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Kneaders French Toast with Grandma’s Vanilla Syrup

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We are HUGE Kneaders fans. If you haven’t been to Kneaders you are missing out! It is a Cafe/Bakery that is fantastic!  Amazing salads, soups and sandwiches, along with homemade breads and pastries that are to die for! Especially their Fruit and Key Lime Tarts. We used to have a tradition to go to breakfast at Kneaders for all of our birthdays.  We would always order their All-You-Can-Eat French Toast with caramel syrup!  Taking all seven of us to get breakfast early in the morning, and driving 25 miles into town got to be a little over the top, but we sure loved it.

So you probably came here hoping that I would share their Cinnamon Bread Recipe, but I’m not.  Sorry!  Maybe one day! When it comes to birthdays, I just don’t have the time to whip up Cinnamon bread, make and decorate a birthday cake, and plan and carry out a birthday party!  So I am here to tell you my trick to having the same breakfast you would have at Kneaders in your own kitchen for only $5.00! {That’s about how much one All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast costs)

A few weeks ago we were in Kneaders on a Saturday night and someone in line mentioned that everything in the bakery area was 1/2 price after 8:00 every Saturday.  SCORE!!  $0.75 Desserts and $1.50 loaf of homemade wheat bread made our date night that much better!!  Our sons birthday was this last week, so last Saturday on our date night we stopped by Kneaders and picked up their Cinnamon Bread for 1/2 Price which made it $2.00 a loaf!  We bought two loaves, came home and saved it for a couple of days.  It freezes fine, but we just put it in our pantry.  The morning of my sons birthday we made our own version of Kneaders All-You-Can-Eat French Toast, and besides having to clean up our own mess, it was totally worth it!

Kneaders French Toast
{Printable Version Here}
  • 1 Loaf of Kneaders Cinnamon Bread
  • 4 Eggs
  • 1/2-3/4 Cup Milk
  • 1t cinnamon (optional)
  • 1/2 t Vanilla.
You can do this over night and soak your french toast in it, but we just did it that morning and dipped our french toast in the egg mixture.  Get a cake pan or something big enough to dip your bread in.
Add Eggs, Milk, Cinnamon and Vanilla. Beat together.
Slice the Bread in 1 inch slices.  (We got about 8 slices per loaf.) Drench in Egg mixture and place in pan or on a griddle.  We like to cook a lot at once on a griddle so we can eat together!
This is how happy your children will look if you make this for them…
And now for the best part.  But first a little about where this recipe came from!  My grandma is one of the most wonderful woman I know, I have written about her a lot here, here, and I know a more but I can’t find it.  She is quite simply amazing, and I am so grateful for all that she has taught me!  When we come up to visit she always makes us a yummy breakfast, one of which is always pancakes and her vanilla syrup.  She always reminds me that she got the recipe from one of her daughter-in-laws, but I don’t listen.  She makes it for us, It’s her syrup!  My kids love helping her make it and love pouring it from her pottery pitcher that she stores it in.  It’s adorable!

Grandma’s Vanilla Syrup

  • 1 cube butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • stir until dissolved
  • Add 1/2 C milk with 1 tsp lemon juice
  • Let boil for l-2 minutes while stirring, remove from heat
  • Add a pinch of Baking Soda & 1t. Vanilla
  • Store in a Canning Jar in the fridge
Top with whipped cream and a fresh sliced Strawberry (We didn’t have any) and enjoy!

Happy Eating!

Comments

  2. Ohhhh yum!! When I lived in Utah I went there atleast once a month! I used to bring their 12 grain bread home to Georgia for my mom to have a slice! Thanks for sharing and that’s true..there’s no vanilla in the vanilla syrup 🙂

  4. OH my goodness this looks AMAZING! I love french toast and I’ve never had it there! Looks like a road trip is in order for some of that yummy bread! Thanks for sharing!