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This is the best French toast recipe you can make at home. Soft, custardy on the inside, crisp and caramelised on the outside.
If you’re looking for a classic French toast recipe, an easy French toast recipe, or a restaurant-quality French toast recipe, this method shows you exactly how to make perfect French toast step by step. This recipe uses a Michelin-star chef technique from Hélène Darroze to elevate a simple French toast into something rich, balanced, and never soggy.
Unlike basic French toast made with eggs and milk, this recipe uses a light custard (crème anglaise) soak, gentle pan-frying in butter, and a final caramelised sugar finish. The result is French toast that’s creamy inside, golden and crispy outside, and full of flavour.

INGREDIENTS
Slices of Stale Bread or Brioche
500 g Whole Milk
250 g Double Cream
1 Vanilla Pod
2 Egg Yolks
55 g Sugar
Unsalted Butter
Golden Caster Sugar

RECIPE
1. In a saucepan, combine the milk, cream and vanilla pod cut in half lengthways. Bring to a boil
2. Let mixture infuse for 10-15 minutes
3. In a bowl beat the egg yolks then add the milk, cream and sugar mixture. Allow to cool
4. Once cooled, pour the mixture onto a tray or a dish to dip the bread slices
5. Soak the bread on both sides
6. Melt unsalted butter onto a pan over a low heat. Brown both sides of the bread until the milk-egg mixture has set
7. Sprinkle golden caster sugar over the top. Add the bread to the pan and caramelise.
8. Serve with (optional) figs and mascarpone mix

VIDEO CHAPTERS
00:00 – 3 Michelin Star Chef Technique
00:07 – Preparing the Mix
02:00 – Cooking the Mix
03:23 – Preparing the Bread
04:52 – Soaking the Bread and Heating the Pan
05:45 – Cooking the Toast
07:47 – Caramelising the Toast
09:08 – Tasting!

25 Comments

  1. @Dynamice1337

    That loaf of bread was a master class in and of itself…. Let's go ahead and set our breakfast expectations somewhere between the moon and the sun…..

  3. @Port342

    So annoying with these guys trying to reinvent the wheel all the time…. It's fkin french toast dude. You're not doing anything all that special lol you're just doing to much. All it needs is butter and syrup….. And yet think that gives you an excuse to charge $50 for it smh

  5. @fourlakes

    Don’t have time to make clarified butter but do have enough time to make this French toast recipe, custard and all????

  15. @Shadows_Inc

    This was so incredibly unhelpful, it's borderline trolling. No measurements, only one "timer" given (the soak time), no grill temps, nothing. The only thing I learned, is that he used stale bread, and to heat the milk and egg.
    Please, make another video but ACTUALLY giving full information. How many eggs, measurement of sugar, temperatures, what kind of milk, etc. You can't just say "milk egg sugar vanilla butter" without any measurements. Is it whole milk? 2%? Heavy cream? How much milk? Did you use one yolk? Two? How much sugar? That end topping was a bit confusing as well, I don't know what you added.

    There's a lot of "assumed" information that gets heavily glossed over, all I got out of this is watching someone else eat French toast.

  16. @EliasAxelPettersson

    Just add a little sugar [adds a lot of sugar]
    Then, a little butter [adds half a stick of butter for one slice of toast]
    Then, a little more caster sugar [coats the entire side in yet more sugar]
    How many uses of the word "elevate" and word "sort of"?
    Aside from that, it's a delicious recipe 🙂

  17. @Lakimbah

    Thats like 15 things to clean…are you going wash my dishes…fku me cleaning so much for 2 slices

  18. @warrenvos1380

    Parents to kids: "Don't eat sugary cereals for breakfast." Proceeds to make sugar coated, butter fried custard bread lol😅

  19. @airbornr1

    Nah fam, “eLaVatEd” versions of simple meals aren’t it. The best French toast I’ve had was at a greasy diner.

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