The Perfect French Toast

On this beautiful Sunday morning my little cherubs wanted french toast and sausage for breakfast. Well, technically The Sponge actually wanted french toast sticks like she gets at the sitter's before school, but I make mine I don't buy them. I like french toast, but I hate making them because of the yucky, gloppy egg white factor. You know, the part that doesn't come apart it just moves around your dish like slime and cooks onto your french toast like a fried egg. It grosses me out! So this morning it hit me, make it in the blender.

DUH!

 

I always add cinnamon to my recipe and it usually tends to clump so this problem would be solved as well. Why had it taken me so long to figure this out? So, this morning we had perfect french toast. :)

Perfectly blended french toast goodness!

I use my pizza cutter to easily make sticks.
Hulk loves Spiderman!

My kids like to dunk everything so instead of drizzling the maple syrup
over the french toast I put the syrup into silicon cupcake liners
that my mother-in-law gave me. (Thanks Lisa!)

This is the recipe that I used today. It made 7 wide loaf pieces of french toast. (There were leftovers for a quick before school breakfast later on this week for Hulk). I'm sure if you used the regular sized bread it would easily make 10.

4 large eggs (I use Eggland's Best...yes, I really do think they taste better)
1/4 cup skim milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. cinnamon
7-10 slices of bread (depending on the size of your slices)
Real Maple Syrup - no imitations please! (optional)

Put all of the ingredients into the blender and blend on low a few seconds just until all of the ingredients are fully blended and pour into pie dish (or other shallow dish). If you have a fluffier, less dense bread then your bread will only need a quick dunk into the eggs, otherwise let them set in the mixture for a few seconds to soak up the cinnamon-y goodness. Cook over medium heat until beautifully golden brown on each side.

Whenever I make french toast I always pull out the family-sized griddle that we got as a wedding gift. You can make them all in one or two batches this way.

Enjoy!