Tag: breakfast

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Sometimes I’m in need of quick grab and go breakfasts or snacks, as well as my husband who leaves for work So. Dang. Early.  These little muffins are the best!  They’re delicious and when you pop them in the microwave for like 10 seconds to…

Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread

Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread

Ever since my husband tasted monkey bread for the first time it was game over.  He loves the stuff.  So much.  I made this Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread for Christmas brunch and he completely ignored the other food and just devoured the monkey bread.  Silly…

Banana Pancakes

Banana Pancakes

I’m a pancake lover, which I’m sure is obvious by the number of pancake recipes on the site.  No better breakfast.  I’ll also eat a stack any other meal of the day.  I love them!

My little guy loves bananas, so naturally a banana pancake recipe was needed.  I swear this kid is so spoiled when it comes to his breakfasts.  He eats like a champion and also gets sick of things, so I have to keep it fresh switch it up every once in a while.  And since we eat the same thing for breakfast majority of the time, I don’t mind that at all. 

These banana pancakes are one of his favorites, and I have to say I love them as well.  They’re just the right amount of banana-y and sweet.

Banana Pancakes

  • Servings: about 8-4” pancakes
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Ingredients

  • 1 ripe banana, mashed
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • ¾ – 1 cup milk of choice
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 1 cup almond flour
  • 1 cup oat flour
  • 1 teaspoon arrowroot powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 teaspoon coconut oil

 

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl mix wet ingredient together – banana, vanilla, milk, and maple syrup, until well combined.
  2. In a medium bowl combine flours, arrowroot powder, baking powder, and salt and whisk to combine.
  3. Add the dry ingredients into the wet and stir just enough to combine. Add additional milk if batter is too thick.
  4. In a large cast iron griddle, pan heat 1 teaspoon coconut oil over medium-high until hot but not smoking. Pour or scoop about ¼ cup of batter onto griddle for each pancake.  Wait until the ends start to bubble, about 3 minutes, then flip and cook additional 1-3 minutes.

Apple Cider Donut Holes

Apple Cider Donut Holes

Every year when we go to Apple Hill, we stop at a specific farm for apple cider donuts.  They are the best on the whole hill, and the line proves just that.  It’s usually a 45-minute wait minimum.  It’s ridiculous, but also completely worth it…

Blender Mancakes

Blender Mancakes

What’s better than waking up on a weekend to the smell of pancakes, sausage, and bacon cooking?  It fills the whole house and somehow everyone seems to make their way out of their beds and into the kitchen awake and ready to start their day…with…

Banana Bread French Toast Bake

Banana Bread French Toast Bake

French toast.  Who doesn’t love french toast?  It’s freaking delicious people!  It can make everything better, or for me at least.  In a bad mood?  Have some french toast.  Stressed?  Shove french toast in your mouth.  All better!  See what I mean?

This Banana Bread French Toast Bake takes french toast to the best level it could possibly reach.  Seriously.  It not only packs on the flavor, but it also saves you so much time in the kitchen from coating and flipping each slice.  Your result from baking is moist, fluffy, sweet, the most delicious french toast you have ever eaten.  The best part is it’s so easy to make.  The hardest part is not eating all of the banana bread that you let sit out for a few days before creating this beauty.  Dead serious, it took everything in my power.  Plus swatting my husband’s hands away from picking at it every single time he was in the kitchen.  I mean, basically we’re lucky this recipe was created.  It has been in the works for months, but we’ve never made to this far until the glorious morning that we actually did.  Needless to say, our breakfast game has been changed forever.

The only thing you’ll have to prepare ahead of time is the banana bread if you’re making your own.  I definitely recommend that you do because not only is it super easy, but it’s also so delicious AND you’ll be able to make a double batch so you can just have some banana bread to eat and keep your and your family’s hands off of the goods for the toast.  This is key to making it to step two of this french toast process.

I tend to have ripe bananas stored in the freezer often, so I’m ready to go for crucial times like this.  If you don’t, grocery stores often have ripe bananas that you can buy for a fraction of the cost.  When you see them, purchase those bad boys, peel and store in sets of three in a freezer safe container.  Trust me when I say you won’t regret it.

Ok great, now let’s get to this glorious french toast!

Banana Bread French Toast Bake

  • Servings: 6-8
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Ingredients

Banana Bread

  • 3 ripe bananas
  • 3 eggs
  • ¼ cup maple syrup, agave, or honey
  • ¼ cup avocado oil, or melted coconut oil
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 3 cups almond flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon pink Himalayan salt

French Toast

  • 1 loaf of banana bread, stale and toasted, cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 cups almond milk
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • ½ cup Coconut Milk Caramel Sauce, plus more for garnish
  • 2 bananas, sliced
  • ¼ cup grass-fed butter, optional but adds a richer taste

Optional Topping

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350⁰ F. Grease a loaf pan and line with parchment (this will also help lift the loaf from the pan).
  2. In a large bowl mash the 3 ripe bananas. Add the eggs, sweetener, oil, and vanilla.  Mix until combined.
  3. Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Mix until combined. 
  4. Pour batter into the loaf pan and bake for 35-40 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes.  Remove loaf from pan and cool completely on wire rack.
  5. Slice bread into 1-inch slices and let sit on wire rack for 2-3 days or until stale. You can also toast each slice to ensure it’s “crusty” and won’t become mushy once baked.
  6. Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish. Slice bread into 1-inch cubes and spread in a single layer in baking dish.
  7. In a medium bowl whisk together eggs, milk, vanilla, and cinnamon. Pour over banana bread in baking dish.  Evenly distribute 2 of the sliced bananas throughout the mixture.  Drizzle Coconut Milk Caramel Sauce over top.  Press the bread mixture into the liquid to coat and let mixture sit in fridge for 30 minutes.
  8. Preheat oven to 350⁰ F. Bake french toast for 20-25 mins.  Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes.
  9. If making the topping, heat 1 tablespoon coconut oil in small pan over medium heat until hot but not smoking. Add in crushed pecans and 2 sliced bananas.  Cook for 2-3 minutes or until you can smell the pecans.  Add in Coconut Milk Caramel Sauce and cook, gently stirring, for an additional 1-2 minutes.