Honey-Glazed Pecan French Toast

Ingredients (serves 4):

• 8 slices of thick Texas Toast bread (you can also have your local bakery cut thick-sliced bread for you)
• 6 large eggs
• 2 cups milk (soy works just as well as regular milk)
• 4 tbsp cinnamon
• 4 tbsp honey
• 4 tbsp brown sugar
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• powdered sugar

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Slice each piece of Texas Toast diagonally and set aside.
• Mix eggs and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add milk and mix well.
• Dip each slice of bread in egg mixture, coating both sides. Put bread on parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
• Drizzle honey over bread. Sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans.
• Bake french toast in the oven for 20 minutes.
• Remove and plate with 4 triangular slices per plate. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with warm syrup.

Alternatives:

• For lactose intolerant eaters, use soy milk instead of regular milk. Vanilla-flavored soy is a good choice.
• For Vegans, use an egg replacer instead of real eggs or mash 2 bananas and mix with soy milk and cinnamon to dip bread in.
• For diabetics, replace brown sugar with Splenda brown sugar and leave the powdered sugar off.  Serve with sugar-free syrup.