Our luscious Brioche French Toast recipe will feed a crowd or just two people with leftovers. It will also turn a simple breakfast or brunch into a celebration.
Place a cast iron pan over a medium high fire, while at the same time, preheat an oven at 250°F/120°C.
Combine the eggs, milk, cream, brown sugar and salt In a square or rectangular baking dish.
Split the vanilla bean and use a paring knife to remove the seeds from the bean, scraping them from the inside. Add the seeds and the whole vanilla bean to the baking dish with the egg/milk mixture.
Whisk all the ingredients together until they're well combined.
Once the pan is well heated, place two slices of the toast into the baking dish with the liquid mixture. Soak for exactly two minutes on each side.
After you've flipped the bread in the milk/egg mixture, melt one tablespoon of the butter in the pan. The butter should rapidly sizzle. Spread the melted butter evenly throughout the pan.
Immediately add the first two toast slices to the pan. Raise the heat to high and cover. Flip the toast once brown. Each side should take about two minutes to cook. Once the the bread is cooking, add two more slices to the liquid mixture following the same soaking procedure.
Remove the cooked Brioche French Toast and place it in the oven on a sheet pan with a cooling rack. Place two more slices of soaked bread in the frying pan and cook as before. Add more butter if the pan gets too dry or the toast will burn.
Once all of the Brioche French toast is cooked, place on a large plate and garnish with your choice of fresh fruit. You can use bananas as well as seasonal fruits like strawberries, blueberries, peaches or even kiwi.
Pro Tips
Serve with an ample amount of maple syrup.
You can replace the vanilla bean with a half teaspoon of vanilla extract.
You can garnish the Brioche French Toast with any seasonal fruit of your choice as well as bananas, mint leaves, etc.
Brioche French Toast leftovers can be frozen in tin foil for up to two weeks and reheated at 300°F/150°C for about 20 minutes. We recommend against freezing the fruit garnish since the fruit may develop an off flavor when reheated.