French Toast with Maple Pecan Clusters Crunch
Easy and delicious, this French Toast recipe will quickly become a favorite!
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 6 mins
- Total Time: 16 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: French
Ingredients
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- 2 cups Trader Joe’s Maple Pecan Clusters Crunch cereal or a similar type of cereal
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 8 slices of dense, thickly sliced bread (3/4 inch slices) such as Challah, Brioche, French or Sourdough
- Non-stick cooking spray or butter
- Maple syrup (for serving)
- Mixed berries (for serving)
- Butter (for serving)
- 1 cup of pecan halves, lightly toasted (for serving)
Instructions
- If you haven’t chosen bread that is pre-sliced, slice your bread into 3/4 inch thick slices and set aside.
- Place Maple Pecan Clusters Crunch cereal in a Ziploc bag and seal.
- Using your hands, roll up the bag to crush the clusters (don’t pulverize them; you want some of the chunky clusters!).
- Pour clusters into a shallow baking dish and set aside.
- Break 4 eggs into a mixing bowl.
- Add milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, sugar and salt and whisk to combine.
- Pour egg mixture into another shallow baking dish and set it beside the baking dish with the clusters.
- Dip each slice of bread in egg mixture and turn to coat both sides.
- Dredge each slice of egg bread into crushed cereal and turn to coat both sides.
- Set finished bread on a baking dish until all slices are dipped and dredged.
- In a small dry skillet, toast pecans for a few minutes, stirring occasionally; set aside.
- Spray a non-stick griddle or skillet with non-stick cooking spray or add butter to griddle.
- Heat non-stick griddle or skillet over medium heat.
- Add prepared French Toast and cook over medium 2 to 3 minutes.
- Once lightly browned, turn over and cook other side for another 2 to 3 minutes.
- Remove from griddle and serve with butter, maple syrup, more crushed cereal, toasted pecans and mixed berries.
