French Toast Sticks – Freezer Meal

If you are looking for an easy breakfast to make ahead of time this recipe for French toast sticks is the one for you! Whether you’re preparing freezer meals before a new baby’s arrival or you like to have kid-friendly breakfasts on hand to pop in the toaster making these French toast sticks will help make your life easier.

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Directions:

Step 1

Start by setting the griddle to 350 in order for it to begin heating up.  Using a griddle will make cooking the french toast sticks a lot faster.

Step 2

Next, taking 6 slices of bread at a time, stack them on top of one another and cut the stack into thirds.  A serrated knife should easily saw through the bread without smashing the pieces.  Repeat until all the bread has been cut up.

Step 3

Then whisk together the milk, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla, and eggs. 

Tip – I would recommend continually mixing throughout the dipping process or your sticks will end up with a lot of cinnamon in the beginning and very little at the end.  That being said, you can always add more cinnamon to the egg mixture or directly onto the sticks.

Step 4

Individually, dip each stick into the egg mixture making sure to coat the bread on all sides. 

Tip – I choose not to do more than one at a time because I don’t want my bread too soggy but do whatever works for you. 

Place the stick immediately on the griddle.  Continue until your griddle is full but you have enough room to flip the sticks when ready.  I fit about 18 sticks on at a time, then I only need to make three batches.

Step 5

Flip each french toast stick once the first side is nicely browned.  Usually by the time I have filled the griddle the first stick is already set to be flipped.

Step 6

Once nicely browned on the second side, you can eat immediately or remove each french toast stick to a sheet of parchment paper to cool.  Continue cooking the second batch of french toast sticks and repeat until all are cooling on pieces of parchment paper.

Step 7

Once cooled, move each layer of parchment paper (with sticks on top) to a 9×13 pan – you may need to rearrange the french toast sticks to fit and possibly add another layer of parchment paper as you don’t want the sticks touching one another.

Tip – If your freezer is bigger than mine (which is probably is) a cookie sheet instead of a 9×13 would work too. 

Place the 9×13 pan in the freezer for about an hour.

Step 8

Now the sticks can be easily transferred into freezer bags.  I filled two freezer bags with my french toast sticks.

How to Heat From Frozen

When you are ready to eat the french toast sticks just pull out however many sticks you want and pop them in the toaster. 

Sometimes you might need two rounds of toasting the sticks to get them warm enough throughout. 

Now you can have breakfast at any time of the day or night!

If you like this meal you won’t want to miss my recipe for oatmeal cream pie cookie cups.