Cap’n Crunch French Toast…it’s a thing!
Okay, the truth is, I actually CAN cook.
I know I don’t always come off as the most domestic girl ever because of things like starting microwave fires and randomly finding a bottle of maple syrup…in my bed. (It used to be the oddest object I’d ever found in my bed…until the day I looked EVERYWHERE for my DVD superdrive and finally found it under my pillows. Eh, no, the syrup is still more random.)
But when I have the time and inclination (which isn’t often, I grant you, but still) I can Betty Crocker it up just fine! In the past week, I’ve posted a couple photos on Instagram of recent breakfast wins and had requests for the recipes. Incidentally, both of these yummy morning treats appear in past stories. I’m sharing those recipes below—one for crepes and one for caramel rolls.
AND I have a third breakfast fave that appears in my upcoming book, From the Start: Cap’n Crunch French Toast. My heroine, Kate, makes it for my hero, Colton, late one night. Cap’n Crunch is her secret ingredient. I tested this recipe a few weeks ago and you guys, it’s awesome. My super cool publisher created postcards with the recipe on the back and I’d love to send you one.
SO leave a comment below about YOUR favorite breakfast food and I will randomly pick 10 people to receive a postcard with the Cap’n Crunch French Toast Recipe…
The Easiest Crepe Recipe Ever
In my book, Here to Stay, my character Autumn has a dream of traveling to France. And one of the things she’s most excited for? Crepes. (True story: I went to Paris for a weekend once…and ate three massive crepes in one day. It was glorious.) In one of my favorite scenes in the book, Blake, the hero in the story, makes crepes for Autumn. Below is the recipe I had in mind when writing that scene…trust me, it’s almost impossible to mess these up!
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 1 1/2 c. milk
- 1 c. flour
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1/4 c. oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Whisk together all ingredients
- Heat a lightly greased round griddle or pan over medium-high heat
- Pour about 1/4 cup batter into the pan and tilt until the batter fills it
- Cook until lightly browned and edges lift up easily
- Serve hot with maple syrup, Nutella, berries, chocolate sauce, or anything else delicious
Caramel rolls aka gooey goodness
I LOVE this recipe. Love it, love it, love it! Literally takes 5-7 minutes to throw together at night and then 25 minutes to bake in the morning. In my novella, Three Little Words (it’s free!), we find out the Walker family who is at the center of my new series has a thing for breakfast food. These caramel rolls are mentioned in an early scene.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ dozen frozen dinner rolls
- 1 pkg vanilla pudding (not instant)
- ¾ c. melted margarine or butter
- ¾ c. brown sugar
- ¼ c. white sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Small package any kind of nuts (I like pecans or walnuts)
Instructions
- Grease a glass 9×13 or 9×11 pan
- Sprinkle the nuts across the bottom and then stick the rolls on top
- Sprinkle the dry pudding mix over the rolls
- Mix sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over top
- Pour melted margarine over everything
- Cover with wax paper and let rise overnight
- Pre-heat oven at 350 and bake for 25 minutes
- Cool for 15 minutes in the pan and then invert
Leave a comment below about YOUR favorite breakfast food. Ten random winners will receive a postcard from me with a Cap’n Crunch French Toast Recipe. Make sure to include your email address so we can connect if you win!
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I’m an Australian (living in the U.S. ) and I’d have to say my favorite breakfast food is Vegemite on toast. (Old habits die hard!) LOVED your novella and your books. Can’t wait to read your next release!
Melissa, if there’s a time stamp for comments, please ignore the numbers. I’m working extremely late tonight (or is 3:00 am considered morning?) because I’m on a deadline. I needed a brief mental break, so I thought I’d get a little dose of your fun writing style before getting back to work.
My favorite breakfast food is one I discovered back in the fourth grade. Waffle Crisp cereal. It disappeared for years, but it’s back, repackaged and renamed. It’s now under the moniker Waffle Crunch in Post’s “Good MOREnings” line of cereals. You should have seen me when I found out my local Walmart was stocking it again. I flung several boxes into my cart faster than I thought possible. If I had any sort of dance background whatsoever, I’d have been dancing down the aisles!
Thanks for sharing your recipes, Melissa. I’ll have to remember to print them out tomorrow…er, later today.
Hugs,
Andrea
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I used to not be a breakfast person because I was a night owl and didn’t get up until it was too late for breakfast. But now I get up about 5 am so breakfast is a must. Typically I just have a yogurt and/or a granola bar. But as for my favorite that’s hard to pick! There’s my homemade cinnamon rolls, spice cake donuts from the bakery I work at, Lucky Charms, waffles, or french toast!
Cap’n Crunch French Toast – that does sound really good! French toast is actually my favorite breakfast food so I would love to try this twist on it. My favorite cereal as a child was the Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch. I wonder how that would taste as French toast? Hmmm.
Okay, wow, I’m going to sound like the world’s most boring breakfast eater ever after reading those recipes. I eat a bowl of oatmeal. Every. Single. Morning. (*head hanging*) And it’s plain oatmeal to boot! 🙂
Hi Melissa!
I usually never eat breakfast, but here lately, I’ve been picking up the Nature Valley Almond granola bars! So good and so addicting!
