Slow Cooker French toast is an easy way to have a delicious breakfast ready to go on a busy morning!
Making breakfast in the slow cooker can be a little tricky. Most breakfast recipes have eggs in them, which means they don’t cook for hours at a time. Most slow cooker breakfast recipes only need 2-4 hours to cook.
So what do you do? You don’t want to cook the recipe for 4 hours from 11 PM until 3 AM and then leave it on warm until 7 AM. I’m not sure that’s safe.
The trick is to use a light timer. Set the timer to turn on at 3 AM and at 7 AM, breakfast is ready!
Seriously, that’s one of the coolest kitchen tricks I know!
Making French toast in the slow cooker really couldn’t be any easier. The only difference is that the bread isn’t slices.
I used an old Challah round bread but any good sturdy bread will work. Challah’s are a little sweeter so that’s why I like them for French toast. I bet cinnamon bread would be delicious, too!
Pour a mixture of eggs, milk, cinnamon and vanilla over the bread and let it cook for about 4 hours on low.
You can use more bread and more egg mixture to make a large slow cooker full for a house full of guests or make less for a busy school morning.
Slow Cooker French Toast
Slow Cooker French Toast
Ingredients
- 1/2 loaf of a 24 ounce loaf of bread
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups milk, almond milk, etc
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Cut bread pieces into quarters.
- In a small bowl whisk together eggs, milk, cinnamon and vanilla.
- Layer half of the bread into the bottom of a slow cooker. Cover with half the egg mixture.
- Layer the remaining half of the bread in to the slow cooker. Cover with remaining egg mixture.
- Allow to sit for a few hours.
- Cook for 2.5 hours on high or 4 hours on low.
- Serve warm with your favorite syrup.
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made this last night did not turn out stuck to bottom of pot and middle was gooey will not try this again
Sorry to hear that! All slow cookers are different so yours may run on the low side. Mine runs hot and I risk burning things often.
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This looks so tasty! I would of never thought to make french toast with a slow cooker! Now I have to go try this!
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I use my crockpot all the time for dinner, but have never used it for breakfast. I’ll definitely have to give your french toast recipe a try. Thanks for sharing at Inspire Us Thursday on Organized 31.
I would never have thought to use a slow cooker for french toast…LOVE this idea:) thanks so much for linking up to wake up wednesdays.
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That is brilliant to use a light timer! Thanks for the tip…I might just have to give this a try! 🙂
Mmm, french toast is a favorite in this house, but so messy and time consuming. I never thought to make it in a slow cooker, great idea!
Great idea! I’ll be trying this next week. Thanks!