Spiced Pumpkin French Toast Recipe (2024)

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This Pumpkin Spice French Toast is a fall dream! Thick challah bread is dipped into a perfectly spiced Autumn inspired custard then fried in butter until it becomes the best french toast you have ever tried.

Fall is in the air folks! The morning air is dewy, the cicadas are beginning to quiet and most importantly, Starbucks has brought back their pumpkin spiced lattes. That’s how we mark the change in season, right? Well maybe it’s just the way I do it. I love the slow drawl from Summer into Fall, where the weather is cool but the sun still shines so brightly. I also love that I can start my morning with a hot coffee without breaking a sweat two sips in.

Now that I’ve started to ease into this season, I’ve realized that Fall mornings arethe best. There is a lazy feel to them that isn’t quite there during the spring orsummer. Fall is the perfect season to make easy French toast, and my Pumpkin SpiceFrench Toast is delicious and super easy to make!

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Ingredients

Pumpkin spice has become one of the most popular flavors of autumn in the last decade or so. Some might even call it an obsession. Whether it’s pumpkin spiced flavored coffee, tea or cake, pumpkin spice rules the fall season. Pumpkin spice is composed of the following spices:

Cinnamon
Ginger
Cloves
Nutmeg

All together these spices create a blend that, added to just about anything, make for a warmer, more flavorful experience. Have I sold you on it just yet?

How to Make Pumpkin French Toast

A bit of pumpkin puree is added to beaten eggs and spiced up with brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg to make the most decadent custard to drench bread in ever.

Fry this pumpkin French toast in a bit of butter and to make the edges super crisp while the inside stays tender and doughy. Try it and see for yourself. Your favorite fall breakfast is here to stay.

Tips on how to make perfect french toast

This pumpkin spice French toast recipe is so fantastic. Those fall spices we all love are found throughout the entire recipe, and the whole thing is absolutely divine.If you ever wanted to eat pumpkin pie for breakfast, you are in luck because thispumpkin French toast has all the flavors and more!

French toast has always been a fairly simple recipe that we whip up on Sunday mornings or alongside mimosas for the perfect brunch with our girlfriends. But as always, there are plenty of mistakes that can be made. Believe me, I’ve made them all.

So here are a few tips to guarantee that perfect crispy-edged, pillowy soft inside and perfectly spiced french toast of your dreams.

Additional Pumpkin Recipes to Try

In my opinion, pumpkin is such an essential flavor for the fall season that it must beworked into as many recipes as possible. I, myself, have used pumpkin in quite a fewrecipes since I started my blog (pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, caramel pumpkin lava cake, pumpkin pound cake, pumpkin cider doughnuts and pumpkin cinnamon rolls) and it seems like every year it becomes more popular. When I started thinking about what screams comforting breakfast to me, I immediately thought about french toast.

I adore having French toast all year round with a healthy addition of butter and syrup.Adding the pumpkin flavor to this recipe only made it better, and I will be keeping as many cans of pumpkin around as possible to make it again and again. It has to be one of the best canned pumpkin recipes ever!

French Toast Recipes

If you like my Pumpkin Spice French toast recipe, try some of my other French toast recipes like:

FRUITY PEBBLES FRENCH TOAST
EGGY EGGNOG FRENCH TOAST

Spiced Pumpkin French Toast

Pumpkin Spice French Toast – A perfectly delicious pumpkin spice French toast recipeis here to make your Fall mornings so much better.

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Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes minutes

Servings: 3 servings

Calories: 159kcal

Author: Jocelyn Delk Adams

Ingredients

▢ 3 large eggs
▢ 3 tablespoons canned pumpkin
▢ 3 tablespoons heavy cream
▢ 2 tablespoons brown sugar
▢ 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
▢ Pinch ground nutmeg
▢ Stale Challah bread sliced
▢ Butter for skillet

Instructions

Whisk together eggs, pumpkin, heavy cream, brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg until smooth.
Carefully dip one side of each slice of bread into egg mixture letting it soak into the bread for a few seconds then repeat on the other side. Set aside each slice.
Heat butter in a skillet until melted and starting to bubble.
Add each slice of bread to the skillet and saute’ in butter until golden brown. Repeat on other side then remove and set aside. (Tip: I like to turn the oven on to 225 and add the french toast to a baking sheet to keep it warm until all slices are done).
Repeat with all slices then serve.
Serve hot with butter and syrup if desired.

Notes

Butter has quite the low burn point which means that if you’re looking for that extra crispy, golden brown experience you might burn your bread before you even get the chance.

Swap out half your butter for a neutral vegetable oil and your french toast will be wonderfully tender in the middle while maintaining a crisp exterior.

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