Homemade Texas Toast
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It’s easy to make your own homemade Texas Toast with just 5 ingredients and 15 minutes! After making Texas Toast at home you’ll never go back to store bought garlic toast!
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Homemade Texas Toast
I’m a carb girl. If it’s bread or pasta, I’m all in! One of my weaknesses is a thick, buttery piece of homemade Texas Toast…I usually make it any time we have spaghetti or chili for dinner.
I used to buy the frozen store versions of this delicious garlic toast but once I learned just how easy it is to make homemade Texas Toast I never went back! It’s a money saver to make it yourself too and it only takes a few minutes! Without further ado, my favorite Homemade Texas Toast recipe.
What is Texas Toast?
Texas Toast is a thick, buttery garlic toast that is the perfect side for almost any meal!
Why do they call it Texas Toast?
Texas toast may have been first created in 1946 at the Pig Stand in Denton, Texas, after a bakery order for thicker slices of bread resulted in slices too thick for the toaster and a cook, Wiley W. W. Cross, suggested buttering and grilling them as a solution.
Wikipedia
Homemade Texas Toast Ingredients
- 2 sticks of butter or margarine
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 loaf bakery white bread
Best Bread for Texas Toast Garlic Bread
I start with a fresh loaf of white bread from the bakery at my grocery store-it’s priced usually about $1.50 so not only is this route tastier, it saves me money on my grocery budget as well. You can also make it with Italian or submarine bread as well, I prefer the bread to be as fresh as possible for the best results.
How to Make Garlic Toast
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cut the bread into 1″ slices. In a small bowl, microwave butter for one minute or until fully melted. Add garlic powder, salt, and oregano to the melted butter.
Brush the butter mixture onto both sides of bread with a pastry brush (affiliate link) and place on baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown, flipping halfway through.
Tips for Making Garlic Texas Toast
- Use a serrated knife to slice to bread without squishing it.
- Use fresh bread for the best result.
- I do not recommend freezing texas toast. Make it fresh for the best results, it only takes a few minutes!
- Margarine can be substituted for butter without affecting the end result.
My husband and boys can finish off an entire loaf in five minutes flat, it’s so yummy!
If you are a carb addict like I am you’ll also like this Homemade Biscuit Recipe.
These recipes go perfectly with this homemade Texas toast garlic bread recipe:
- Instant Pot Spaghetti and Homemade Meatballs
- Slow Cooker White Chicken Chili
- Homemade Chili and Mexicorn Corn Bread
If you try this Texas Toast garlic bread recipe, please comment and rate it below, I love hearing from you!
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Homemade Texas Toast
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Yield: 8 1x
Description
It’s easy to make your own homemade Texas Toast with just 5 ingredients and 15 minutes! After making Texas Toast at home you’ll never go back to store bought!
Ingredients
- 2 sticks of butter or margarine
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp oregano
- 1 loaf bakery white bread
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cut the bread into 1″ slices.
- In a small bowl, microwave butter for one minute or until fully melted.
- Add garlic powder, salt, and oregano to the melted butter.
- Brush the butter mixture onto both sides of bread with a pastry brush (affiliate link) and place on baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown, flipping halfway through.
- Serve immediately.
Notes
- Use fresh white bread, submarine bread, or Italian bread
- Use a serrated knife to slice to bread without squishing it.
- I do not recommend freezing texas toast. Make it fresh for the best results, it only takes a few minutes!
- Margarine can be substituted for butter without affecting the end result.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: bread
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 269
- Sugar: 0.1 g
- Sodium: 149.6 mg
- Fat: 23.2 g
- Carbohydrates: 13.5 g
- Protein: 2.5 g
- Cholesterol: 60.7 mg
This recipe was originally published in January 2015 and updated with new pictures and answers to reader questions in September 2019.
This is garlic bread. Texas toast is made by grilling/frying.
Did you actually try the recipe to give it a two start rating or was it just on the basis of you not agreeing it was true Texas toast?
You don’t have to try garlic bread to know its garlic bread. This recipe, except pan fried, is how you make Texas toast. This recipe is for garlic bread. There is no argument. If you don’t understand, go eat some Texas toast, and then eat some garlic bread. The difference is in how you cook them. You can’t change the recipe because you want to.
The bread is the predominant difference between Texas Toast and Garlic Bread.
Garlic bread is made with Italian bread, French bread, or baguettes, each of which has a hard crust and “buttered” on one side. Texas Toast is made with thickly sliced bread, typically made from white bread, and “buttered” on both sides like in this recipe, and typically prepared by grilling, broiling, or baking
This recipe IS for Texas Toast.
Turned out perfectly!
So good!!
GREAT POST!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING….
We make this at least once a month so I thought I’d report back to tell you how much we love it. Thank you!
Why does the #1 recipe for Texas Toast on Google begin with a loaf of bread? lmao
I used this recipe for my house full of boys that are picky eaters. I used the artesano bread by Saralee and when you flip halfway through I put shredded Colby jack and monteray cheese on it. I should have made a double batch because it was a total hit! Thanks for posting the recipe!
I’ll have to try it like that next time I make it, thanks for taking the time to come back and leave a comment! ~Melissa
This is just what I am looking for and I’m going to try tonight .
Just made your diy Texas toast with baked ziti. My wife said the toast is better than the store bought. Thanks! She didn’t mention the ziti.
awesome, I’m so glad you liked it! ~Melissa
I just came across your blog and love it! I used this to make BBQ beef sandwiches like one of my favorite restaurants growing up and it was fantastic!
that sounds delicious Lisa! I’ll have to try that! ~Melissa
Same here! I can go without sweets, no problem! Just don’t make me give up my carbs! 🙂
Texas Toast looks good! I am working at my meal plan for next week, Will definitely work it in. I am always happy to find recipes on your blog. They have all been so good! thanks!
Thanks so much Regina! I hope you like this one as well-it’s definitely a hard to resist one for me!
I can give up sweets any day! Just don’t take away my carbs!!! 🙂
oh, and the Texas Toast looks really good!
Right on the money
I’m a carbavore too!
So glad I’m not the only one May!