Cap’n Crunch French Toast

6 adults, 4 dogs and 1 child spent the night at my parent’s house Christmas Eve. It’s so fun to wake up Christmas morning together to eat breakfast and open stockings and gifts. My Mom and Dad surprised us with a new twist on our Christmas morning breakfast. We usually have giant cinnamon rolls – but this year they decided to make Cap’n Crunch French Toast – featured on the comfort food episode of Guy Fieri’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. The French toast is served at The Blue Moon Cafe in Baltimore, MD.

I am here to say that it’s the most incredible French Toast I’ve ever had. No joke, I ate two monster pieces and probably could have had a third, had it not been for the fruit bowl and bacon.

The Ingredients – (4 Servings)
3/4 Cup Heavy Cream
3 Large Eggs – Lightly Beaten
2 Tablespoons Sugar
1 Teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
3 Cups Cap’n Crunch Cereal
8 -10 slices Texas Toast style bread – My Dad used Sara Lee Texas Toast Enriched Bread – Restaurant Style
Butter for Cooking

Directions:

• In large bowl, mix together heavy cream, eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Whisk until ingredients are well combined.
• Crush cereal by placing in plastic bag and rolling over it with a rolling pin. Once it resembles cracker meal, transfer to a pie plate or shallow dish. My Mom started with a rolling pin and ended up switching to a meat mallet and that worked better.
• Moisten a couple pieces of the bread in the cream mixture until soft but not completely soaked. Allow excess liquid to drip off bread, then press into the cereal crumbs to coat evenly. Set on a sheet pan or onto the griddle and repeat with remaining slices.
• Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium heat. Adding butter as needed, cook bread on both sides until it caramelizes, about 6 to 8 minutes total.

We just had our French Toast with butter and maple syrup, but the show/recipe suggests whipped cream and berries. I liked it just the way we had it.

The table was set, our stockings were at each of our place settings and we dove right in. I will DEFINITELY be making this recipe over and over. I usually find Texas toast to be too huge and some french toast to be entirely too sweet, but this was perfect. I think we now have a new Christmas morning breakfast tradition. Thanks Mom and Dad for surprising us!