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 ;).
Love how easy this is! Yum!
McDonalds apple pies include pork biproducts. yuck.
Oh lol I got them a lot when I was little (not yet a vegetarian). 🙂
oh i know… i used to love them but i dont eat pork based on religion.. i was reading an article called “the places you would least expect to find meat” and those pies were one of them. Lays regular chips also have beef biproducts.. I dont understand how companies can get away with it!
Looks delicious! I don’t really eat fast food, but I would if it was made like this 🙂
By the way- I made your no guilt cookies on the weekend and they were scrumptious. Thanks for the recipe!
Thank YOU for trying them! 🙂
so darn cute Katie! I just love french toast. i hardly ever eat fast food, but those fast food french toast sticks sure are delicious! and so glad you recreated them to show us that they can easily be recreated at home. 🙂
Cinnamon raisin bread? You must have been listening when I said that was my favorite when I commented on one of your last posts! 😉
Cinnamon raisin bread beats regular any day!
Yum yum yum! And yum about a million times more. This made a great snack :).
Reminded me of the ones at Burger King, but even better than I remember!
What a great breakfast or snack idea here. I am all about portable foods. I LOVE FRENCH TOAST too, how did you know?
Me too, only liked fast foods for the shake and fries or pie, never the nasty meat(or whatever it really is!). 🙂
have a great day.
YUMMM!!! I love the use of banana in this recipe and I’m sure it adds great sweetness and flavor as well. I eat fast food probably once every 3 or 4 months and when I do it’s a salad and shake (healthy combo, right)? 🙂
I love french toast so much but I’ve stopped eating eggs and dairy. So when I saw this post this morning I was so excited! I made it and it was so yummy! I’ll definitely eat it again, next time I’ll make some cinnamon raisin bread to make it even better!
My sister just made the pb bread- as in right now. Was it supposed to be dough like? The directions say that the batter should be poured, but it came out as a dough, and a little salty too? Quite confused!
Hi there! As someone who made this recipe already I can answer that mine definitely “poured” didn’t come out as dough. I made it true to recipe, using white sugar. Was there any modifications your sister tried?
As for the salty. I almost hesitate to write this because I absolutely don’t mean to be rude or anything but is there ANY chance you used baking soda rather than baking powder. And yes, I ask from experience on that accidental swap. 🙂
How did it come out after being baked?
For sweetener, I think she used honey. She didn’t make any modifications to the original recipe. The end result was undercooked (after an hour of baking !), which is unusual as our oven usually takes less time than is called for. Well here’s the thing, I told her it had a weird taste and smell. Not bad, just pungent. She got this funny look on her face and realized she had used cumin instead of cinnamon! 🙂 But that doesn’t explain the saltiness- I’ll ask her about the soda/powder swap.
And you weren’t rude at all, thank you very much for your help! 🙂
Sarah,
Honey is a liquid sweetener and it isn’t listed as an option in the ingredients :(. That would probably be why your bread wouldn’t cook.
Woops! We’re gonna try it again today (the right way!) and I’ll report back 🙂 I’m not too keen on using sugar because my brother is on a strict gluten/dairy/sugar free diet, and I don’t have any of the other sweetners listed. Any suggestions?
p.s.- please keep the gluten free recipes coming! I have two family members who are on the aforementioned diet. Mainly my little brother has a speech problem and his doctor said removing these toxins would help. So your recipes are very much appreciated 🙂 Thanks again!
Sarah! One more thought.
I was “researching” the earth balance coconut peanut butter and it had agave in it like a lot of their blends. As annoying as I find sweetened peanut butter, I wonder if it might be the answer to what you need? I know some sugar-free people still do the agave (not sure on him) but perhaps if you go that direction you won’t have to add sugar to the bread?
PS. If I had this peanut butter in my possession right now I would probably test this theory for you. 🙂
Oh gosh! I just totally laughed about the cumin! I am laughing with you, not at you. :):):) I have done some amazing “mistakes” in baking.
