French Toast Waffles

This is one of my boys' favorite breakfasts. Since we had extra time this morning, I made it for them and they were thrilled! I like this recipe because it is easy, I can use high fiber bread for the dairy poster boy, and making it in the waffle iron makes the bread much less soggy than normal French toast. My husband and I are probably the only two people in the world who don't like the over night French toast casserole everyone makes. We just really hate soggy bread! Yuck! If you are like us, you'll like this recipe because it gives you the flavor of French toast without being soggy.

INGREDIENTS

Bread (as many slices as you want ... I guess I usually make around 8 pieces with this and like I said I use double fiber bread. A friend made this for her niece who doesn't like whole wheat bread and she loved it until she came back for a second piece and saw my friend using wheat bread ... kids ... and some big people, too! :o)

2 eggs

3/4 to 1 cup of milk (I use 1%)

Cinnamon and nutmeg to taste

3 kitchen tablespoons of sugar (sorry I didn't measure with a real measuring spoon ... I normally don't measure at all)

1 tsp. of vanilla (I forgot to add that today, but they were still really good without it)

Preheat your waffle iron. Mine is big enough that I can do 2 at a time, but many waffle irons will only be big enough to do one at time. Beat the eggs, milk, sugar, and cinnamon and nutmeg together. Dip your bread into the mixture to coat it. Open your waffle iron and spray it with cooking spray. Put your egg mixture coated bread on the iron, close it and cook it until desired doneness. If you like your bread soggy, don't cook it as long, if you like it crispier, cook it a little longer.

I top it with light butter and sugar free Mrs. Butterworth syrup. The sugar free Mrs. Butterworth brand is the BEST sugar free syrup I've ever eaten ... this is not an advertisement, I just really like this syrup. (There are several types of food that I have to have only one certain brand. I may list those one day.) This sugar free syrup is thick and doesn't have as bad of an artificial sweetener twang to it as some do. Being thick and not watery helps a bunch, too. Yummy! The kids don't know the difference and it cuts WAY down on their sugar consumption.