A couple of weeks ago I posted a Low Carb Pumpkin Quick Bread recipe, and in the post I went on and on about how I thought it would make some seriously amazing french toast…
Well friends, I finally made it happen and it far surpassed even my expectations! 🎉
Because the original low carb pumpkin bread recipe was really tender and *cringes* moist, I made some tweaks to the bread recipe to make it sturdy enough to stand up to being dipped in the egg wash for french toast.
This modified low carb pumpkin bread recipe is also being used for a fantastic low carb Pumpkin Bread, Feta and Sausage Stuffing that I’ll be posting later this week. And yes, it IS as delicious as it sounds!
Meanwhile, let’s get back to this sooper dooper awesome french toast recipe!
Pumpkin-y and satisfying, this was the perfect weekend breakfast!
As a side point I made this french toast recipe on the same morning as I made the Low Carb Mexican Coffee from last week and they made a spectacularly delicious combo together. #somuchcinnamon
I used a sugar free pancake syrup on my french toast, but if you don’t have any or don’t like the consistency of it, you can serve this with a generous amount of butter and a sprinkle of sweetener and cinnamon like I use in my Snickerdoodle Crepes Recipe.
I know it takes a little forethought and planning to make this since the pumpkin quick bread needs to sit a day before slicing, but I promise you that it’s totally worth it!
My strategy is to make 2 loaves at a time and freeze them in half loaves – that way I can have it available for the french toast, or the stuffing, or just to have a slice or two with my coffee in the morning! #yummy
Pumpkin Bread French Toast – Low Carb and Gluten Free
This low carb and gluten free pumpkin bread french toast is perfect for a leisurely weekend breakfast or brunch! Keto and Atkins friendly!
- Yield: 4 servings, 2 slices each
- Category: Low Carb Breakfast Recipe
- Cuisine: French American
Ingredients
For the Pumpkin Bread:
- ¾ cup butter, melted
- 4 large eggs
- 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 cup canned pumpkin puree
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 4 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup erythritol sweetener
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground allspice
For the french toast:
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 Tbsp erythritol sweetener
- 8 slices pumpkin bread (3/4 inches thick)
- 1 Tbsp butter for frying
Instructions
For the pumpkin bread:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F)
- Combine the melted butter, eggs, almond milk, and pumpkin puree in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Combine the almond flour, coconut flour, sweetener, baking powder, salt, and spices in a medium bowl and stir well.
- Pour the blender ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until well combined and moisture is absorbed.
- Line a long, narrow loaf pan with parchment paper and spoon the batter into a 12 x 4 loaf pan.
- Bake the bread at 350 degrees (F) in the center of your oven for 60 minutes (or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.)
- Turn off the oven and leave the bread in there for an additional 15 minutes.
- Remove the bread from the oven and then from the pan using the parchment paper base to lift it out.
- Cool on the counter or in the refrigerator loosely covered for a minimum of 4 hours, but for best results leave it overnight before slicing.
For the french toast:
- Combine the eggs, heavy whipping cream, cinnamon and sweetener in a medium bowl and beat well until smooth.
- Melt the butter in a nonstick saute pan over medium heat.
- Carefully dip a slice of the pumpkin bread in the egg mixture on both sides for just a few seconds, and cook in the butter for about 2 minutes per side or until golden brown. Remove the french toast to a warmed plate and repeat with the remaining slices.
- Serve warm with butter and sugar free syrup or cinnamon and sweetener sprinkled over the top.
Notes
Approximate nutrition information per serving:
2 slices french toast: 531 calories, 49g fat, 6.75g net carbs, 16g protein
1 loaf of modified bread: 3130 calories, 280g fat, 51g carbs, 87g protein
(divide by number of slices to get info per serving)
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I baked this this evening and had to modify as I had cashew milk and not almond, and a sweetener blend of erythropoietin and stevia so I halfed the amount to taste since pyure can be quite sweet. It smells amazing! I don’t know if I can wait to try it!!!
