French Toast Muffins
French Toast Muffins are made from buttery croissant cubes baked into sweet, delicious muffins with a crunchy streusel topping. They're perfect for a slow morning brunch or a quick and easy breakfast.
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If you love a good muffin for breakfast, like my Sour Cream and Blueberry Muffins, or you're a classic French Toast, French Toast Casserole, or Air Fryer French Toast Sticks fan, you'll love this breakfast match made in heaven.
Why Make These French Toast Muffin Cups
These muffins are great for special occasions but are still easy enough to whip up for breakfast before school. Muffins are always a winner. They're something the whole family will indulge in without complaints, and to me, that's always a win.
Let's Gather The Ingredients
- Milk: You could use whole milk, 2% or heavy cream for a richer, more tender option.
- Sweetness: granulated sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and optional powdered sugar
- Eggs
- Spices: cinnamon and nutmeg
- Croissants: You can also use brioche bread, challah bread, French bread, or even white bread.
- Butter: Cold for streusel topping
- All purpose flour: Adds the perfect texture to the streusel topping.
Recipe Tips
- The next time you make these muffins, try some add ins. Mix in mini chocolate chips, chopped pecans, or diced apples for extra flavor and texture.
- Always check that your muffins are done in the middle before serving. The easiest way to do this is by inserting a toothpick or fork into the middle of the muffins and see what comes out. If it has wet batter, the muffins will need more baking time. If it comes out clean or with a few crumbs from the streusel topping, the muffins should be finished baking.
- These muffins can be served at room temperature but I think they're best when the are served warm with a drizzle of warm maple syrup.
Recipe Faq's
Yes, this easy French Toast Muffins recipe can be altered! Leftover bread is the best type of bread to use. Stale or slightly dried croissants soak up the egg mixture
While croissants add a rich, buttery texture, you can use other cubed bread that you prefer. Some other options to try are brioche bread, challah bread, or Texas Toast, French bread for a similar result.
Yes! You can prep the muffins the night before, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate. Just add the streusel topping right before baking the next morning for a quick breakfast
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Sure, wrap each muffin in saran wrap and place it in a ziplock freezer bag—microwave or place in the toaster oven to heat for an easy breakfast.
Yep! You can add blueberries, apples, or chopped nuts to these French toast cups.
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French Toast Muffin Cups
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 5 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 8 cups cubed croissants
- maple syrup
- powdered sugar if desired
Streusel Topping
- 4 tablespoons cold butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a muffin pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl whisk together milk, sugar, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg until combined.
- Toss in cubed croissants
- Dived the mixture into the muffin cups. Pour any extra liquid over tops.
- In a small bowl add the brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and cold butter and mix using a fork or your fingers until crumbly.
- Spoon crumb mixture over the tops and gently press.
- Bake for 25-28 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve with maple syrup and a dusting of powdered sugar if desired.
- Store any leftovers in and airtight container.
These muffins were delicious!!!! I needed a "grab and go" morning treat where I volunteer. Because of that fact, I knew the syrup would not be a serving option. So, instead of the 2 tsp of vanilla extract in the egg mixture, I put 2 tsp of maple extract. I also added 1 tsp of maple extract to the streusel topping. (Adding liquid to the topping mix makes it a little gloppy, so you may need to refrigerate the topping a while and then crumble it.)
One more thing--- I prepped everything the night before (refrigerated, in separate bowls, the egg mixture and the streusel; cubed the croissants in a bowl left on the counter) which made everything easy to assemble and bake at 6am! Thanks for a great recipe!
I love nutmeg in my french toast. The cinnamon and nutmeg marry so well together in recipes. You can leave it out, the muffins will turn out fine.
Would it be okay to leave out the nutmeg or is it pretty important for flavor?
Yay Nilda! Its definitely one of our favorites 🙂
OMG This Sounds So Delicious & Will Be Maken Them For Christmas Morn'n & Will Become A Tradition!