French Toast is now portable!
Take your French Toast to work.
Take it to class, take it in the car, sneak it into your little sister’s piano recital… Just don’t blame me if people give you weird looks :-?.
Fast Food?
When I was little, Burger King French toast sticks were a rare treat. On long car trips, or if I had an early-morning soccer game, we’d sometimes pick up BK French toast sticks for breakfast. Yesterday I decided to use Ezekiel cinnamon-raisin bread and make my own French toast sticks:
French Toast to-go!
(serves 2)
Categorized here: Non-Dessert Recipes.
- 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk of choice
- 1 medium, overripe banana (see nutrition link below, for substitution ideas)
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/16 tsp salt
- optional: oil or margarine for cooking
- 4-5 slices bread (or cinnamon-raisin bread)
Either blend first five ingredients, or thoroughly mash your banana with a fork and then add other ingredients (excluding bread). In a wide, shallow dish, put a slice of bread into the batter and let it sit for 30 seconds on each side. (Don’t rush this step!) Fry in a little bit of vegan butter or oil (or you can coat the pan with oil spray if you prefer), and cook on medium-low heat. You’ll probably want to do one slice at a time, so there’s room to flip when it browns. Obviously, you can just eat this as regular french toast… but it’s way more fun to cut into strips and eat with your hands!
Got any remaining batter? Pour it on top of your French toast sticks!
Top with powdered sugar or Sugar-Free Powdered Sugar.
Or dip in syrup, or spread with peanut butter!!
Question of the Day:
How often do you eat fast food?
I think I was destined to be a vegetarian… Even when I was little, I never liked fast-food burgers. My favorite things to order were the Frostys, Taco Bell cinnamon twists, and McDonalds apple pies.
Yesterday I ate my French toast with this milkshake.
Completing the fast-food makeover ;).
I haven’t eaten fast food in about 5 years now. My body feel AMAZING without it! I don’t even crave it in the least bit
Mmmm french toast sounds soo good, always! I made my mom french toast out of leftover banana bread slices yesterday. Soo good! &Fast food, I never go anymore, ever . I can just make my own versions so much better, without the worries behind a fastfood chain preparing my meal or adding unnecessary weird things to my food.
Are the nutrition facts for the whole batch?
no, per serving
I love french toast and actually enjoy the vegan version much better– I love banana 🙂 Ya I am with you on not loving fast food all that much as a child, but do enjoy tast treats!
Anything portable is a plus for a busy student 🙂 So thumbs up for the recipe 😀 I’m kind of excited to see how it works out with the banana in the recipe ^^
Those look great! Good idea with the banana!
I actually haven’t eaten fast food in about 10 years. My family never ate it when I was young either unless it was subway or a coffee chain, even that was rare, only in hunger emergencies. We alway had the mentality that it would be better to go somewhere nice less often than somewhere cheap more often. I was really brought up with health as a focus for food. I am very thankful that fast food has never been a part of my life haha.
You’re making me want to do breakfast for dinner, asap!
Katie,
I just tried making these then rushed to my computer to write a comment about them. They were delicious! I put a little vegan butter on them because with the bananas and syrup they were too sweet for my liking. I also added a little flax to a few of them and it didn’t change the flavor much. I’ve made so many of your recipes, but this is one of my favorites for sure! I will definitely be bookmarking this one. Thank you 🙂
Aw I’m so glad! 🙂 🙂
Thanks for trying them!
Even as a non-vegan (and non-vegetarian…sorry!!) I love your recipes!!! Keep up the great work 🙂
Ooh French toast is so good and it’s one of those things I never think to make for myself until I see a post like this reminding me of how good it is!
My “fast food” is running into a grocery store and picking up a piece of fruit or two, a water, and a little bag of raw almonds from the bins. I wash the fruit in the bathroom after purchasing and I’m in and out in less than 3 minute thanks to those self check out lines!
Up until the last couple of years, my kids (ages 8-10) didn’t even know what McDonalds was. We don’t do fast food often either, even though sometimes, as a crazy busy mom, I wish we would. Still, it’s hard to justify it when I know I can make a tastier, healthier, cheaper meal at home. The French toast sticks sound good. Maybe I’ll give them a try tomorrow. There’s a banana on my counter and Ezekiel bread in my freezer….
I made this yesterday using my last banana, and I’m making it again today using pumpkin. I added a couple tbs. of turbinado to the batter (tbs. because I’m tripling the recipe), just because plain pumpkin is not as sweet as banana or pineapple. Also, used some pumpkin pie spice to replace part of the cinnamon. Delicious! It’s like pumpkin pie batter.
I love your idea… Might have to try it tomorrow!
I didn’t see this post in time for breakfast, so I made them for lunch instead! I loved ’em, and my little one did too. After she ate all of hers, she wanted to steal mine as well. I ended up having to make another batch! Thank goodness they were so easy to make :). And very kid friendly!
Teenager friendly too! 🙂
Ohh I love french toast!! I’m a little picky though when I get it out because I hate it when it’s eggy and only like it cooked all the way through! I love the idea of doing french toast sticks though! It’s been years since I’ve had something like that!
growing up we ate fast food a couple of times a week. i stopped eating fast food several years ago and when i try to eat it like it did a couple of weeks ago i throw up a few min after eating it. my body just rejects it, which is good.