This Vegan French Toast is super easy only needing a few simple ingredients, and quick to make! It's sweet and savory in the best ways.
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Why you will love this recipe
- Family Favorite: Who says only for breakfast, this Vegan Cinnamon French Toast is perfect not only for breakfast but great a quick brunch, lunch or even dinner everyone loves this french toast anytime of the day.
- Quick and easy: This Vegan Cinnamon French Toast comes together in a blender or food processor in just a matter of minutes, pour it onto a plate or in a bowl, soak the bread slices one at a time and cook in a skillet, only taking about 20 minutes from start to finish, and clean up is breeze with only a few items to clean.
- Perfect texture: This simple vegan french toast is soft, light and fluffy, there's a hint of flavor from the vanilla, cinnamon, allspice and of course maple syrup if you add it makes it nice and sweet!
- Only 7 Ingredients: That's right, homemade french toast only needing 7 ingredients (plus 2 more if you add the optional ones) to make this delicious Vegan Cinnamon French Toast.
- Vegan: This is an easy vegan french toast and extremely tasty, non-vegans wouldn't even know it's vegan. The perfect taste of French Toast for anytime of the day.
Want more vegan breakfast and brunch ideas? Try my Easy Chia Bowl, Vegan Blueberry Pancakes, Creamy Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal or my Quinoa Breakfast Bowl.
Ingredients
Check out the recipe card below for instructions and quantity to make this Vegan French Toast.
- Plant Milk: I like to use almond or oat milk best and always unsweetened.
- Banana: Acts as the egg for this vegan french toast.
- Vanilla: Adds flavor to this french toast but if you use vanilla plant milk feel free to leave this out.
- Cinnamon and All Spice: Adds flavor to this vegan french toast.
- Bread: I used a sourdough bread but any bread you like best will work as long as it is a firm hearty piece of bread. If it is a soft bread it will be more on the soggy side.
Variations
- Non-Dairy Milk: I prefer like almond or oat milk, but you can use any plant-based milk of your choosing. Make sure it's unsweetened.
- Enjoy anytime of the day: This vegan toast is perfect for breakfast and is a quick easy grab anytime of the day, lunch, snack or even a dinner meal with a glass of homemade oat milk or almond milk.
- Bread: Yes, choose the type of bread you'd like, whole grain, multigrain, whole wheat even a french baguette or if you've made homemade vegan bread use it. Just be sure it's a firm bread not a soft bread, soft bread will end up soggy and hard to flip.
- Berries: Feel free to add berries to this Vegan Cinnamon French Toast like sliced strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or mixed blueberries and raspberries, drop them right on top of the french toast.
How to make this Vegan French Toast
Step 1: In a food processor or blender, add your banana, almond milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and all spice and blend until smooth!
All blended up!
Step 2: Add the wet mixture to a wide bowl or something that will work to dip your slices of bread into.
Step 3: Add about 1 tablespoon of butter (maybe a tiny more) to a skillet and turn on medium heat, once butter is melted all over the skillet dip one slice at a time of bread into the mixture and place on the skillet, repeat with however many fit in your skillet at one time! Let cook approx. 2 minutes or until golden and then flip to the other side gently! Repeat until all bread and wet mixture is gone.
Expert Tips
- No blender or food processor: You can easily mash ingredients with a fork and then whisk with hand whisk or a hand mixer until ingredients are smooth.
- Be sure to use a ripe banana: Not only are ripe bananas easier to mash, they are also sweeter, so you'll want to make sure your banana is perfectly ripe. It should be yellow with some brown specks or spots.
- Storing: You can store this vegan cinnamon french toast in a container in the fridge for 2 days.
Recipe FAQs
Many recipes have vanilla listed as optional, and it will still taste great, but if vanilla is added there's a little additional sweetness to the french toast.
Roasted cinnamon is not the same as regular cinnamon. The roasted cinnamon has a richer and deeper taste than the original cinnamon.
If you soak the bread to long it will become soggy and possibly when you pick it up it will fall apart before getting it to the skillet. For this recipe it just gets a quick dunk in the batter.
Generally french toast will fall apart if it has soaked in the batter mixture to long.
