This yummy brunch idea is perfect for lazy weekend mornings and feeds a crowd. Can easily use your bread of choice or bake in a casserole dish—very customizable! Dairy and refined sugar free and can be adapted to be gluten free.
If there’s one thing I look forward to on the weekends, it’s our lazy mornings. Since it’s my favorite meal of the day, we’ll often wake up and make a big breakfast/brunch. We’ll even make several dishes some days and graze throughout the morning, skipping lunch.
Bready, sweet breakfast dishes are my favorite. Give me allllll the french toast, pancakes, and waffles…hold the healthy egg white omelet for my hubby.
I mean, I’ll eat it, but in my mind I’ll be imagining that it’s a giant stack of pancakes instead. For realz.
These french toast cups are super simple to throw together. Much easier than standing over the stove flipping one bread slice at a time. You could even forgo using a muffin pan and toss the eggy bread into a baking dish and make a casserole. I just love the little individual servings though and these DIY parchment paper muffin liners make them look extra fancy!
A drizzle of this simple chocolate maple syrup just takes these to the next level. My french toast cups may look more like they’re drowning in chocolate syrup, but whatevs. 😉
Enjoy!
- 6 large eggs
- ½ cup coconut milk or coconut cream
- 1½ cups almond milk (or other milk of choice)
- ⅓ – ½ cup maple syrup
, honey
, coconut sugar
, or brown sugar (use more or less to suit your taste)
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½–1 teaspoon cinnamon, optional
- 8–10 heaping cups of 1-inch cubed bread (I used challah, but brioche, french, hawaiian, whole-grain or gluten-free bread will work)
- ⅓ – ½ cup chocolate chips, optional
- 12 oz. fresh raspberries (or sliced strawberries)
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, 
, or brown sugar (use more or less to suit your taste)
- ½ cup maple syrup
- 4–6 tablespoons cocoa
or cacao powder
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1–2 teaspoons milk, only if needed to thin out the syrup
or 
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with parchment liners (DIY tutorial here.) or grease pan if not using liners. Alternatively, you can bake the french toast 'casserole style' in a greased 9x13 pan.
- Crack eggs into a large mixing bowl and beat with a whisk. Slowly whisk in milks, sweetener, vanilla extract, butter, and cinnamon.
- Add cubed bread and gently fold until all bread pieces are coated in egg mixture. Let soak a few minutes and fold again.
- Place a few pieces of soaked egg bread into the bottom of each muffin cup. Add in a few berries and a sprinkle of chocolate chips (optional). Continue to alternate soaked bread and berries/chocolate. At the end, push bread down into the cup so that it stays together after baking and top with extra berries.
- Bake for 25–35 minutes until french toast is lightly browned and tops aren't squishy when pressed.
- Remove and let cool for a few minutes before serving.
- To make the chocolate maple syrup, whisk together maple syrup, cocoa powder and vanilla extract. Add a little milk, if sauce is too thick.
- Serve french toast muffins warm with extra berries, chocolate syrup, and/or a sprinkle of powdered sugar
You may also enjoy these similar recipes:
Classic French Toast
Coconut French Toast Parfaits
Apple Crisp French Toast Bake
This looks absolutely amazing! I legit just at Frosted Flakes for breakfast which is nothing compared to this haha I’m going to have to keep this bookmarked (and pinned) so I can try it out!
Thanks Keating! I appreciate you pinning!
Oh my! I want to eat one of these right now (but it’s 9:30 pm) Pinning this to make tomorrow! This is a gastronomic gift.
Haha, thanks for the funny comment Alexandra. Have a wonderful evening!
These look so scrumptious, and now I’m officially counting down to the weekend 😉
Thank you friend!
These look amazing! I’m totally bookmarking for when I’m in a baking mood!
Thanks for bookmarking, Mary! Have a lovely weekend!
Oh my gosh my mouth is watering! This looks so good!
Thanks Madi!
These look amazing!!! I’m a huge brunch lover and am SO excited to try these! My mouth is already watering. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for the kind words, Carly!
Oh my gosh this looks so good! I am so writing this recipe down
Thanks Leslie. Enjoy!
Yummm!! This looks so delicious!
Thanks Talha! Have a great weekend!
This french toast recipe looks so yummy! I love sweet and bready breakfasts and I love doing bigger breakfasts on weekends. I will have to try making this soon!
Thank you Jessica!
You take such amazing food pictures! Yummmm. Thanks for the recipe!! I was actually thinking of making French Toast not long ago. ;3
Thank you Winta Le (what a pretty name). Have a great weekend!
OMG these look amazing, so yummy! I can’t wait to try them out.
Thanks Bethany!
Hi, Joscelyn! This looks so tasty and easy to bake. I really love what you did here!
Thank you Raj!
I love these super cute French toast cups! What a brilliant idea Joscelyn! 🙂 Cute presentation even when you have guests over and they would have perfect little individual portions! Again I always love the composition of your pics 🙂
Thank you for the love friend. Have a wonderful, fun weekend
I actually just bought two huge containers of strawberries and need to figure out what to do with the leftovers after the dessert I’m planning. These will be perfect with them instead of with the raspberries. What a lovely breakfast they’ll make 🙂
Thanks!! Pretty photos too.
Thank you Michelle! Have a great weekend!