The Trader Joe's Seasonal Bread You Need To Grab For The Best Fall French Toast

Trader Joe's has one of the most highly anticipated fall season lineups. Where other grocery chains have standard limited-time bakery items and name-brand desserts, Trader Joe's is known for its unique and creative products, with everything from fall-flavored snacks to pumpkin ravioli. But Trader Joe's pumpkin brioche twist bread is one of the very best Trader Joe's fall products of all. And, while it's delicious enough to eat on its own, it will also make the best fall French toast.

A fan favorite, the pumpkin brioche twist bread is a brioche loaf infused with pumpkin flavor and finished with a swirl of classic pumpkin pie spices like cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg running through the crumb. Brioche's buttery flavor and soft, fluffy crumb make it an ideal type of bread to transform into French toast. And the earthy, sweet pumpkin and warming baking spices that run through it will give your French toast the fall makeover it needs. Trader Joe's customers took to Reddit to sing this limited-time fall product's praises. One Redditor proclaimed, "THIS IS MY FAVORITE TJ'S ITEM. I crave it all year and get so excited when it comes out. I get extras to freeze." In addition to eating it by the slice with a slather of butter or cream cheese, most customers use it for French toast. To that effect, another TJ's customer says they buy multiple loaves to freeze "specifically to have french toast months later, it's that ideal for french toast."

Not only did customers rave about TJ's pumpkin brioche loaf, but they also had plenty of great tips on how to upgrade pumpkin brioche French toast using other Trader Joe's products. For that matter, the chain itself recommends swapping regular milk for TJ's pumpkin oat beverage to really amp up the pumpkin flavor, which might get lost under the sweet custard soak of a French toast. You can also add Trader Joe's pumpkin spice blend or a homemade blend of your own to the egg custard mixture to bring out the earthy pumpkin taste and balance the sweetness of the custard with a spicy finish.

If you want to bring an aromatic upgrade to pumpkin French toast, one Redditor recommends "add[ing] a little bit of the tj vanilla bourbon paste to the eggs before soaking the bread." Another TJ's customer had an inventive idea to use chai spice to flavor the French toast custard. They also recommended finishing it with a "spread [of] the pumpkin butter, and maple syrup on it." Maple and pumpkin butter are two seasonal TJ's products with as much fanfare as the pumpkin brioche twist. While some customers say that the brioche bread tends to fall apart when toasted, the custard tends to keep thick slices intact. However, if it does fall apart, one Redditor said, "would make a great French toast casserole or bread pudding, add typical pumpkin spices to the egg custard."