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Vegan French Toast
Ingredients
Blending Ingredients:
- 1 medium ripe banana
- ¾ cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk (I use SILK brand)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon all spice (optional)
Everything Else:
- 8 slices bread (I used a hearty sourdough bread but anything that is firm and not soft will work great)
- 2-3 tablespoons vegan butter
- cinnamon (for topping)
- maple syrup (for topping)
Instructions
- In a food processor or blender, add your banana, almond milk, vanilla, cinnamon, and all spice and blend until smooth!
- Add the wet mixture to a wide bowl or something that will work to dip your slices of bread into.
- Add about 1 tablespoon of butter (maybe a tiny more) to a skillet and turn on medium heat, once butter is melted all over the skillet dip one slice at a time of bread into the mixture and place on the skillet, repeat with however many fit in your skillet at one time! Let cook approx. 2 minutes or until golden and then flip to the other side gently! Repeat until all bread and wet mixture is gone.
- Top with extra cinnamon and maple syrup!
- Makes about 8 slices or about 4 servings
Heather@TheSoulfulSpoon
Gorgeous! I'm going to try this with my Cinnamon Raisin Sprouted Ezekial 4:9 bread!:) Love this!
tworaspberries
I love that bread! that will be absolutely delicious! thanks girl! 😉
Woshondria Fizzer
You must've been reading my mind. I was thinking the same thing when I read this for my cinnamon raisin Ezekiel bread. That will be my breakfast this morning!!!
Becky
I just made this and it was amazing! I also added some cacoa powder and I cooked it in coconut oil instead of vegan butter
tworaspberries
YAYYY I am SO happy you liked it! and adding cocoa powder sounds amazinggg GREAT idea 😉
Patty
Love that bread!! I'm allergic to bananas, any ideas of what else I could use instead of them?
tworaspberries
Hi Patty!
unfortunately I haven't tried it with anything other than bananas but there are a lot of youtube video for vegan french toast that do not use bananas... this one looked pretty delicious to me and is also flavored with cinnamon! hope this helps, have a wonderful day! 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7zilFKSrN0
Renee
What about chia seeds soaked?
tworaspberries
??? for what? in place of the bananas? that might be possible if the consistency was thin + sticky enough... I have not personally tried it, I would maybe grind the chia seeds first and then soak them ...so it could be a more thin and dip-able consistency...
Anu-My Ginger Garlic Kitchen
These french toast look so beautiful, Michell! I love cinnamon in everything. Perfect breakfast recipe.
tworaspberries
thank you so much for the kind words! 😉
Nadia's Healthy Kitchen
This looks so delicious 😀 I haven't had french toast in years! Need to make some soon!
tworaspberries
you TOTALLY need to make this! your gonna love it! thanks girl! 😉
Linda @ Veganosity
This sounds delicious, Michele. I remember when I figured out how to make vegan French toast, it was so exciting! Pinned!
tworaspberries
it's the best isn't it?! 😉 thanks so much for the pin! your the best!
Bethany @ Athletic Avocado
I love the idea of replacing the egg with banana! Simply genius!
tworaspberries
it's the BEST! thanks girl! 😉
Harriet Emily
This looks soooo delicious Michele! I love french toast! Such a great idea to use bananas - they're such an amazing fruit!!! I definitely need to try this 😀
tworaspberries
I totally agree they are the best fruit ever! and your going to love it! thanks girl! 😉
Manali @ CookWithManali
I can never resist french toast, looks so good!
tworaspberries
it's seriously delicious! thanks Manali! 😉
Mira
This looks gorgeous! Will definitely try it!
tworaspberries
you will love it! thanks! 😉
Renee @ Fit For Motherhood
This sounds delicious. We love French toast in our house and I love making meal healthier. I can't wait to make this for my girls. Thank you!!
tworaspberries
they are totally going to LOVE it! thanks so much 😉
Cakespy
If this is what health food looks like, please sign me up 🙂 Awesome!
tworaspberries
it's SO healthy and tastes so dreamy! thanks girl! 😉
Josee Wright
Bananas as egg substitute!!! What a great idea that I will definitely be trying this weekend. ( I am currently vegetarian slowly weaning myself off of eggs). I have been using coconut oil to cook my french toast, rather than butter. They are a hit with everyone. Looking forward to seeing the reaction when I switch eggs to bananas. ☺
tworaspberries
YAY! I am so glad you're going to try this, let me know what you think 😉 eggs can be a hard thing to substitute but with time it gets easier 😉 I hope you have a beautiful weekend and thank you so much for your kind comment!!!
