Since I’m in San Antonio I wanted to share a post from my archives. This is Waffle French Toast and there is a few tasty flavored butter recipes at the bottom. Originally posted January 2009. Enjoy!

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Ever since I bought my waffle iron a few months ago I have often wondered what else I could make on a waffle iron.  I saw waffle french toast on The Early Show on CBS it was a segment about breakfast classics with a new spin.  You can imagine my excitement!  I said I much try this!  So today was the day to have waffle french toast and I loved it!  Tyler and Kameron enjoyed breakfast, Alyssa….well she doesn’t like change, she was a little upset that it wasn’t a true waffle and she was mad because it wasn’t traditional french toast but she ate it anyway with snow…powdered sugar!  Shaun was at work so he didn’t get to have any.  I didn’t use the recipe that was on The Early Show only used the cooking method.  Also on The Early Show was flavored butter even though I did not make it I wanted to share with you because the recipes sound really good.  I would have made the butter but I didn’t have any jam or preserves.  The recipes for the butter is below the french toast recipe.   If you try it let me know I would love to know how it taste.  Enjoy your breakfast!

Ingredients
Waffle French Toast
6 large eggs
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoon melted butter
10 slices of your favorite bread (bread should be thick slices about 1 1/4 inch)

Directions
1.Preheat a waffle maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Spray the surface with nonstick cooking spray.
2.  In a bowl, using a handheld whisk, beat the eggs until frothy. Add the milk, butter, vanilla, pumpkin pie spice and sugar whisk until blended.
3.  Dip 1 bread slice into the egg mixture and soak, turning once, 30 seconds per side. Place the bread on the preheated waffle maker, close the lid and cook according to the manufacturer’s instructions until golden brown and crisp, about 4 minutes. Keep warm while cooking the remaining bread.
4.  Serve the French toast warm with syrup.

Flavored Butter
Orange butter:
8 Tbs. (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tsp. confectioners’ sugar
2 Tbs. orange marmalade
Zest of 1 orange

Strawberry butter:
8 Tbs. (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tsp. confectioners’ sugar
2 Tbs. strawberry jam

Mixed Berry butter:
8 Tbs. (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tsp. confectioners’ sugar
2 Tbs. mixed berry preserves

To prepare each type of flavored butter: In a bowl, using a handheld mixer, beat the butter on medium speed until soft and creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and beat until combined, about 1 minute.

Transfer the flavored butter to a butter dish or small bowl and serve immediately, or cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Makes about 1/2 cup.

Waffle French Toast

If you need a really quick and easy meal this one is for you. A slider is a mini-hambuger that is all, nothing fancy. We make sliders a lot at my house. The kids love how small they are and I love how easy they are. Normally when I make sliders I form them into individual patties and cook them on the stove top. But when I was searching the Food Blog search engine I found this recipe for White Castle Sliders from Full Bellies, Happy Kids. I must confess I have never has a White Castle slider, mainly because there are not any White Castles where I live. I can’t tell you if this recipe is just like White Castle but I can tell you why I had to try it. The main reason for trying it was because the meat was cooked in one pan and in one big patty, talk about easy right. If you have kids or just love quick easy meals you must give this a try.

Next week is Spring Break for us.  We are heading to San Antonio, we haven’t had a family vacation in two years.  We have a busy week planned.  We are going to the Alamo, Fiesta Texas, visit family and more site seeing.  Our last trip was Disney World and Kameron was only three months, we went to Florida for my cousins wedding, then we all went to Disney World.  We are looking forward to our trip, the kids are excited and I’m glad to be getting out of the house for a little while.  The weather is suppose to be really nice so I need to go get a pedicure so I can wear my cute sandals and flip flops.   I’m to get a pedi I will see you soon!

Ingredients
1/2 cup dried onion flakes
2 pounds ground chuck
1/2 t. seasoned salt
6 slices of your favorite cheese. I used cheddar and pepper jack.
24 small slider rolls- I used Pepperridge Farm Sliders
Toppings, pickles, lettuce, tomato. Typical hamburger stuff

Directions
1. Evenly spread the onions on the bottom of a 9×13 inch baking dish.
2. Gently press the ground beef on top of the onion flakes. Press evenly making one patty.
3. Sprinkle with season salt.
4. Bake at 400 for 20 minutes.
5. After 20 minutes blot the grease from the top using paper towels. Top with cheese slices and return to oven until cheese is melted, about 2 minutes.
6. Cut into 24 patties and make a slider with your favorite toppings.

Do you ever eat breakfast for dinner? We do all the time, mainly when the hubby is working nights; he thinks its weird eat breakfast for dinner. We will eat pancakes, waffles, eggs and bacon you name it, and we will eat for dinner. The kids love it! I made breakfast pizza one night. This was first I made it; it was fun and easy. The kids helped with the pizza dough and had a blast. There are only four ingredients for this recipe, so it made for a quick breakfast or dinner in our case.

Ingredients
1 can of pizza dough (I used Pillsbury thin crust)
4 eggs
4 strips of bacon (use could use breakfast sausage also)
4 tablespoons butter (melted)
salt and pepper to taste

1. Cut dough into 5 inch circles, I was able to get 4 individual pizzas. I used a bowl turned upside down to cut the dough.
2. Brush each pizza with melted butter.
3. Prepare pizza dough according to package.
4. Cook bacon on stove top while pizza dough is cooking.
5. Half way through the dough cooking crack one egg onto each pizza and season with salt and pepper.
6. Continue cooking until the crust is golden brown and the egg is cooked to your liking.
7. Remove from oven top with bacon or sausage.

I’m sure there are a million ways this could be changed. I added a little salsa before adding the egg but I kept the ones for kids simple. You could even scramble the eggs if you wanted.

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