Skinny French Toast

Skinny French Toast

Here's something I never thought I would see again until a cheat day came around. Delicious, fluffy, buttery and sweet french toast. Okay, so the diet alarms are going off. Bad idea, right? Well, not with the right ingredients.

Let's put things into perspective. The average calorie count for "regular" French Toast (with butter) is 357 calories for two slices. That's roughly 11 Weight Watchers SmartPoints (probably even more once you counted all the saturated fat and sugar).  This would be using most of the typical ingredients: egg, regular bread, maple syrup, sugar, cinnamon, milk... all of which adds up extremely quickly.

So, how does my french toast compare? Two slices of my Skinny French Toast is roughly 160 calories, and only 3 Weight Watchers SmartPoints!

How can this be? It's all about your choice of ingredients. Here's what I used for a two slice serving:

• Nature's Own 40 Calorie Honey Wheat Bread (2 slices)
• Egg Beaters (or generic egg whites) (1/4 cup)
• Mrs. Butterworth's Sugar Free Maple Syrup (2 tbs)
• Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk (optional, 1/8 cup)
• Blue Bonnet Light 31% Vegetable Oil Spread (1 tbs)
• Ground Cinnamon (1 tsp)
• Splenda (or any sugar substitute) 
• Imitation Vanilla Extract (optional, 1/4 tsp)

I always use Nature's Own 40 Calorie Honey Wheat Bread for all of my bread needs. It's the lowest calorie bread I can find that is also wholesome and doesn't lack in taste or quality. Also, for those of you who are on WW, it's 1 SmartPoint per slice! Same exact thing goes for Blue Bonnet Light 31% Vegetable Oil Spread, which is 1 SmartPoint per tablespoon. The other ingredients you see above amount to technically 0 SmartPoints for not only their negligibly low calorie, fat, and sugar content, but also their high protein content.  In my opinion, all of these amazing ingredient substitutes are must-haves!

Now that all of that is out of the way, let's get down to business (a.k.a. the recipe itself).

1. Heat a skillet or griddle to medium-high heat and grease with 1 tbs of light butter.
2. In a bowl, combine the egg, almond milk, vanilla extract, and a small amount of cinnamon and whisk the ingredients together. 
3. Briefly soak each slice of bread in the egg mixture, coating both sides of each slice. This will only take a few seconds for each side.
4. Lay the soaked bread slices in the skillet and cook until your desired toastiness.
5. When done, drizzle the sugar free syrup over the toast along with your desired amounts of cinnamon and sugar substitute. 
6. Indulge!

Of course, you don't have to make the recipe as "skinny" as I did. Skim milk, other brands of light bread and butter, whole eggs, and various other substitutes can be made as well to suit your taste-buds and dietary preferences!

Thanks for reading, and I hope yours turns out well! I'm always open to suggestions, requests, or comments.  I hope you enjoyed the very first Skinny Cafe original recipe!