Denny's French Toast

By Addie

"I do not remember where I got this recipe, but my husband says it tastes just as good as what he had at Denny's. I am just amazed at all of the great reviews on this recipe!! My family loves it, so I thought I would share it here and I'm so glad I did because it seems you all love it just as much!!! Thanks to all of you who have tried it!"

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2/3 cup whole milk
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
• 6 slices Texas toast thick bread
• 3 tablespoons butter
• Powdered sugar
• Butter
• Syrup

Preparation

Step 1

Mix together the eggs, milk, flour, sugar, vanilla, salt& cinnamon.

Heat a large skillet, or griddle. When the skillet is hot, add 1 tablespoon butter. If the butter smokes, your pan is too hot; turn down the heat.

Dip each slice of bread into the batter for 30 seconds on each side. Let some of the batter drip off, then put in skillet.

Cook each slice 1 1/2-2 minutes per side until each side is golden brown. Add more butter, if necessary, to cook all of the slices.

To serve, put on plate, dust with powdered sugar. Serve with butter & hot syrup.
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REVIEWS: (413)

First, and foremost, this recipe ROCKS!! Secondly, I have noticed a good bit of people are having issues with lumps or floating cinnamon. Best advice I can give, after experimenting with a few ways of doing it, is to mix your dry ingredients first. Followed by your milk, but like a third of it at first to get it wet. Add yours eggs in last. This should help get things well on their way with way less lumps. Enjoy!

This is my 3rd time of using this recipe and I absolutely love it!! I've been on WW in the past and was looking for ways to slim down the recipe - so this time I used "Soft" 100% whole wheat bread, wheat flour, non-fat milk, and cut the sugar down to about 1/4 cup. It was great!! My husband (who is a picky eater) and my 2 year old son loved it!! Also....this makes quite a bit of French toast, I think I used about 3/4 of a loaf of bread. So what we have left over I put in a zip lock bag in the freezer, and then for a quick breakfast you just pull out a couple slices and throw in the toaster (I usually have to put it in twice in our toaster) and it comes out great!!

Word's cannot describe how wonderful this recipe is. Every other week, I make up large batches of it to put in the freezer. My kids pop a couple of slices into the microwave and have a delicious, hot breakfast before school. Thank you so much for posting this!

This is a great recipe! I used fresh french bread from our local bakery and cut it into thick slices. Both of my kids ate a ton of this. I will definitely make this again! Thanks for the recipe!!

Very easy and delicious! However, I found that no matter how low I set my stove, my slices were burning when I used butter to cook them. I switched to canola oil and things came out much better. I'd recommend just putting some butter on top when serving for that butter flavor (even better, whipped butter like Denny's does), or use only clarified butter to fry these up in your frying pan. Mixing the dry ingredients together in a small bowl then adding to the egg mixture helps it all combine with no lumps. I used Whitewheat bread, which was perfect -- just enough crust, thickness and chewiness to it, and did not soak up too much batter. I also added a tiny splash of orange extract (could also use orange juice,) since I've noticed when eating french toasts at restaurants, there's often hint of orange flavor that adds a bit of unexpected and sophisticated yumminess. This recipe is a total keeper! Thank you for sharing it!

Off the charts delicious. We made it as written, using Texas Toast with amazing results. My husband also threw in poppyseeds. We will be making this often. Thank you. (Definitely mix the dry, and the wet, and then combine the two. Finally we used eggbeaters instead of eggs and you could not tell the difference.

Putting wet ingredients into a blender then add the dry ingredients. Blend for a smooth batter. Quick & easy.

Yep this recipe is delicious! I mixed dry ingredients first, then slowly added milk then last the eggs. No lumps. Thank you!

I haven't made this yet - I am going to tonight - but I notice the lumps of flour seem to be a big deal for a lot of people. I plan on first mixing the eggs, sugar & vanilla. Combine the flour with the salt and cinnamon in a seperate bowl. I'll add the flour and the milk alternately, beginning with the flour and ending with flour. You shouldn't have any lumps after doing it this way. It's the same way you'd make a cake batter. :) Hope I can help!!

