Super easy French Toast- for the picky eater 🍴
We love breakfast around here. There are just so many ways to cook eggs! Pastured eggs are a nutritional powerhouse, and start your day off on the right foot, keeping you full until lunchtime. But, if you’re like me, the morning is busy and sometimes a bit chaotic, and finding time to actually cook breakfast that the kids will eat can be difficult.
This is one of our kids’ favorite ways to eat eggs. The recipe is simple enough that a child with good stove skills can make it on their own. Quick and easy, starting with real food ingredients, and on your plate in under 15 minutes. Freeze on a cookie sheet, then pop into a freezer bag for a quick meal later on in the week.
Most French Toast recipes include a lot of sugar. I don’t know about you, but putting that much straight-up sugar into my kids at breakfast time has consequences that I don’t want to deal with. So, this recipe has no added sugar. Put sweet stuff on top, if you’d like.
This recipe makes two slices of French Toast, simply double, triple, or more to serve more or hungrier people. Keep warm in the oven at 250° while frying up the rest, so that everyone can eat together.
Super easy French Toast recipe
2 pastured chicken eggs or 1 pastured duck egg
1 tablespoon butter for melting in the pan you’ll cook in
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons milk
dash salt
2 slices bread
Whisk the eggs in a bowl. Add the vanilla, milk, and a dash of salt. Whisk it all together until combined.
Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat. While the butter is melting and the pan is heating, place the first piece of bread in the egg mixture. Let it soak in for about a minute. Turn the bread over and let it soak up all the nutrient dense eggy goodness that it can- another minute or so.
Place the egg-soaked bread in the frying pan. Cook until lightly brown- lift a corner with a spatula to see where you’re at. When it looks good, flip, and brown the other side. Cook the other slice of bread the same way. Keep the already cooked French Toast warm in the oven at 250° while more are cooking.
Top with whatever you’d like- some of our favorites are local honey, our elderberry preserves or maple syrup. Optional- sift a dusting of powdered sugar on top for a restaurant appearance.
Optional: add in to egg mixture either of the following:
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Click here to reserve some of our eggs!
Thanks for stopping by!
French Toast
Ingredients
- 2 pastured eggs 1 duck egg or 2 chicken eggs
- 1 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 tablespoon milk
- 2 slices bread
- 1 dash salt
Instructions
- Whisk the eggs in a bowl. Add the vanilla, milk, and a dash salt. Whisk together.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan over medium heat. While this is going on, place the first piece of bread in the egg mixture. Let it soak in for a minute.
- Turn the bread over and let it soak up all the nutrient dense eggy goodness that it can- another minute or so.
- Place egg-soaked bread in the frying pan. Cook until lightly brown- lift a corner with a spatula to see where you're at. Flip, and brown the other side. Cook the other slice of bread the same way. Keep cooked French Toast warm in the oven at 250° while more are cooking.
- Top with whatever you'd like- some of our favorites are local honey, our elderberry preserves or maple syrup. Optional- sift a dusting of powdered sugar on top for a restaurant appearance.
- Optional: add in to egg mixture either of the following: 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon or 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- Freeze for later! Make extra, set them on a cookie sheet in the freezer. Take them out after an hour or so, and place in a freezer bag, back into the freezer. Now you have breakfast for days!