Recipe: Coconut French Toast

{image credit: my bro-in-law Mark, thank you!}

These little babies are heavenly. If you are looking for a recipe this weekend to impress your company..this is the one for you. Seriously, there are no words that can describe how delicious these are.  Once when I was traveling, I stopped at a local breakfast cafe where they offered something like this on the menu. I was intrigued and tried it. That was the first day of my love affair with coconut french toast.

After scouring the internet for recipes, I ended up tweaking a recipe I found on Our Best Bites.  After a few trials I perfected it..and just about everyone in our family LOVES them!!

Coconut French Toast:

Here are the Ingredients:
2 eggs, beaten
2 ½ Tbsp. sugar
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. coconut extract
2 c. milk
1 c. flour
2 ½ tsp. baking powder
Texas- style toast (normal works but Texas is better) cut in half diagonally
1 Cup Shredded Coconut
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut
vegetable oil

Directions: In a large skillet or frying pan heat about 1/4 inch of vegetable oil over medium heat. (if you add a drop of water it should sizzle, then its ready).

Mix your beaten eggs, sugar, salt, coconut extract, milk, flour, baking powder and $1/4 cup of the unsweetened coconut together in a pie pan or bowl.    On a separate plate or pie plate add the sweetened and unsweetened coconut, mix it together.

Quickly dip your bread on both sides in the egg/flour mixture. Then dip both sides in coconut. Add to skillet. Cook until it’s golden brown on both sides (probably around 1-2 minutes each side). You will want to watch these closely so they do not burn. When they are done, just remove them from the oil and place on a paper towel.

Add butter + syrup or powdered sugar and cool whip! Golly, these are just perfect. Slightly crispy, yet soft inside and that coconut flavor is amazing!!

About Karrie

Food is my love language. But so is saving money. So I like to combine the two a lot and make thrifty make ahead and freeze meals to save time. Because life is busy, and freezer meals can come to the rescue for all of us. And yes, they actually CAN taste good. Read more...