This is beyond fabulous. My sweet DH made this for me the first time for breakfast in bed; he dug this recipe up on RZ all by himself. We use Texas toast and a little extra cinnamon, and it's the best. Crispy on the outside, soft but not soggy on the inside. You can avoid the little lumps of flour by blending the mixture in a blender or food processor. We've made it for my parents, and even my picky father loves it too!

I have my friends over for a weekly Sunday brunch. It was one of my friends' birthday on the Saturday before and she requested that we have this French toast for dinner. When I asked her what she wanted for Sunday brunch, she asked, "Would it be rude if I asked you to make that French toast for brunch, as well??" Point taken. This is a fantastic recipe and I can't imagine going back to my old way of making French toast!!

Wonderful! I used the food processor to mix everything and didn't have any issues with lumps of flour or clumps of cinnamon. Everything was well distributed throughout the dip.

My picky 4 year old son ate a full slice (xtra large Texas toast) and 1/2 of mine! Definitely a keeper!!!! Thanks!

I thought that this was good, not great. I had to use the mixer to get rid of the flour lumps and I wish it had more vanilla and cinnamon. I didn't really taste a difference using the flour and sugar.

Yummy! I substituted in egg whites and splenda and it was so good! The whole family cleaned their plates! I did have the little flour lumps with my hand mixer, but that is because I didn't pay attention and then was in a hurry. It tasted just fine and the lumps were not even visible after cooking on my Presto Skillet at 325 degrees.

Oh yummy!! Thank you so much for posting this recipe!! I have never been able to make french toast without having raw centers. I'm sure it was the flour making the batter a little bit thick allowing it soak into the bread but not saturate it that made all the difference!! EXCELLENT recipe, it is now our Saturday morning treat!! I also used regular sliced wheat bread with no problems (just soaked it for 10 sec on each side instead of 30)! Thanks again!!

Great recipe. Very quick and simple. I used a regular whole wheat loaf of bread (because that's all I had) and dipped each slice 15 seconds per side, any longer would weigh the bread down and cause it to tear. Thanks for posting.

I have made this a TON of times. I make it for company, it is SO GOOD! I made it this morning with sourdough day old bread, it was fantastic! I don't cook it in butter, as the butter always burns on me, I just use margarine. I also use 1% milk, other than that I follow the recipe. Make sure you whisk it together well to avoid clumps from the flour. Also if you don't use thick bread, make sure it is a day or so old, otherwise it will fall apart in the batter. Thank you for sharing this recipe!!!

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!! I found this recipe and threw it all together and it made a FAB breakfast! My husband requests this all of the time now! And I read the comment that talked about the floating flour and cinnamon in the mix, but I had floating flour and cinnamon and carried on as usual and I didn't even see and remains of it on the bread once it was cooked.. So if this happens to you - don't worry! It tastes amazing & you won't even be able to tell!! Thank you for such an amazing recipe :)

My kids love making this!!!!!!!! They LOVE it

Not quite Denny's but decent.

Last night I couldn't wait to get up this morning to make the French toast. They were delicious! This is definitely a recipe to keep! Thanks a lot! :)

Great! For no lumps, mix dry ingredients, add milk and vanilla and mix until smooth. Mix in eggs last. The kids gobbled this up. Thanks for sharing the recipe!

This recipe was a hit for my family. The toast was so full of taste and very filling. I don't know that I can ever use the old recipe again! Will definitely pass it on and use it again. Thanks!

This is my favorite french toast recipe, I can see why it has so many 5 stars! Today I mixed Kahlua in place of the vanilla (I was out) and it turned out great. I've always mixed the cinnamon and vanilla together first before adding to the other ingredients and that ensures the cinnamon is distributed evenly through the batter.

Hands down the best french toast!