Milk Toast

Milk toast is an easy-to-make, delicious, and comforting breakfast made with milk, bread slices, butter, cardamom, and honey. This simple, wholesome breakfast is perfect for anyone who loves to start their day on a warm and comforting note.

It is sweet, warm, chocolatey, and aromatic—a perfect package of indulgent breakfast.

Prepared using four main ingredients, this milk toast takes only 5 minutes to make from scratch. Plus, it’s a vegetarian recipe that can easily be made vegan and gluten-free with a few adjustments.

On this page, I’ve shared a step-by-step picture and video recipe on how to make Milk Toast at home!

About Milk Toast

The viral milk toast recipe is an easy breakfast or brunch dish where bread slices are toasted in butter, cooked with milk, and served warm with a drizzle of honey.

This ultimate comfort breakfast is super soft, flavorful, delicious, and satisfying. With its creamy and rich taste, it’s perfect for a cold morning breakfast, an afternoon snack, or whenever you want something simple yet delicious.

The great thing about this easy toast recipe is that it uses ingredients readily available in the kitchen. Plus, you can add any toppings you like.

This milk toast recipe is my take on the viral version, with a bit of inspiration from my Mom’s recipe.

My Mom used to make milk toast for me, but since I wasn’t fond of plain milk, she would flavor it with cardamom powder. She also toasted one bread slice and used sweetened milk to make the toast.

I’ve made slight changes to this recipe to make it more aromatic and enticing—especially for folks like me who don’t like the taste of milk but still want to explore recipes that use it. This recipe takes regular milk toast and elevates its appearance, aroma, and taste.

In this recipe, I have used cardamom flavored milk for the toast and added a sprinkle of dark chocolate shavings and a dusting of icing sugar. Trust me, this toast doesn’t taste like milk at all. It’s super soft, moist, and oh-so-delicious. It’s easy to make but tastes like something from a fancy café.

So if you have some picky eaters at home, this is a must-try recipe. Just make it once, and I’m sure your little ones will keep asking you to make it often.

This Milk Toast

✓ Is simple, quick, and easy to make

✓ Makes a warming and comforting breakfast

✓ Is easily customizable

✓ Takes only 5 minutes

✓ Can be made vegan and gluten-free

✓ Is loved by kids and adults alike

✓ Uses ingredients available in the kitchen

Milk Toast Ingredients

Milk: As the name suggests, milk is the main ingredient of this toast recipe. Milk forms the creamy base for this toast. Whole milk or full-fat milk makes the creamiest and most delicious toast, but you can also use low-fat milk. If you follow a vegan diet, you can use dairy-free alternatives like almond milk, soy milk, or oat milk.

Butter: Used for toasting the bread slices, butter gives richness and a golden brown color to your bread.You can also use ghee for toasting bread.

Bread: I have used classic white bread slices for this toast, as they soak up liquid well without falling apart. However, this recipe also works with sourdough, whole wheat, or multigrain bread.

Cardamom Powder (optional): A sweet-scented spice that enhances the flavor of milk. Adding a bit of cardamom powder gives this toast an aromatic flavor, but it’s entirely optional.

Toppings: The toast recipe uses honey as a drizzle for sweetness. I have also sprinkled dark chocolate shavings on top for a decadent touch and dusted it with icing sugar to make it delicately sweet and look like a special bakery treat. The use of icing sugar and chocolate shavings is optional.

Variations

Spices 

Instead of ground cardamom, you can also use ground cinnamon, allspice, or a pinch of nutmeg.

Nuts

Instead of chocolate shavings and icing sugar, you can add toppings like almonds, pecans, walnuts, pistachios, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, or flaxseeds.

Fruits

For a refreshing burst of flavors, top your toast with fruits like bananas, mangoes, apples, strawberries, or blueberries.

Vegan Milk Toast

Use plant-based milk and vegan butter for a dairy-free version.

Nutella Milk Toast

Love Nutella? Spread Nutella on the bread slices to make a sandwich, then cook them in butter and milk.

Serving Suggestions

This toast tastes best when served hot, straight from the pan. It makes a delicious and filling breakfast with a cup of hot caramel chai or coffee. You can also serve it as an afterschool snack with a glass of chilled milk or a berry smoothie.

It looks gourmet enough to serve at brunch parties alongside croissants, corn chilli cheese toast, strawberry cottage cheese toast, pomegranate toast, date bars, garlic bread, pistachio date cups, iced spanish latte, or iced caramel latte .

This milk toast is sweet enough to enjoy as a quick late-night dessert with a scoop of dulce de leche or strawberry ice cream.

Storage Suggestions

This toast is best when fresh, but if you have leftovers, you can store the toasted bread in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to one day. To reheat, microwave it for 20 seconds or warm it on the stovetop. If it has dried out, you can add a little more milk to make it soft and creamy again.

Important Tips and Tricks to Make Ultimate Milk Toast

1. Bread: I used white bread slices, but you can use any kind. Just make sure the slices are neither too thin nor too thick.

2. Toasting: Toast the bread until golden on both sides to prevent it from becoming soggy when the milk is poured over it. Unlike French toast, where the bread is dipped in milk, milk is poured over the toasted bread.

3. Heat: Keep the heat on medium-low to prevent burning.

4. Milk: You can use chilled or room-temperature milk, but avoid warm milk or hot milk, as they can cause the toast to break while cooking.

5. Don’t Overcook: After pouring the milk, don’t overcook the bread. Just cook it until it absorbs the milk to keep the toast moist and soft.

6. Sweetener: Bread Milk toast and honey go really well together. Instead of honey, you can drizzle maple syrup, agave nectar, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate syrup, or caramel syrup.

7. Cardamom: Adding cardamom powder is optional, so if you don’t like it, feel free to omit it from the recipe.

Milk Toast [Recipe]

Make delicious milk toast in just 5 minutes! A comforting breakfast of toasted bread with milk, cardamom, honey, and chocolate toppings.

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★★★★★
(Rating: 5 from 6 reviews)

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Prep time 🕐	Cook time 🕐	Total time 🕐
1 mins	4 mins	5 mins
Category ☶	Cuisine ♨	Serves ☺
Breakfast	Indian	1
Nutrition Info ⊛		Serving size ⊚
289 calories		1

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INGREDIENTS

For Milk Toast

• 1 cup full-cream milk
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 3 slices of white bread
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder (optional)

Toppings

• 1 tablespoon honey or maple syrup
• Dark chocolate shavings (optional)
• Icing sugar (optional)

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INSTRUCTIONS:

How to Make Milk Toast

1. Place 3 slices of bread in a stack on a chopping board and spread butter on the top side. Heat a skillet or non-stick pan over medium-low heat. Place the buttered side down, and spread butter on the top side as well. Toast until golden brown on both sides.
2. In a bowl, mix the milk and cardamom powder. Pour the milk over the toasted bread slices in the skillet and let the bread soak up the milk for 1-2 minutes. Cook on medium-low heat until the bread absorbs the milk and becomes soft but not mushy.

Serve:

1. Once cooked, carefully transfer the milk toast to a serving plate. Drizzle with honey, and if desired, sprinkle dark chocolate shavings and a dusting of icing sugar to make it extra indulgent and sweet. Enjoy your delicious milk toast with a hot cup of coffee, tea, or a glass of chilled smoothie.

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NOTES:

1. You can also use sourdough, wheat, or multigrain bread.
2. Use vegan milk and vegan butter for a dairy-free version.
3. Maple syrup, agave nectar, or sweetened condensed milk can be used as a sweetener.

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Author: Anupama
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