Hi, will this be good to use a couple days after baking for French toast? Thanks
Love pumpkin bread,this looks so delicious.
LOVE this bread. Thanks SO very much. I would like to try adding pecans to it but am wondering if it would hold up have you tried that? Also recipe says 51 carbs for the whole loaf. Is that net carbs (with fiber and sugar alcohols subtracted) or total carbs? Thank you!
Yes, it’s net carbs Renee!
This pumpkin bread french toast sounds delicious, and I love that it is gluten free. Will definitely have to try this.
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Can’t wait to try this. Perfect combination of my loves of French toast and pumpkin. :) 🎃🍞
When I type the recipe into my fitness pal, the nutrition facts for the French toast stated it’s about 20 net carbs per slice, about 40 per serving. Can you explain the difference between your stated calculations and my fitness pal? I find this difference on a lot of recipes, not just yours. Very much appreciated.
MFP is notoriously inaccurate because they use averages of brands and have errors in their database. I get this question a lot – I use calorie king and I put in each ingredient in by brand and then tally up everything by hand rather than relying on their database and program to get the math right.
I’d really like to make this, however tree nut allergies. Can I use regular flour and milk?
I’m sorry, but regular flour just won’t work the same way as the low carb flours in this recipe so all of the ratios would be much different. Your best bet might be to search out a regular pumpkin bread recipe and replace the sugar with granulated sweetener and then make the french toast with that instead!
this is so delicious looking and ive made this and it is delicious
This is amazing! I think I might have underbaked the bread, it was moist and solid, but it held together and after I turned it into french toast it tasted like SB’s pumpkin bread to the max. I used 1/4c coconut palm sugar and a 1/4c sugar for sweetener, we aren’t super low carb, and it is great. I cannot wait to share this with everyone on the planet!
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Seriously. I mean, SERIOUSLY! This is fantastic! So moist and delicious. I used the leftovers to make the pork sausage stuffing and I practically want to weep. I’m definitely making both recipes again. I’m new to the keto diet, but can’t wait to try more recipes on this site!
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This bread is my savior for fall! Tastes like pumpkin pie and feels like cheating! I substituted brown sugar substitute for the sugar substitute and used 2 whole eggs and 2 egg whites. Came out perfect!
So glad you liked it Jamie – it’s still my favorite fall bread recipe too!
Man, this turned out amazing! I feel like I’m cheating, big time, but nope! Just delish!! I followed the recipe like written except I only had a bit of erythritol so used xylitol for the remainder. I used my 9×5 loaf pan and covered it lightly with foil for the last 15 min. Those were my only changes. I’d forgotten I had some powdered swerve so used that in my egg wash. Yum!!
Can you pleas tell me the number of grams of fiber in the modified loaf? I’d like to know the net carbs before I start making and devouring! Thanks.
I always post the net carbs with fiber already subtracted Carmen!
This was fantastic! Thanks for the great recipe.
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Hi Mellissa – I noticed in your comments you’ve said this recipe differs from the original pumpkin bread recipe, to make it sturdier for the french toast, by having less liquid and more coconut flour. But the original recipe has 1/2 cup coconut flour and this french toast one only has 1/3 cup, which is less. Is there a typo in one of the recipes? I ask only because my (cunning) plan was to make two smaller loaves of half each recipe, putting it into two smaller pans. One to scoff down now and one to wait for french toast! Thanks you.
Delicious recipe and satisfied a couple of different diets. Thank you for publishing. The website is difficult to use because of the number of ads. It runs very slowly slows down my typing. I’m seeing ads on top and bottom of the screen and in the middle of recipes that make it very easy to click on the wrong thing.
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I have been kn a low carb diet for a year and this is one of the most delicious recipes I have found! Thanks so much! I made two loaves tonight and just had two slices! Trying the french toast tomorrow morning! Thank you!
Sounds like a great recipe. What would work in place of the erythritol ? Thank you
Any sweetener you want to use but I can’t guarantee the same results I got with the swerve.
Hi Melissa, I can speak for Z Sweet. It works fab in all my low-carb baking and I love the great taste.
