Better Homes & Gardens VANILLA FRENCH TOAST

Better Homes & Garden

Looks delish doesn't it?
 I want to share with you a recipe for vanilla french toast that I found in Better Homes & Garden magazine a couple weeks ago.  It's so good, you must cook this one morning for your sweetie's.

Here's what you'll need:

  4 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup half & half {or milk}
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
8 slices of bread {I used an entire day old french loaf}
Butter & Canola oil
Syrup

First, I slice up the french loaf with my electric knife.  This will give you about 25 thin slices.  {This is a great recipe for sleepover nights because it makes a TON!}

I use our electric griddle {cannot live without this marvelous gadget in the kitchen!} it cooks like ten slices all at once!
So get out your griddle {if you have one} and then put about 3 small slices of butter on it with a teeny tiny bit of canola oil.  Let this warm up a bit.  Like this...
    

Once it starts to melt, move it all around with your spatula and turn your heat down to about 275.


Grab a large bowl, all your ingredients and start with your eggs so you can give em a quick stir before adding everything else.  I just go down the list, toss it in the bowl, give it one more quick stir and begin to dip my bread.

Now just keep dunking your bread until you fill up your griddle.

And if it's a cold morning like it is here...then load up the fire place.

I even had enough time to sweep off the back porch while my toast was finishing up on the griddle.

By this time, the aroma of the vanilla french toast & bacon fills the air and helps to draw all those kiddo's down for breakfast.  A warm fire doesn't hurt either!  


Hope you'll give this a try!  I'm not ready for the weekend to be over just yet.  Are you?