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    Home » Recipes » Breakfast » Peanut Butter French Toast and Homemade Organic Strawberry Syrup

    LAST UPDATED: May 22, 2020 • FIRST PUBLISHED: June 10, 2012 By Toni Dash 29 Comments

    Peanut Butter French Toast and Homemade Organic Strawberry Syrup

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    peanut butter french toast and strawberry syrup

    When I was growing up I was obsessed with peanut butter. I felt it went with everything and spared no other food from an experimental addition of some ‘PB’ at one time or another. I even would sometimes sneak out of bed and scoop out a handful of it to eat plain (which now sadly sounds more like a closet eating disorder rather than an unbridled childhood culinary fixation).

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    peanut butter french toast and strawberry syrup on white plate

    As kids my Mom would always let us pick what we wanted on our birthdays for breakfast. My choice was always Peanut Butter French Toast. I’m not sure where the original recipe came from; whether my Mom made it up to appease my enthusiastic food crush or whether she found it somewhere.

    I’d forgotten about Peanut Butter French Toast as I’ve not had it as an adult, however last week was my birthday and for some reason it sprang to mind. I decided it was the perfect time to create a current recipe to bring my childhood memory out of mothballs into the present. It also meshed with what I really wanted to do for my birthday which was go strawberry picking at a favorite local organic farm. I thought making some Homemade Organic Strawberry Syrup would be a great match.

    homemade fresh strawberry syrup
    For me a signature summer food experience is berry picking. My favorite location is Berry Patch Farms in Brighton Colorado. It is an organic farm and a mix between ‘you pick’ and farm-harvested produce that is available for sale in their barn store on site.

    berry patch farms brighton colorado

    Colorado has two strawberry picking seasons; a short one in June and the longer season in August. We’ve had unseasonal early heat which brought on the June strawberries early as well.

    Things worked out that the first possible day to go would be my birthday and ironically I received an email from the farm the night before saying that would also be the last picking day of the June season! Seemed like destiny.

    freshly picked strawberries

    On a blustery, hot, relatively crowded day my kids and I spent about 40 minutes searching through the fields for 4 beautiful, perfectly ripened quarts of organic strawberries for which we paid $13 (actually there were a few juice boxes in there too so it would have been less)!

    I have mentioned this before but the flavor of a field ripened strawberry tastes nothing like a store purchased strawberries. They are completely sweet in a much fuller, more flavorful way and soft in texture.

    hand picked strawberries

    It’s really ruined me for purchasing strawberries in a store but there could be a worse fate. If you have a chance to purchase berries freshly picked from a farm or picked yourself, you must do it!

    As you might guess this Peanut Butter French toast and Strawberry Syrup combo tastes just like a PBJ sandwich in the best way. With minimal sweetening the natural flavors of both the peanuts and the strawberries shine through.
    peanut butter french toast collage

    Still a peanut butter lover, I love the warm peanut flavor and felt it makes for a unique, satisfying dish. It was devoured by my familial taste testers. Even the one not as partial to peanut butter begged me to make it for breakfast the following day.

    breakfast with peanut butter french toast

    A note on French toast bread choices. Traditional thinking is that French toast is a perfect use of stale bread as it tends to soak up the egg mixture more. I have followed that and also made French toast with regular bread and find both are good.

    fresh strawberries and powdered sugar

    I bake my own gluten free bread (Gluten Free Pantry ‘Favorite Sandwich Bread’ augmented with chia seeds and other seeds for additional protein and fiber) so I used that with great results. A favorite French toast bread for me prior to becoming gluten free was croissants. If you have not made French toast with croissants you must try it!

    peanut butter French Toast with strawberry syrup - bite

    The strawberries I used were very sweet and very soft. If you taste your berries and they are not as sweet you can always add more sweetener to your syrup. I like honey though different varieties can have distinct flavors so always taste it for your liking first.