Pumpkin purée comes in two size cans. Which did you use in this recipe, 16 oz or 28? This recipe looks delicious!
The recipe calls for 1 cup of canned pumpkin puree – since one cup is 8 oz you would be fine with buying a 16oz can which would be enough for 2 batches.
So…this is in the oven now and I realize I forgot the sweetener. Probably best to not bake after a bottle of wine! I may just add some more sweetener to egg wash in the morning. Merry Christmas!!
I liked your website, buy couldn’t take the pop ups and ads. Just way too much of them.
There shouldn’t be popup ads obstructing your view so if you have them it might be an issue with your browser?
Hi Melissa, I have been wanting to make this recipe for a while. I just can’t see to find the size pan that you used. Can I use my 8×4 and if so, what would the temp and timing be? Thank you so much!
This is the second time I have made this, I have made one cake like. moist in the middle and the other drier.
This is such a great and easy to make recipe to do the best of both worlds, a low carb bread and cake.
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Hi Mellissa, I’m new to the Keto diet and have to say loving your receipes and your sense of humor, a must when you have sugar cravings! lol Anyway I’ve noticed that my foodbills have doubled since doing this diet (as carbs are generally cheaper). Do you have any tips for cheaper meals or any advice?
keep up the good work!
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gotta try this! and maybe as a bread pudding, too!
This. Sounds. So. Good.
I’ve been playing with a similar pumpkin bread recipe (low-ish carb, gluten-free), but haven’t quite hit the nail on the head yet. Yours looks straight up PERFECT. Not to mention you turned it into french toast, which is scientifically proven to make everything better. Also, the photos are amazing. Also, I’m kind of drooling now.
Wow! This is so good! I enjoyed this french toast for lunch yesterday. I didn’t have any super fine almond flour so I mixed my dry ingredients in the food processor to make the almond flour a little finer. Turned out perfect! Can’t wait to have some more french toast. Thanks for the recipe!
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Baking my pumpkins today, to have this on the weekend! Looks so good! So if I just wanted to make one loaf of bread to eat and to make the French toast, I should use the modified recipe? Could I still add the pecans in the modified recipe and have it be okay for the French toast?
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You can keep the nuts in Malainie and use the modified recipe. Be sure your pumpkin is really thick and well drained because any extra moisture will affect the loaf and make it soggy! Enjoy!
This is a fantastic recipe!! I made this bread last night with some modifications due to allergies and sensitivities (coconut oil for butter, coconut milk for almond milk, 1 cup sunflower seed flour and 1 cup pumpkin seed flour instead of almond flour). It was very moist, and fantastic tasting. I can’t wait to make it into French toast! May end up being ‘Brinner’ tonight! Thank you so much for the recipe!
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So glad it worked out for you LeeAnn and thanks for sharing your substitutions!!!
Hi. Can i substitute 1/2 and 1/2 instead of almond milk? Thsnk you!
Yes, you can but it will increase the calories and fat by quite a bit so just be aware of that if you’re keeping track. Enjoy!
What dimensions for the pan?
I used a 12 x 4 loaf pan which is narrower than a typical pan and gives better results for this recipe so it cooks evenly all the way through.
Have this in the oven right now! I can’t wait to try it tomorrow.
Mellissa,
My pumpkin bread was a little crumbly. slices didn’t want to hold together. What do you think my issue is? I did love the recipe, as I have most of your recipes! But not sure I would be able to make the French toast with it since the bread didn’t work. Any suggestions??
It’s hard to say what your issue was Diane, though if you didn’t wait overnight to cut into it then that might have been part of the problem. As I mentioned in the post, this is a modified version of the original recipe that has less liquid and more coconut flour so it’s much sturdier and stood up perfectly fine to the batter as you can see in the photos. Enjoy!
I did wait the overnight to cut it. Like you said it is moist! I love it just the way it is, and won’t change a thing! I will have to try the modified version for the French toast! Thanks again for all your fantastic recipes!!