Cinnamon Challah French Toast

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By Becky Krystal

With a crusty cinnamon sweetener top, this crockery is fundamentally a French toast brulee.

In testing, we liked utilizing challah for its sturdy, chewy texture and affluent flavor. Brioche and sourdough would beryllium bully arsenic well.

Letting the soaked breadstuff remainder successful the refrigerator for 10 to 30 minutes allows the custard to soak farther into the bread, which gives a much azygous texture truthful you don't get an eggy extracurricular and regular breadstuff connected the inside.

Adapted from an archetypal look by cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson.

Ingredients

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Servings: 4-8

  • 1/4 cupful granulated sugar, positive 2 tablespoons for sprinkling
  • 1 spoon crushed cinnamon, positive 1/4 spoon for sprinkling
  • 4 ample eggs
  • 1 spoon vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cupful half-and-half (may substitute full milk)
  • 1 pinch good salt
  • Eight (1-inch-thick) slices challah
  • 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, oregon arsenic needed

Adapted from an archetypal look by cookbook writer Lisa Yockelson.

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published September 4, 2018

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Updated March 16, 2026

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