My fav breakfast food is a frittata.
My favorite breakfast food is a yummy scrambled egg sandwich the bread is toasted of course and I love to add cheese to the eggs as well.
I eat the same thing every day. No lie. But I often make breakfast for dinner. My favorite is a sweet french toast casserole that is super easy to put together b/c you use pillsbury Grans biscuits. I’m all about easy:)
Wow! Those look yummy! My mouth is watering just reading the recipes. I must try them!!!
I don’t like a lot of breakfast foods, but my favorite is my mom’s homemade caramel rolls!!!
Overnight french toast…and ooey gooey cinnamon
rolls with a carmel sauce made with ice cream! Yum!
YAY! I don’t need to be entered in your drawing, BUT, I am so excited that you posted this! 🙂 I don’t believe you that the crepes can’t be messed up though…I may have to try them just to see. My favorite breakfast is french toast with two eggs (over medium) on top, salted, and covered in pure maple syrup AND COFFEE. <3
Guess I left off my favorite breakfast food. I LOVE French Toast with tons of butter, but no syrup. (Same for pancakes)
I’m like Crystal Walton in that every morning I eat the same exact thing: Cascadian Farm’s dark chocolate almond granola cereal. Even when my hubby makes up waffles for him and our kids, I still choose the cereal (sorry, honey!). That said, I LOVE French toast–I will set aside my granola for that–so I’m intrigued to try this twist on my fav classic. 🙂
I love crepes!!!!!! Will have to try this recipe out. Maybe for lunch. And I loved Three Little Words. Can’t wait for From the Start.
My favorite breakfast food is either: guilty: Fruity Peebles or healthy: Steel Cut oats with berries and bananas.
Ooooh Melissa!! Thanks SO much!! My favorite breakfast food is actually either French Toast (Mom makes amazing cinnamon French toast!!) or pancakes topped with warm peaches and whipped cream at Cracker Barrel!! YUM!! 🙂
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The breakfast I eat everyday is either a bagel, or yogurt with granola. On the weekends though I like waffles or pancakes. I also wanted to tell you I loved Three Little Words and I can’t wait to read From The Start! 🙂
Hi Melissa
Thank you for this post. My favorite breakfast is french toast. I think I may just have to try the captain crunch recipe sometime. I would love to receive one of your postcards. Thank you for the opportunity.
Blessings,
Rebecca (rsuebell1973@yahoo.com)
I love all kinds of breakfast food but my favorite would have to be biscuits and gravy and eggs and bacon 🙂
I would have to say that my favorite breakfast ever was my mom’s sticky rolls…the kind that starts with frozen bread dough, melted brown sugar, cinnamon, and pudding and is just absolutely amazing fresh from the oven! She used to make it most Saturdays when I was growing up, especially if one of us had a friend sleep over. I also love omelets, as long as someone else is doing the cooking! 😉
Hi Melissa,
My favorite breakfast recipe is homemade chocolate croissants
Being from Tennessee, my grandmother and my mom would make biscuits and chocolate gravy! Mmmm, add a pat of butter and it is amazing!
Favourite breakfast? I would have to say the kind I can get at a hotel.
You know, bread, sausage, bacon, tomatoes, potatocake. depending on the hotel, that is;)
I live in norway, and warm breakfast are not common here.
I think my all time favorite breakfast is probably French toast. Unfortunately, I don’t have it all that often, though I did find these awesome maple French toast flavored bagles! I put a little butter and just a smidge of syrup on them and volia! As close to it as I’m going to get on a work day! 🙂
Just had a thought – My other favorite would have to be apple cinnamon pancakes. They are SO good! My grandma used to make them for us when my sister and I were little and I recently tried making them myself. Best idea I’ve had in a while!
I’m quite intrigued by the Cap ‘N Crunch French toast. I will definitely be reading From the Start next! It’s sitting in my TBR pile awaiting the completion of the book I was in the middle of.
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My favorite breakfast is creamed chipped beef on toast. I don’t eat it often but when I do I feel like I am back in my childhood.
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Yeah, those crepes are SO good!!! (Definitely my favorite breakfast/snack/anytime food) 😉 I’m totally going to try those “gooey goodness” caramel rolls now…….. yummm!
Even though I rarely get it, my favorite breakfast is quiche. I love quiche but don’t take the time to make it.
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my favorite breakfast is tomato gravey and biscuits my email is houswife@gmail.com. thanks and God bless you and your family
My favorite breakfast is Overnight French Toast Casserole! It is so much more than French toast in a big pan! Something about the overnight…and the streusel topping that you put on just before baking…yum!!
My favorite breakfast……toast with peanut butter and syrup!
My favorite breakfast is Scrambled Eggs.
What a fun post, Melissa! There are far too many breakfast favorites. Though to be honest, I don’t make them often and usually go with “simple” like eggs (sometimes an omelet) and toast. However, if we “get fancy,” I love these recipes: cherry or lemon poppy seed muffins, pasta frittata, cinnamon/pumpkin rolls and too many other recipes to name. Breakfast has lots of fun recipes and because of that, it’s tempting to MAKE THEM ALL. 😉