Brunch & Breakfast BRUNCH

Ricotta & Honey Toast

Name: Ricotta & Honey Toast
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 slices good sourdough; 150 g ricotta; 2 tsp honey; 1 tsp lemon zest; Cracked pepper

Whip the ricotta with a fork for a minute and it turns from a scoop into a cloud — worth the effort..

By Dana Reyes

Published 23 Sep 2026 · Tested 2 times · 0 comments

Ricotta & Honey Toast — A drizzle that pools at the edges is the whole point.

5 min

Prep time

5 min

Cook time

Serves

4.7

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Whip the ricotta with a fork for a minute and it turns from a scoop into a cloud — worth the effort.

Good bread, toasted hard, is the base; soft bread goes floppy under the cream.

We tested honey and maple. Honey with a little lemon zest is the brighter, more grown-up call.

Ingredients

Serves 2

Instructions

About 10 min from start to finish

Toast the bread until deeply golden.

Whip the ricotta with a fork until smooth.

Spread thick, drizzle honey, scatter zest and crack pepper over.

Testing notes & substitutions

Three rounds of testing turned up three things worth knowing before you start cooking.

Savoury turn

Swap honey for olive oil and a pinch of chilli.

Fruit

Sliced peach or fig in season makes it dessert.

Questions we get a lot

Can I use tub ricotta?

Yes, but whip it; straight from the tub it is dense.

Make it a meal?

Two slices and a side of fruit is a full breakfast.

Dana Reyes

Dana has cooked professionally for eleven years and has been testing recipes for Hearth & Thyme since 2019. She writes about weeknight cooking, slow breads, and the small techniques that quietly change a dish. Every recipe she publishes is cooked at least twice, in an ordinary home oven.