? Like wows. Sweet King’s Hawaiian bread gets dunked in the most simple, creamy, smells-like-heaven eggnog French toast batter and fried up to golden brown perfection and topped with a homemade honey raspberry sauce. Oh good gravy, that stuff is yummy.
As much as I love the French toast, this weekend I am doing something besides eating French toast I KNOW IT I KNOW IT I KNOW. It’s a big deal. Me and Bjork and Mom and Dad are going to a Christmas concert for my all-time favorite Christmaser singer and the musical idol of my childhood: Amy Grant.
AMY! Aaaay-meeeeee! Amy, it’s me, Amy!
Between mirror lip-synching and sisterly dance parties, Amy basically wrote the soundtrack to my tween years so there’s a lot of love there beyond just the charm of her Christmas albums. Her concert was, I think, the first concert I ever went to with my fellow Amy-loving friend, and we basically sat in the back somewhere and geeked out with overwhelming bangs-and-braces fangirl love. I was probably wearing denim bib overalls. I mean, WHAT ELSE. Seriously.
Tomorrow: this for breakfast, pizza downtown for dinner, and Amy’s “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” for dessert.
Bjork has a thing for French toast and he also has a thing for eggnog — a thing called Buying It and Never Actually Drinking It. So this is a perfect way for me to 1) use up the eggnog like the always resourceful and clever homemaker that I am, and 2) make Bjork happy on a Christmasy December morning.
It has obviously nothinggg to do with me loving that heaping pile of warm, soft golden brown French toast with the raspberries drizzling down the side and a nice creamy shmear of whipped cream. NOTHING AT ALL to do with that. Never.
May your days be merry and bright, and may all your breakfasts be Eggnog French Toast with Raspberry Sauce.
That totally works. I bet Amy loves that.
Eggnog French Toast with Raspberry Sauce
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: makes 10 pieces of French Toast 1x
Description
This Eggnog French Toast is so simple – just four ingredients to make the batter! Topped with a homemade raspberry sauce.
Ingredients
For the Eggnog French Toast
- 10 slices King’s Hawaiian Bread
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups eggnog
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
For the Raspberry Sauce
- 1 1/2 cups frozen raspberries
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in 1 tablespoon cold water
Instructions
- Set the bread slices out on a plate overnight to dry out. If you don’t have time or you’re making this on short notice, that’s okay – this isn’t essential, but it helps the texture.
- For the raspberry sauce, heat the raspberries, water, and honey in a small saucepan over low heat. When the mixture resembles a thin sauce and is slightly bubbling around the edges, add the dissolved cornstarch and water and stir to combine. Continue to heat for a few minutes so that the cornstarch thickens the sauce just slightly. Remove from heat and let stand while you prep the French Toast. If you want a thicker sauce, add more cornstarch.
- Whisk the eggs, eggnog, flour, vanilla, and cinnamon together until mostly smooth. Preheat a griddle over medium high heat (about 400 degrees). I always use my Griddler for French toast – it has the temperature dials right on the side and it makes it super easy to get that even golden brown color. Highly recommend!
- When the griddle is hot, place a small pat of butter on it to melt. Dip each slice of bread in the egg mixture and flip back and forth several times to fully saturate. Place the dipped bread on the hot, buttered skillet and fry for 5-8 minutes, flip once, and fry for another 5 minutes or until both sides are evenly golden brown.
- Plate the individual slices of French toast and top with the raspberry sauce, whipped cream, maple syrup, powdered sugar, or any other fun + yummy thing that you like.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: french toast, eggnog french toast, french toast recipe, raspberry recipe
Nutrition information is for two pieces of French toast and a scoop of raspberry sauce.
Thank you to King’s Hawaiian for sponsoring this eggnog French toast party!
Disclaimer: this post contains affiliate links.