    Also granulated sugar helps preserve the color of the berries in a way honey does not which is another reason I used it. If your berries are harder, you may chop them into very small pieces before attempting to mash them which will help.

    fresh strawberries on peanut butter French toast

    Recipe

    Peanut Butter French Toast and Homemade Organic Strawberry Syrup BoulderLocavore.com

    PEANUT BUTTER FRENCH TOAST

    Peanut butter and jelly reinvented for a breakfast favorite.
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    Course: Breakfast
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
    Servings: 1 French Toast: 1 serving of 2 pieces of toast. Strawberry Syrup yield: 1 3/4 cups syrup
    Calories: 501kcal
    Author: Toni Dash
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    Ingredients

    Peanut Butter French Toast

    • ½ tablespoon butter
    • 1 egg
    • 1 teaspoon agave nectar
    • 2 tablespoons milk
    • 2 tablespoons peanut butter room temperature ; smooth or crunchy, your preference
    • 2 slices of bread gluten free or gluten bread

    HOMEMADE ORGANIC STRAWBERRY SYRUP

    • 1 quart strawberries I prefer organic
    • ¼ cup honey
    • ¼ cup granulated sugar
    • ½ cup water
    • 1 teaspoon arrowroot starch or cornstarch

    Instructions

    Peanut Butter French Toast

    • Heat a small skillet to medium-high and melt butter.
    • In a small bowl whisk together egg, agave, milk and peanut butter until fully combined.
    • Pour mixture into a deep dish, flat bottom bowl or a pie tin.  Dip each side of bread into the batter fully coating it.
    • Place coated bread into the hot skillet and allow to brown on each side; about a minute per side (check by lifting toast with a spatula).  
    • When browned on both sides, remove from skillet and serve with powdered sugar and Homemade Organic Strawberry Syrup.

    Homemade Strawberry Syrup

    • Hull, core and slice strawberries.  Place them in a heavy saucepan and mash with potato masher or back of a large spoon.
    • In a small bowl, mix arrowroot starch in the ½ cup water with a whisk to fully combine.  Add sugar and honey.  Stir to mix together and pour over strawberries in the saucepan.
    • Bring to a medium boil and immediately reduce heat to medium or medium-low, allowing mixture to just simmer for 20-25 minutes when it should be thicker.  NOTE: Much of the thickening happens after it sits so don’t worry if it is not syrup consistency entirely.  Consistency note: if the syrup is more chunky that you desire, you may use a immersion or stick blender at this stage to smooth out the consistency.
    • Remove mixture from heat and allow it to cool for 20 minutes.  Use on French toast, pancakes, waffles or anything else you desire.  Place any access in a sealed jar in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

    Notes

    NOTE: cooking time for making the strawberry syrup.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 501kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 181mg | Sodium: 563mg | Potassium: 409mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 415IU | Calcium: 150mg | Iron: 3.3mg
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    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    TONI DASH
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    Toni Dash, is a Certified Nutrition Coach and the writer/blogger, photographer, recipe developer and creator of Boulder Locavore®. She has been developing easy to make, well-tested recipes since 2010. Her seasonal recipes bring excitement to the dining table for both gluten-free and gluten diners. Toni has been featured in numerous publications and on culinary websites for her creative, delicious recipes and travel features. For more details, check out her About page.

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    1. Val says

      September 15, 2013 at 5:52 pm

      I totally made these last night and I sooooo WISH I had the syrup to go with it!!! :). Yummmmy!

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      • Toni Dash says

        September 15, 2013 at 6:25 pm

        I’m SO glad you liked them! Definitely a peanut-butter lovers recipe. Thanks much for leaving your comment!

        Reply
    2. Nichole@DulceDelicious says

      June 15, 2012 at 2:09 pm

      5 stars
      This sounds great! I love the addition of the strawberry syrup. Yum!

      Reply
    3. Lisa @ Tarte du Jour says

      June 12, 2012 at 7:03 pm

      I love making food from my childhood and although my mom did not make peanut butter french toast, I sure wish she did! So tell me, what gluten-free bread do you recommend? Every brand that I have tried from Whole Foods is like a brick. BTW, we just bought a bunch of different gluten free beers this weekend and we are going to invite some friends over for a blind taste test. Thanks for the recommendations!

      Reply
    4. Nikki @ The Tolerant Vegan says

      June 12, 2012 at 8:37 pm

      I cannot stop thinking about this and how awesome it must taste!

      Reply
    5. Baker Street says

      June 12, 2012 at 11:10 am

      Oh Toni! Your pictures always make me hungry! I would love a PB french toast for breakfast today! The homemade strawberry syrup sounds heavenly!

      Reply
    6. Debra Eliot says

      June 12, 2012 at 1:13 am

      I always put peanut butter ON my French toast, waffles and pancakes. I have never thought to put peanut butter IN them. I love this!

      Reply
    7. createwithmom says

      June 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm

      wonderful picture we can have french toast anytime 🙂

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      • Boulder Locavore says

        June 11, 2012 at 7:37 pm

        Thank you! Now you have a new French toast to add to your regular rotation.

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