Have fun trying again today! I know some people significantly cut out the sugar the recipe called for. I didn’t because it was going for public consumption and I didn’t have time to play with it, but you could try cutting the sugar and seeing what happens? I just would taste the batter before baking. It is a great recipe and one that I will be trying again and again and again.
I was even thinking last night…I wonder if it could be made into french toast. 🙂 You make me want to play with recipe more. But I have to stay on task for my midterm. Good luck with it!
Oh Samantha you are super sweet! thanks for your suggestions- the pb one is a great idea! And my mom is gonna try it for french toast for breakfast tomorrow! Great minds think alike 🙂
And yeah, yesterday was a hilarious kitchen day for us. My mom, looking to thicken something, used powdered sugar instead of arrowroot- and it was for noodle casserole! 🙂
Thanks again!
I love that you guys are going to try the french toast from this bread. I can’t wait to hear how it goes.
OK, the powdered sugar/arrowroot mix up is really funny. You guys were totally having a day for sure. 🙂
Ironically, before this recipe was published, my mum actually made almost the exact French Toast recipe – with the addition of flaxseed and chia seeds – for breakfast this morning!
Even though I love the banana flavor that the bread absorbs, have you found the bread to be quite flimsy and soggy, even after it’s done? This is quite cumbersome, especially when you’re trying to flip each slice on the hot griddle! 🙁
Hmmm… I actually like soggy bread. I’m strange.
But Ezekiel bread is naturally very dry. That’s one of the reasons I like it in French toast… to get it soggier! 😉
Mine was a little soggy, so I cooked it on low for a while longer until the outside was no longer wet. It was still a little flimsy so I stuck it in the toaster and that helped. Still so yummy! 🙂
I’m with you on fast-food places, Katie! Just knowing what is in the burgers and stuff makes me sick!
In the past I’d take a Frosty over a burger or chicken strips! I’d have a severe stomach ache though! (Sugar can really get to me – bad!)
The only thing I like at McDonald’s is their Strawberry-Banana smoothie. But I’m afraid to know what’s in it!
Your french toast sounds SO good! And Ezekiel cinnamon-raisin bread probably makes it even better!
The only french toast I’ve ever had was a baked kind that was really sweet (icky) and quite soggy. I’ll definitely try yours!
Oh, and I tried your Super-Thick Strawberry Milkshake today. It was good! Thick and creamy – just how I like smoothies & milkshakes!
So glad you liked it! 🙂 🙂
Hey, I work at Taco Bell! (the irony of being a vegan fast food manager, lol) but if for some reason you come to little ol’ Idaho, I can hook you up 🙂 if only for the sake of nostalgia towards your childhood, haha 😉
Haha ok! Save some cinnamon twists for me… I haven’t had them in a long time! Of course, I used to dip them in the nacho sauce. Can’t do that anymore! 😉
I LOVE that you are a manage even. That is awesome.
In highschool I worked at MacDonalds! And I was already total vegetarian by then and hadn’t even had most of the stuff that MacDonalds served. There wasn’t a lot of job options where I grew up. 🙂
I recently just started eating french toast more (I always forget about it!) and love it! I am not vegan but I LOVE this idea for vegan french toast! I am definately going to give it a try. I love all things banana, but your substitutions sound like amazing ideas as well. Might have to try a few different variations. Not to mention it would be awesome to be able to pour the remaining batter over top!
As for fast food, I’ve never had a burger from a fast-food place in my life. Even when I was little! They just never appealed to me! I don’t eat fast-food now… I don’t like it and it’s hard when most fast-food chains (at least in my area) are completely meat based. It doesn’t bother me at all though because I’d much rather prepare my own meals! Much healthier anyway 🙂
I eat fast food once every few months when I really have no idea what else I can eat but I am not a big fan.
I don’t like the process of frying so I haven’t made French toast for years although I love it. Do you think it will still be good if I put the slices in the oven toaster instead?
It sounds like a good idea. You never know unless you try, right? 🙂
I have never eaten a meal from Burger King/Mcdonald’s etc. It doesn’t look like food to me. Love these French toast sticks! Cutting them up like that makes them look so cute 🙂 Will be making them for a treat soon 🙂