How To Make Cinnamon Toast In The Oven FAST
FASTEST way of how to make cinnamon toast in the oven. From a former fast food manager, step-by-step guide shows serving in 8 minutes. This is the fastest cinnamon toast recipe on the Internet. See this listed in our Breakfast, Appetizers & Snacks, Bakery, Bread, Desserts, and Sides categories.
Cinnamon Toast Recipe
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Ingredients
- 4 slices bread
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 4 Tbsp sugar
- 3 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Start to preheat oven to BROIL at 500 °F. Set a shelf to the middle.
- Cook bread slices in toaster on one of the lower settings. Toast them about 1 minute for light to medium doneness.4 slices bread
- Lay out all lightly toasted slices on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Add 4 very thin butter slices (about ½ Tbsp) to each toast slice.2 Tbsp butter
- Sprinkle about 1 Tbsp sugar across each toast slice.4 Tbsp sugar
- Sprinkle about ¾ tsp of cinnamon across each toast slice.3 tsp cinnamon
- Add baking sheet of prepped slices to middle shelf in broiling 500 °F oven, watching it closely.
- Bake until dark brown but not excessively burned, usually between 1-3 minutes. Remove from oven and remove toast from baking sheet.
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Ingredients of Cinnamon Toast Recipe
Ingredients for this cinnamon toast recipe are commonly found in everyone’s kitchen. They are bread slices, butter, sugar, and cinnamon. And, for a further homemade taste, you can use homemade bread for your bread slices.
How To Make Cinnamon Toast in the Oven Step-by-Step
Making this cinnamon toast in the oven is very simple with these easy to follow steps. And, it uses an expert restaurant trick to make it consistently fast every time. Plus, you don’t have to flip the bread over in the oven.
- Lightly toast some bread slices in a toaster.
- Layout the light toasted bread onto a baking sheet and add thin slices of butter. Do NOT melt, soften, nor spread the butter!
- Sprinkle some sugar over each slice.
- Sprinkle some cinnamon over each slice. Some spillage is fine.
- Broil in the oven on middle shelf for 1-3 minutes until dark brown. Watch it deliciously bubbling up!
- Serve it up!
Alternative Ways of Making Cinnamon Toast
Here are some other ways to make oven cinnamon toast. All involve a much longer set of steps but the taste will still be real good. While mine takes about 8 minutes and is ready to serve, these take roughly 16 to 25 minutes total time.
- The Best Cinnamon Toast Ever by Southern Bite
- Cinnamon Toast the Right Way by The Pioneer Woman
- The Best Cinnamon Toast by Baking Mischief
- Homemade Cinnamon Toast by Spiced
The Key Advantages of My FASTEST Cinnamon Toast Method
- No melting or softening of butter
- No mixing bowl used
- no combining of butter with sugar or cinnamon
- no stirring together of sugar and cinnamon
- no premixing allows you to customize any of the slices toppings
- No spreading of a hand made mixture
- No long baking that requires a fully preheated oven for tons of electricity or gas
- No removing from oven to change from baking to broiling or flipping slices over
- My broiling uses middle shelf for even and consistent results.
- No major cleanup of bowls and wares; just a baking sheet and butter knife.
Nutritional Values of Cinnamon Toast
This cinnamon toast recipe is about 177 calories and 14 grams sugar per slice. You can use sugar alternatives but many don’t taste the same when cooked so, it’s best to read up on it and test it first. More detailed values are shown in the recipe.
How To Store & Warm Up Cinnamon Toast Leftovers
You can store leftover cinnamon toast at room temperature in a bread bag or other food storage bag for about 2 days. You can heat it up several different ways as shown here.
- Microwave: Warm it up in the microwave for 10 seconds. However, it will be a bit soft.
- Toaster: DON’T reheat this in a toaster!!! This is a fire hazard!
- Oven: Broil it on upper shelf for 1 minute. No need to flip over.
- Air Fryer: Air fry slices (1 layer) for about 1-1/2 minutes at about 360-390 F. No need to turn over.
How To Make Cinnamon Sugar for Toast
You can easily make your own cinnamon sugar in advance and have it ready for several cinnamon toast sessions. Just get an empty large spice jar, canning jar, or a food storage container. Then, in a mixing bowl, add in 4 times as much sugar as 1 of cinnamon. Here are some examples of some premeasured ratios to use.
- 2 Tbsp suar & 1/2 Tbsp cinnamon: good for 2 slices
- 4 Tbsp sugar & 1 Tbsp cinnamon: good for 4 slices
- 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup cinnamon: good for 16 slices
What Goes With Cinnamon Toast
This is an easy one for these breakfast courses.
- scrambled eggs
- fried eggs, sunny side up
- fried eggs, over easy
- just with coffee
However, you generally don’t serve it alongside these popular breakfast items.
- pancakes
- French toast
- waffles
- sausage gravy over biscuits
- egg in a hole
Conclusion of How To Make Cinnamon Toast in the Oven
Now you’ve seen a much faster way of how to make cinnamon toast in the oven. You’ve seen it takes about 8 minutes total time compared to 16-25 minutes time on other methods. It’s just a matter of lightly toasting bread in a toaster. And you saw where you just add slices of butter and finish with sprinklings of sugar and cinnamon. Finally, the cooking isn’t baking, it’s broiling for a couple of minutes. Leave me a comment on how yours went. And, even better, share this on social media to save your friends time on their methods!
Wow, so much easier this way!!!! And it tastes much better.