• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Renaissance Mom

Renaissance Mom

Better home cooking

  • Recipes
    • Breakfast / Snack
    • Lunch & Dinner
    • Sweets
    • Happy Hours
      • Cocktails
      • Small Bites
  • Bar Notes
  • Home & Garden
  • Breakfast / Snack
  • Lunch & Dinner
  • Sweets
  • Happy Hours
    • Cocktails
    • Small Bites
  • Bar Notes
  • Home & Garden
  • About
  • Privacy Policy & Disclosure
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Bread / Honey Sesame Toast

Honey Sesame Toast

Crispy and not at all greasy like French toast, making honey sesame toast with is a great way to make use of day-old bread. Have it for breakfast or anytime-of-the-day snack.

Recycling day-old bread into honey sesame toast

I got the idea from the American Heart Association Cookbook (1973) that my husband bought from a book sale back in 2006. I’m a big fan of sesame seeds and the idea of combining them with butter and honey attracted me immensely. So, when I saw the recipe for this toast with butter, honey and sesame seeds, I didn’t have any seconds thoughts about trying it.

Of course, I tweaked the recipe a little. Instead of brushing the bread with a mixture of butter and honey, I dipped the bread in the mixture to allow them to soak up the butter and honey. Ahhh… I tell you, they’re much, much better than soggy French toast.

Years later, my younger daughter made honey sesame toast based my my tweaked recipe from 2006, and a curious thing happened. She left the bread soaked in the honey-butter mixture for over ten minutes and the bread sticks got so soft that it was tricky moving them to the baking tray. She was worried that they would never turn crisp. I suggested that she turn down the oven temperature and bake the bread a little longer.

The result was even better than what I made with my tweaked recipe in 2006. So, consider this the tweaked version of a tweaked recipe.

Honey Sesame Toast

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
There's more than one way to make toast out of stale bread. You can go savory or sweet. In this recipe, the sweetness of honey is combined with the richness of butter to rehydrate bread. Sesame seeds add a layer of crispness and flavor.
Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 12 mins
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine International
Servings 4 people
Honey sesame toast on white plate
Print recipe

Ingredients
  

  • 4 slices day-old bread crusts removed
  • 5 to 6 tablespoons salted butter
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons raw wild honey
  • ¼ cup sesame seeds any color will do

Instructions
 

  • Slice the bread into four equal pieces.
  • Toast the sesame seeds in a frying pan until lightly browned. Toss them often for even browning. Transfer to a plate and cool.
  • With the heat turned off, melt the butter in the still hot frying pan.
  • When completely melted, pour in the honey and stir well (see notes after the recipe).
  • Place the bread in a single layer in the frying pan. Turn them over to coat the other side with the butter-honey mixture. Move them around gently so that they absorb all the liquid in the pan.
  • Preheat the oven to 300F.
  • Line a baking sheet with a silicone mat or non-stick paper.
  • Using a spatula, lift each piece of bread and transfer to the lined baking sheet (make sure that they are at least half an inch apart for better heat circulation).
  • Sprinkle sesame seeds over each piece of bread.
  • Bake at 300F for eight to 10 minutes or until browned and crisp.

Notes

You may use less butter and more honey or an equal amount of butter and honey. It’s just that I wanted my toast more buttery than sweet so I used more butter than honey.
Updated from two recipes originally posted in June 18, 2006 and February 23, 2018
Keyword bread, Toast
Cooking with Leftovers
Turkey macaroni salad sprinkled with Parmesan and parsley

Turkey Macaroni Salad

Leftover Roast Turkey Farmer’s Pie

Leftover Roast Turkey Farmer’s Pie

Bacon and Ratatouille Pasta

Bacon and Ratatouille Pasta

Published: September 27, 2021 • Last modified: March 24, 2022 ♥ Bread, Recycled Leftovers, Breakfast / Snack

This blog is moving. Go to Umami Days to update your bookmarks.

Previous Post: « Dulce de Leche Macchiato and Rolled Wafers Dulce de Leche Macchiato
Next Post: Fruity Nutty Chicken Salad Fruity nutty chicken salad »
Baker’s Notes

Choux Pastry (Pâte à Choux)

Cook’s Notes
Raw whole chicken

Avoid Salmonella and Campylobacter

Farm chickens

Chicken 101

Fresh chicken in Cu Chi Market, Vietnam

Chicken Cuts and Buying Guide

Sidebar

Recycled Leftovers

Beef Brisket BBQ Salad

Pasta with ham, bell pepper, carrot and peas in sour cream sauce

Creamy Ham and Veggies Pasta

Beef Brisket BBQ Quesadillas

Beef Brisket BBQ Quesadillas

Honey and sesame seed biscuits made from excess pie crust

Honey and Sesame Seed Biscuits

  • About
  • Privacy & Disclosure
  • Contact

Except for stock photos and blockquotes, everything © Renaissance.Mom. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.