Animal Cracker Latte Recipe

A simple fun take on your weekend at home latte.

Ingredients: (Serves 1):

• Animal Crackers - Plain

• 1 Cup Milk

• Coffee

• Cinnamon

Additional Equipment:

• Milk Frother

• Container with lid

• Animal Crackers Frosted with Sprinkles for fun decorations

Instructions:

• Pour 1 cup milk into container

• Put a handful of animal cracker in the milk, cover, and let sit overnight in the fridge.

• In the morning pour your favorite coffee or espresso in a mug.

• Strain the animal crackers out of the milk. Pour strained milk into a milk frother.

• Using a spoon pour hot milk over the coffee and then scoop the remaining foam on top.

• Top with a dash of cinnamon and can garnish with frosted animal cracker on top.

Enjoy!

Red Pepper and Spinach Egg Muffin Quiche Bites

Being a big egg fan and not a big chef in the mornings… ( I love my sleep.) I make these quiche egg bites almost every week as my breakfast meal prep. It makes mornings so much easier to reheat in the microwave for a minute, make my coffee and be on my way.

These mini quiches pack a lot of veggies in and can easily switch up or add ingredients, this particular batch I added bacon and cheese. It proves to be a no fuss recipe as I use pre-made pie crust, sauté some vegetables, and bake.

Hope you enjoy these bite sized egg bites!

Red Pepper and Spinach Egg Muffin Quiche Bites

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Serves: 12

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Ingredients:

Base:

• 1 Pre-made pie crust (I use Pillsbury pie crust)

Fillings:

• 1 red pepper

• 1 6oz bag of spinach

• half an onion (diced)

• 2 cloves garlic

  • Optional or Additional Filling Options:

  • Cheese: shredded cheese, feta

  • Bacon

  • Mushrooms

Egg Mixture:

• 6 eggs

• 1/4 cup of milk

• Salt & Pepper

Hardware:

• Muffin Tin

• Mason jar

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Chop up and dice the garlic, onions, and red pepper.

Drizzle some oil in your pan and sauté the garlic, onions, and red pepper until slightly browned and softened (about 10 minutes).

Add in the spinach until wilted. Set the veggie mixture aside.

Get out your muffin tin and spray with some non-stick spray.

Roll out your pie crust on a clean surface. I use a mason jar to cut out circles in the dough. If you have a round cooke cutter that would work as well. When I use my mason jar it gives me 8 round dough circles before I have to re-roll out the dough for the remaining 4 circles.

Place the round dough into the muffin tin. Next, I put these in the oven for about 7 minutes to cook the dough a bit for a sturdier base for when I add the filling.

Meanwhile, start making the egg mixture.

Combine 6 eggs in a bowl. Add the milk and some salt and pepper and whisk up.

Add the egg mixture and fill each muffin tin to the top.

Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool and enjoy for brunch, breakfast, or meal prep for the week.

That’s it! But here’s some additional notes….

Reheating: Place on a plate and heat up in a microwave for 1 minute.

In this recipe I used bacon. I prefer to bake my bacon at 350 degrees and let it bake until I start to smell the bacon and until it gets really crispy. You can then chop up some bits and add the the veggie mixture you create. I also added Trader Joe’s Unexpected Cheese and it’s just so good in this recipe… options ;)

Candy Corn Waffle Recipe🍁 🎃

Hope you’re ready for that fall content, because here is comes! I originally found this recipe in a magazine, who still reads those?! And modified it slightly based on ingredients I actually had in the house.

Really easy and fun breakfast to make for the fall spirit, hope you enjoy!

Ingredients:

• 2 Cups Flour

• 2 Tablespoons Sugar

• 4 Teaspoons Baking Soda

• 1 Teaspoon Salt

• 2 Eggs

• 1 1/2 Cups Milk

• 1 Stick of Melted Butter

• Orange & Yellow Food Coloring to Tint the Batter

• Waffle Maker

Directions:

• Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl or stand mixer.

• Whisk in eggs, milk, butter with the dry ingredients on low/medium speed or by hand.

• Tint half the batter with orange and half yellow food coloring.

• Preheat waffle maker to the lowest setting and spray with some non-stick spray.

• Spoon some orange batter into the middle of the waffle maker and some yellow batter around it.

• Cook until just crisp.

• Separate into triangles.

• Dip the tips in melted white chocolate.

Figs in a Blanket Recipe (Fig Compote Sandwiched Between French Toast)

Summer is wrapping up and that means so is fig season. After making a different recipe I still had so many figs left over and decided to make what I like to call a “figs in a blanket”. Meaning make a simple fig compote and sandwich between french toast slides ( I used Trader Joe’s Brioche Slices and omg incredible!)

Ingredient List (Serves: 4-5)

• 1 Carton of Figs (I got mine at Trader Joe’s)

• 2 eggs

• 1 cup of milk

• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

• 1 teaspoon of butter extract

• 1 tablespoon of maple syrup

• 1 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

• 1 loaf of Trader Joe's Sliced French Brioche (or a loaf of challah bread (sliced) will do.)

Directions (Batter & French Toast)

1. Make the egg mixture. Combine eggs and mix in the milk, vanilla, maple syrup, cinnamon.

2. Heat up your griddle or saucepan on medium-high.

3. Spray your pan with non-stick spray or you can use melted butter as an alternative. (I prefer butter but go through a lot of it with french toast)

4. Dip each slice of brioche bread in egg mixture, soaking both sides. Put in the griddle or pan, and cook on both sides until golden.

Fig Compote:

• Wash produce, cut steams off, and cut into quarters. Place cut figs in a bowl.

• Heat up a saucepan on medium high heat with about a tablespoon of butter.

• Add the fruit and let break down. Then add half a lemon or lemon juice and 1/3 cup sugar.

• Mash with a fork to break down bigger pieces of fruit. Simmer for about 10-15 minutes until a fig jam consistency forms.

• Spread fig compote in between french toast slices. Top with fresh figs (quartered or in half for presentation.)