Thatās bread is soooo good! Sometimes Iāll just grab a slice and eat it plain. Iām thinking it would make amazing French Toast and I canāt wait to try the Raspberry sauce! Golden Corral used to serve French Toast with a raspberry syrup that was amazing! They donāt have it anymore so I came looking for a recipe. After checking out a few of youāre othwr recipes I can already tell your blog is going to be a fave! Thanks for all the work you put into it and for sharing!
Very Nice food
Nice information about this recipes. This is very delicious, i like it. Thanks a lot.
Mmm…yumy i like this n thanks for your share
Half and half is a mix of 1/2 whole milk and 1/2 cream, typically used as a more stable cream in coffee. It has a fat content of about 12% and is sometimes used to make ice cream.
Made this today as part of Christmas breakfast! Used twice the cornstarch for a thicker sauce as suggested! Soooo good! Rave reviews from my 21 and 6 year old sons! Thank you!! š
Glad you liked it! š
French toast for breakfast! LOVE.
wow this looks really great!
We love hearing that. Thanks, Michelle!
Wow this looks really good.
This toast is incredibly wonderful. Love the raspberry sauce. This is going to be a huge hit on instagram!
Nice pictures, how do u get those bright food colors
Thanks Praveen! Lindsay has lots of food photography tutorials on Food Blogger Pro (http://foodbloggerpro.com) and also a few posts here on Pinch of Yum (https://pinchofyum.com/category/food-photography). Hope that helps!
Merry Christmas!
I love this french toast idea.
Can it be made the night before, put in the fridge and baked the next morning?
Have a Joyful Day :~D
Charlie
It probably could be! I would just soak the bread and put it all in a pan and then bake it together in the oven rather than frying each piece individually.
I absolutely love french toast… and breakfast… and raspberry sauce… basically, this is perfect and I must make it!
French toast is my FAVORITE breakfast! This looks amazing! I had no idea King’s Hawaiian made loaf bread. I’ve only seen the dinner rolls here in the South.
This seriously looks SO good!!
This is the most dreamiest of breakfasts.. I might have to start a thing with egg nog… the same thing as Bjork!
Have I been living under a rock?! King’s Hawaiian has bread loaves? Ah this is life changing. By this I mean this recipe using king’s hawaiian bread. This looks insanely good, especially among the sea of peppermint recipes that are circling right now!
I know! I don’t see the loaves in grocery stores often but I DO see them here and there!
French toast is so underrated but this looks amazing!
If french toast can be awe-inspiring, this most definitely is. Looks amazing, Lindsay!
Thanks Melanie!
Seriously loving this! That King’s Hawaiin Bread looks awesome, like angel food cake or something! Yumm!
Oh wow, this looks amazing! I was much more of a waffle sort of kid and didn’t care too much for French toast, but you definitely wouldn’t have to twist my arm to eat a slice of this… or 10!
Uhm, how delicious does this French toast look?! Confession: I’ve never had eggnog in my life! But I still believe you that this is AWESOME! š
Get out! That’s crazy to me. go buy some! š
Whoa. This eggnog and raspberry pairing looks unreal girl!! Ohhhh my!
Thanks Katrina! š
Okay, so I think I have just found our new tradition for Christmas morning, thank you very much! Ana loves egg nog, so I will have to buy it secretly to have enough to dip the yummy bread. Thanks! I am so jealous of your concert plans. I was going to surprise Ana with tickets, but the only ones left were obstructed view. Boo hoo! Have a tremendous time!
Aw, shoot! Wish you guys could have made it! We had a great time. I’m listening to the Amy Grant CDs all day every day now. š
PAGING BJORK… TECH CLEAN-UP IN AISLE TWO…
The comments are really long and skinny on my iMac. I had to scroll down for forever and ever. Something is up and you’re the guy to fix it. I’ll be checking later. š
Lindsay, if I ever doubted your culinary genius, this would have proved me wrong for eternity and beyond. Eggnog and sliced King’s bread… It doesn’t get any better than that!
Next brunch!