French Toast Sticks
One of our missions at weelicious is to offer recipes the entire family can enjoy together. A few simple alterations to most any dish suited for mommy and daddy, can make it totally attractive to kids. Take these French Toast Sticks, for example. It’s not that I couldn’t just hand Chloe, my 15 month old, an entire piece of french toast and have her eat it — she’s actually such an adventurous eater right now, she’ll hoover just about anything — but tailoring a breakfast food my husband and I normally eat with a knife and fork so it’s in a fun and appealing kid friendly shape, allows everyone in our family to enjoy the same meal in our own way. These little french toast “fingers” are not only delicious, they’re also the perfect size for little hands to hold. Kenya loves dipping them into raspberr-wee sauce, Chloe loves that she can have some independence eating by herself without us cutting her food into little pieces first and I love that you get triple the crusty edges (my favorite part) for each piece of cooked toast since you cut each piece of bread into three sticks . There’s truly nothing better than a recipe that fulfills everyone’s needs!
French Toast Sticks (Makes 15 Sticks)
2 Eggs
1/2 Cup Whole Milk , Rice or Almond
1/2 Tsp Cinnamon
2 Tsp Honey
Pinch of Salt
5 Slices of Bread, trim edges and cut into 1 inch sticks
1 Tbsp Butter
1. In a shallow bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, cinnamon, honey and salt until combined.
2. Dip each bread stick in the egg mixture until each side is coated with the mixture.
3. Heat a saute pan or griddle over medium heat with 1 tbsp of butter and cook for 3 minutes on each side until golden and cooked through.
4. Serve with honey, maple syrup, or Raspberr-Wee Sauce.
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any luck with making these ahead and freezing them? Just trying to get weekday recipes that I can freeze =)
Thanks!
Yes they are perfect for freezing!
Do you freeze before or after cooking?
after!
After cooking.
Try it with whole wheat cinnamon bread…
What kind of bread do you normally eat?
Whole wheat and spelt tortillas! they are so yum!
This recipe looks brilliant and easy to make. I think I have all the ingredients at my home today. I will surely try it tonight!!!
We just made these and they were yummy!!
WOW! Great recipe! My kids ate every last bite. SO yummy!
I’ve noticed a couple of Weelicious recipes, like this one, that include honey. My daughter is 15 months old and I would love to make these for her. However, I remember reading somewhere that babies under a certain age shouldn’t eat honey. Do you know what age that is?
I seem to remember that it was 1 and under. I waited with my little one until she was almost 18 months before I gave her honey just to be on the safe side.
Children under one shouldn’t have honey (or other syrups) because of the risk of botulism spores. One is a pretty generous guideline, I looked it up and the oldest reported age of a child with botulism from honey was 8 months.
They shouldn’t have raw honey until 1 year old, but if it’s cooked like in this recipe, it’s ok. The heat kills the bacteria that could possibly be in the honey. This is what my doctor told us at our 6 month well baby visit.
that’s not what i’ve heard… my understanding is that cooking actually DOES NOT kill the spores, so to be on the safe side, i have kept my son away from all honey for his first year.
I was given honey when I was under 18 months, and we are pretty sure why ended up getting severe arthritis. I waited until my kids were 21 months. Just my personal opinion.
My 12 1/2 month old twins enjoyed them too. I was trying to think of things to do with the edges of the bread. Anyone have any ideas. I’m going to make whole wheat bread crumbs for future use.
I saved the edges to make croutons!
Made these this morning, yummy!!
Made these this morning and your rasberr-wee sauce. So delicious, my little one was sucking the sauce off the French toast. We had to ignore her to get her to eat the french toast, which is common, but daddy and I loved it too. Thanks for the great recipes that work for everyone!
Made these AND pizza rolls on Saturday – yummmm! My daughter ate both like there was no tomorrow!
Thanks for yet another great recipe! I love the fact that you can make these ahead and freeze them.
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I made these using Texas Toast instead of regular bread. My kids thought they were delicious. I would suggest adding a little more milk because I ran out with a few more sticks to go.
Just curious if there is a reason that soy milk is not listed as an alernative to cow’s/rice/almond — does soy milk not work well with this recipe? I’m dying to try it, my kids would love this, but we only use soy milk due to allergies.
No reason at all, the milk listed is what we have normally in the house. You can use soy milk
Made these this morning, and they were AWESOME!!
* Oh and I forgot to mention I used agave nectar instead of Honey b/c that’s all I had… amazing!
My 2 year old son is the pickiest eater ever; the only foods he’ll eat are bread and cheese. It’s so frustrating! So today after he refused scrambled eggs for breakfast, I made the French Toast Sticks and added a touch of powdered sugar on top to entice him….He loved it! Gobbled up 8 sticks in record time! Thank you!
Hi Catherine, thank you for another great recipe. I noticed you said to use a sauté or griddle pan. I don’t own any non-stick pans in my house, due to the carcinogens in the coating. Is there a line of non-stick pans you recommend and have researched, which are not harmful? Thank you!
This is a must make for my nephew the next time he visits!
I love these and I also rolled them in ground flax and sprinkled wheat germ on top for some added crunch! Thanks again for such a great resource – you are truly changing many people’s lives a “wee bit” at a time:)
What a great recipe! How important is it to use whole milk? My toddler doesn’t drink it anymore and we don’t buy it. Thanks!
Whole milk is natural source of calcium which is important for your toddlers bones, I still give my kids whole milk and when I don’t, i give them rice milk
Catherine, I made these last night for “breakfast for dinner” with vanilla soy milk and whole wheat bread, served with scrambled eggs and fruit. Super quick and delicious dinner. Thanks for another great idea!
I’ve made a recipe very similar to this multiple times but I bake them all on a cookie sheet at once instead of using a skillet on the stove top. Soooo much easier!! 350 for 25 min. and turn them once half way through.
thank you!!! no idea you could bake them! my son can only have baked egg. I’ll be making these tomorrow:)
If you freeze these, how do you heat up the defrosted ones? I’m afraid the microwave will make them soggy.
I’d suggest a toaster oven if you have one, or regular oven.
Just made these with an almost-week-old loaf of homemade honey/whole wheat bread. It made my near-stale bread divine! Ahhhh … one more reason to bake regularly. Especially since our 2-year-old gobbled them up!
I made these today for the kids and they loved them. My son asked for more!
I freeze these whole and pop in the toaster for a quick breakfast! I cut into sticks after toasting–not quite as good as freshly made but still yummy and better than store bought!
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for french toast sticks recipe, any other alternative(s) for cinnamon and honey?
You could use Agave or Sugar in place of the Honey. If you still want a sweet spice flavor, but don’t want to use cinnamon you could try nutmeg instead. Cloves would be yummy, too, but they’re a bit more powerful so use less.