Kris
I don't know what happened but this totally didn't turn out for me and was very soggy. I had to cook it forever to get all that moisture out. When I blended it there was too much froth and too watery. I did add 2 eggs and I put 1 banana and one half frozen banana because that's all I had. Did this happen to me because I added a frozen banana and 2 eggs?
tworaspberries
Hi Kris! well... this is a VEGAN french toast so naturally it will taste a bit different than traditional french toast BUT with that being said the recipe does not call for eggs or frozen banana so yes that would definitelyyy make the results drastically different! I have never mixed bananas and eggs together ever so I can't even imagine what it did for you!
if you are not vegan maybe you should check out my other french toast that was posted a while ago before I went vegan myself... I'll attach a link below...
on another note this french toast is quite soft (as noted in the post) and depending on the type of bread you use (a soft bread of a more firm bread) that will also affect your results... in the recipe notes I do write to run your fingers along the bread to get rid of excess banana wash if you don't like it to be super soft and moist... but again it's a vegan and if you are used to egg version it definitely won't taste the same.
here is the link for the non-vegan french toast:
https://tworaspberries.com/healthy-cinnamon-vanilla-french-toast-vegetarian/
I hope you have a great day! 😉
Stephanie
This looks so good! Cannot wait to try it 🙂
tworaspberries
I hope you love it as much as we did! 😉 thanks so much!
Les
Thanks for the yummy sounding recipe. (BTW, just a note, it's not "wala" but rather the French word voila.)
tworaspberries
😉 thanks so much for correcting that! HA I though "wala" looked a bit strange but wasn't sure! thanks again!
Moose
Thank you, this looks amazing.. I am vegetarian but my grandson is vegan and I have been struggling with finding recipes to make without cheese or eggs.. it would be so nice if more restaurants offered vegan options.
tworaspberries
I totally agree with you! I'm so happy you have something to try now! I hope he loves it! 😉 thanks so much for commenting!
Taj
Can I use frozen banana if I have it?
tworaspberries
Hi!
I have not actually tested it with frozen banana but my best guess is that it should be fine, I would let it thaw out completely before using it just in case there is any frozen ice in the banana from being in the freezer. 😉
Anabel
I just made it with a seeded whole grain bread from Sprouts and it was SO GOOD! Next time I will use a better pan because it was kind of sticking or maybe I just need to buy a new one. 🙂 Thank you for sharing your delicous recipe!
tworaspberries
YAY! I am so happy you liked it! a sprouted grain bread sounds delicious! 😉 it is pretty easy for it to stick to the pan but what I find works the best is to leave it sit until I think it's totally browned on one side because then it seems to flip a little easier I think! thanks for commenting I hope you have a great day! 😉
Kati
They looked good in the picture, but mine stuck to the greased pan and took forever to cook. Not sure what I did wrong but very disappointed.
Michele
I'm so sorry it didn't turn out for you, we love this recipe and make it often... it's possible you used a bread that was too soft the more firm the better! (the more firm the bread the better results, you can not use regular white sandwich bread for this recipe) or its also possible that you didn't grease the pan enough, or the temperature was too high... we always make sure to never skip the step of buttering the pan and cook slowly... because it will definitely stick without the butter and we also use non-stick pans... again I'm so sorry it didn't work for you.
Brooke
This recipe was DELICIOUS! So easy to make to! Loved all the flavors of vanilla, banana and cinnamon. Soo yummy! Will now be added to my family and I’s breakfast go to’s 🙂
Michele Elizabeth
I am SO glad you liked it! thanks for leaving a comment and rating!
Jamie Scott
I am newly Vegan and I would’ve never thought to do this!!! I am BEYOND excited to give this a try. I tried a few other recipes and it is nothing like the real thing… Yay
Michele Elizabeth
I can't wait for you to give it a try I know you'll love it, it's a family favorite.