French Toast Breakfast Sandwich

It’s time to upgrade your breakfast with a sandwich that’s both sweet and savory! This French Toast Breakfast Sandwich takes a layer of cheesy, red pepper-spiced eggs between two crusty pieces of brioche drenched and flavored with vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Now, how is that for a flavor combination?

If breakfast sandwiches are your favorite, try my Breakfast Cheeseburger Croissant Sandwich, Cheesy Beef Breakfast Burrito, or a Stuffed Bagel Breakfast Sandwich.

I grew up in the country. So early in my childhood, I embraced the fact that breakfast foods were on the menu at just about any time of day, including lunch and dinner. The two things that were always readily available and easy to make were eggs and French toast.

Filled with fluffy scrambled eggs (with some heat from crushed red peppers), this sandwich is perfect to get your day started. Instead of making eggs and french toast separately, make them into one quick and easy meal idea by putting them together — and drizzle a little maple syrup for good measure and to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Ingredients you’ll need to make french toast sandwiches:

• For the scrambled eggs, you’ll combine brown eggs, grated parmesan cheese, shredded mozzarella cheese, crushed red peppers, sea salt, and black pepper
• For the french toast, you’ll need brioche bread slices, evaporated milk, sugar, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, and nutmeg. Instead of brioche bread, you can also use you can also use croissant buns, hamburger buns, potato buns, challah bread, or sliced french bread.
• And because you can’t have enough cheese, we add sliced Swiss cheese to the sandwich as well

How to make a french toast breakfast sandwich:

Prepare the eggs. To say there is a science to making the perfect egg would be an understatement. So, let’s walk through this step-by-step. Add 4 eggs to a mixing bowl with cheese, salt, and pepper. Whisk (paid link) your eggs. Whisking adds air to the eggs, which helps to make them fluffy when cooked. You want to whisk (paid link) the eggs until they are light, airy, and uniform in color.

Cook the eggs. Add butter to a skillet at medium heat. Once the butter is melted and foamy, add your eggs and reduce the heat to medium-low. Using a rubber spatula (paid link), slowly push the eggs away from the edges of the pan, gently stirring and folding. Repeat this until the eggs form into soft curds. Remove the eggs from the heat when they are slightly “wet,” as they will continue cooking after removing them from the skillet. Set the eggs to the side.

Prepare the french toast. Add 1 egg, evaporated milk, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and vanilla extract to a bowl and whisk (paid link) together. Dip 4 slices of brioche into the custard mixture on one side of the bread. Please put it on a plate and set it to the side.

Cook the french toast and assemble the sandwich. Heat your skillet to medium heat. Add 2 tablespoons of butter. Once melted, add the french toast, dipped side down. Layer with a slice of Swiss cheese, 1/2 of the scrambled eggs, a second slice of Swiss cheese, and the second dipped bread, dipped side facing out. Cook for 3 minutes, then flip, cooking the other side for 3 minutes.

Serve. Service drizzled with maple syrup or a side of maple syrup to dip!

So the next time you can’t decide between French toast or scrambled eggs for breakfast, you’ll know exactly where to come! My French Toast Breakfast Sandwich is fulfilling, tastes great, and makes for the perfect grab-and-go recipe.

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