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Super tasty French toast stars with ketchup dip – make kids a breakfast they’ll literally jump out of bed for!

French Toast Easy Recipe

Liven up the kids breakfast time with our yummy little French toast stars with a side of ketchup.

This is one of our favourite breakfast ideas for the kids.

These delicious eggy bread stars are sure to be a hit with your little one and they’re super simple to make.

Kids just love it when food is more interesting to look at and just who doesn’t want to be eating a star shaped breakfast?!

It’s a lovely weekday recipe and easily quick enough to make for school day breakfast.

white plate with french toast stars and a small pot of tomato ketchup dip.

French Toast Ingredients

French toast is a great food for kids – fast and super easy to make.

ingredients for french toast stars kids breakfast - two slices white bread, two eggs and a bottle of Heinz tomato ketchup on a wooden chopping board
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 slices white bread – you can use brown or wholegrain bread if you prefer.
  • 1 tbs olive oil for frying – you can swap for rapeseed oil if you like.
  • 1 tbs tomato ketchup to serve – feel free to add our favourite sauce to dip your stars

How to make French Toast Stars

This is great if your looking for recipes to use up eggs.

  • Whisk the eggs – crack the eggs in a small bowl or cup and whisk them with a fork.
two slices of white bread next to red, blue and white bowl filled with beaten eggs
  • Get ready to dip the bread– carefully pour the beaten eggs onto a small plate – one that fits a slice of bread on it.
beaten egg poured onto a white plate with two slices of white bread next to the plate
  • Dip the bread – place a slice of bread into the beaten egg mixture – press it down slightly, the bread is like a sponge it will soak up the egg mixture.
beaten egg poured onto a white side plate with a piece of white bread soaking up the egg waiting to be turned over to coat the other side
  • Turn the bread over – coat the other side in the egg mixture.

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piece of white bread dipped into beaten egg yolk on a white plate
  • Heat the oil in the pan – add a splash of olive oil to a non stick frying pan over a medium heat – once the oil is hot place the eggy bread into the pan to fry.
  • Cook the eggy bread – cook for around 2 minutes on one side before flipping and cooking the other side – make sure both sides are lovely and golden brown.
piece of eggy bread being fried in a Tefal non stick frying pan
  • Soak up excess oil – once cooked place the eggy bred onto a slice of kitchen paper to soak up any excess oil.
  • Cut out the stars – transfer to a chopping board and using the star shaped cookie cutter cut out as many stars as you can from the French toast.
piece of freshly cooked french toast on a white plate with a star shaped cookie cutter on top of it - small blue and white bowl with ketchup next to the plate
french toast cut into little star shapes on a blue plate with a pot of tomato ketchup next to it

Make school day breakfast your way

Our French toast stars are super tasty and one of our favourite fun breakfast ideas just as they are.

But you can mix things up differently – try….

  • Add more fibre! – for ramping up the fibre content and choose a wholegrain or seeded bread
  • Swap the dip! – serve with BBQ dip or drizzled in maple syrup
  • Make gluten free eggy bread – use gluten free bread and be sure the dip is gluten free too

How to serve French bread stars

  • Perfect for school day breakfast – add a glass of smoothie or fresh juice. 
  • I tend to add a healthy smoothie like our delicious spinach and kiwi smoothie with banana and yogurt.

Get the Spinach Smoothie recipe here. You can’t taste the spinach in this smoothie at all and so it’s a great way to get kids to eat greens!

magimix food processor with the small bowl filled with sliced banana, chopped kiwi pieces, and baby spinach leaves

More kids breakfast recipes to make

  • Chocolate sprinkle breakfast sandwiches – this sweet little breakfast is inspired by the Dutch classic kids breakfast – buttered bread with chocolate sprinkles – perfect treat breakfast for kids.
  • Wise owl toast – this healthy breakfast is just the CUTEST! Toasted muffins spread with peanut butter and decorated with fruit to look like little owls.
  • Cereal sundae – serve cereal in a more exciting way – layer up cereal with yogurt and fruit and add a drizzle of syrup or honey to finish off.

Get lots more delicious, healthy kid friendly recipes here

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French Toast Stars

french toast cut into little star shapes on a blue plate with a pot of tomato ketchup next to it

Super tasty French toast stars with ketchup dip – make kids a breakfast they’ll literally jump out of bed for!

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs 
  • 2 slices white bread
  • 1 tbs olive oil 
  • 1 tbs tomato ketchup

Instructions

  1. Whisk the eggs and pour the eggy mixture onto a plate.
  2. Dip the bread into the egg mixture and coat both sides.
  3. Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a frying pan and cook the eggy bread until golden brown on both sides.
  4. Cut star shapes from the eggy bread using a cookie cutter.
  5. Serve straight away with tomato ketchup for dipping.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

1

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 444Total Fat: 25gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 18gCholesterol: 372mgSodium: 592mgCarbohydrates: 36gFiber: 2gSugar: 7gProtein: 18g

Nutritional content will vary depending on the exact ingredients you use and how careful you are with measuring - this nutritional information is given as a general guide only and may not be accurate - you should always calculate your own nutritional information especially if you have specific dietary requirements.

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