Pumpkin Pie Hawaiian Roll French Toast

Pumpkin Pie meets Hawaiian Roll French Toast! We’re taking the most popular breakfast recipe on the blog and making it fall edition. Your whole house will smell like a cozy pumpkin patch after whipping these up!

How to Make the Custard

The process for making French Toast is super simple! There are two components: the custard and the bread. Today we’ll be taking the traditional French Toast custard recipe on the blog and making it pumpkin spice and everything nice flavored.

Here is what you need for the custard:

• half and half
• large eggs
• pumpkin puree
• brown sugar
• vanilla extract
• pumpkin pie spice
• cinnamon

Add all the ingredients to a bowl and whisk very well until smooth and completely homogenous. It will be a beautiful light orange color and smell like a pumpkin spice latte!

I love using half and half to make my French toast because it’s the perfect middle ground between milk and heavy cream. If you don’t have half-and half, you can replace with whole milk. If you have heavy cream and whole milk on hand, you can add equal parts of both and there you have homemade half and half (hence the name)!

Making the French Toast

Now for the bread, we’ll be using Hawaiian Sweet Rolls! If you have the opportunity to, let the rolls sit out on a wire rack for 1 hour or a few hours to dry it out. I never have the time to do this but that’s how traditional French toast is made. If the bread is dry, it soaks the custard better.

There is enough custard to make it through about 24 rolls but you don’t have to make that many if you don’t want to. All you need is a pan and unsalted butter. Just dip the roll in the custard all around and take it out. If you let it sit in the custard too long, it will get soggy so just dip and let any excess drip.

If you’d like the custard to soak deeper into the Hawaiian Rolls, you can use a toothpick to make holes in the rolls so the custard can seep to the center. The Hawaiian Roll brand also sells the sliced brioche bread version of their rolls if you want a more traditional French toast that soaks easily.

Then cook it on a pan with a little bit of butter over medium heat until golden brown all around. You’ll have to constantly rotate it so each side is golden and crispy.

Once you’ve made the desired amount, just finish it off with powdered sugar and maple syrup to enjoy. I also like to add a bit of whipped cream and a dash of pumpkin pie spice on top!

Other Breakfast Recipes to Try

• Acai Bowls
• Shakshuka
• Lemon Ricotta Pancakes
• Strawberry Matcha Overnight Oats

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