Easy Vegan French Toast
Vegan French toast — a simple recipe that is perfect for lazy weekend mornings.
This vegan French toast is easy like Sunday Saturday morning.
Slice, swirl, dunk and drop — those are the directions. It’s the kind of recipe that takes minimal effort or brain power yet reaps a sweet reward.
I came up with it this weekend on a whim.
Usually, weekends = waffles in our house. But on Friday, my husband brought home a loaf of my favorite naturally-leavened, organic whole-wheat sourdough bread from Clark Street Bakery in downtown LA, and I didn’t want a crumb to go to waste.
French toast — obvi — I thought as I stumbled bleary-eyed into the kitchen Saturday morning. Alas, I was out of a key ingredient: eggs.
No worries, flax to the rescue.
I quickly whisked together a few breakfast recipe essentials — ground flaxseed, banana, soy milk, almond extract (as I was also out of vanilla) — and let the chewy hunks of whole grains sop up the goodness.
Success.
The beauty of this recipe was I didn’t even measure the ingredients yet they came together seamlessly.
Don’t worry, when I made it again Sunday (because if one day of vegan French toast is good, two days is better), I measured them out so I could be sure it would work when I shared it with you guys.
- 2 tablespoons ground flax seed + 4 tablespoons warm water
- 1 banana
- 1 cup almond, soy or coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon almond extract (or vanilla, maple, etc.)
- ½ tablespoon cinnamon
- 4-6 slices whole grain bread (can sub gluten-free)
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- maple syrup
- peanut butter
- hemp seeds
- In a small bowl, combine flax and water. Let sit for about 3 minutes.
- In a medium, shallow bowl, mash banana.
- Add flax mixture, milk, extract, cinnamon, whisk together. Let mixture sit for about 10 minutes.
- Dunk bread and thoroughly coat with mixture.
- Warm coconut oil in a large skillet.
- Cook toast for about 3 minutes per side, until golden brown.
- Add toppings and serve immediately.
- Enjoy!
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Weigh in: What is your favorite weekend morning meal? Will you try this vegan French toast?
Kara @ Byte Sized Nutrition says:
I love using flax as an egg substitute in baking and I’ve always wanted to try it for french toast. These looks AMAZING! And peanut butter, banana and maple syrup are the BEST toppings!
Shannon @ KISS in the Kitchen says:
OH my gosh, Whitney- this looks to die for! I want to move to LA so you can make me breakfast :D.
Kelli @ Hungry Hobby says:
Epic egg sandwiches are my favorite weekend meal but I could totally go for some french toast!
abbey sharp says:
I’m a sucker for a good fritatta or a stack of delicious pancakes on the weekend!! I sway between wanting sweet/ savoury, but these look amazing!! Need to try next weekend!!!
Lauren O'Connor says:
I’m such a fan of french toast! This looks so scrumptuous!!
Gabriella Vetere says:
My favorite weekend brunch is a poached egg with has. So so good! This does look awesome. Gonna try it out!
Danielle Cushing says:
This looks so delicious… better than regular French Toast!
kristina @ Love & Zest says:
I love this recipe! It looks so good– I always top everything with bananas!
Kat says:
Jezuz! Amazing – and I have almost all of those things lying about already. Weekend plans complete. I actually found your blog because I was looking for a sauce to make with my new black bean pasta (which I’m now even more excited about).
Btw if you’re on FB – would love for you to join our group of food lovers. It’s called Good Eats and you can check us out here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OnlyGoodEats/
I reckon they’d LURVE this recipe. :)
Whitney English says:
Thanks for the invite Kat and for the kind words! I will check out the group!