Peanut Butter & Jelly French Toast

This is a super easy, yummy recipes kids and adults will love. Good for breakfast or lunch or even a breakfast for dinner type day!

  • 8 slices whole wheat bread
  • 4 tbs peanut butter
  • 4 tbs jam/or jelly
  • 6 eggs
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 2 tbs vanilla extract
  • 4 tbs butter
  • 1/2 cup pure maple syrup (or honey if you want it to be a bit healthier)

Easy Steps:

  1. Beat eggs, milk, and vanilla in a bowl. Set aside.
  2. Melt 2 tbs butter in frying pan, dip 2 slices of bread in the mixture and fry until golden brown on both sides. (3 to 4 mins on each side). Set bread aside on plate when finished.
  3. Repeat until all the bread has been used.
  4. Spread 1 tbs peanut butter on 4 of the bread slices, and 1 tbs jam on the remaining 4.
  5. Place one jam and one peanut butter french toast together like sandwiches and cut in half.
  6. Use maple syrup or honey for dipping!

 

Ways to make  this different:

  • Sprinkle cinnamon to french toast before cooking
  • Add sliced bananas into the sandwiches

 

Cocktail Drink Recipes from YOU!

I’m making a quick posting with the cocktail drink recipes given by people who entered the contest so we can all add them into our recipe card boxes :) (I love you all so much, see!) Thanks to all who entered and good luck in future giveaways! Here they are!

Pomegranate Martini – submitted by Kayla

  • 1 oz rum (or citrus rum)
  • 1/2 oz orange liqueur
  • 1 oz pomegranate liqueur
  • 2 oz pomegranate Juice
  • ice
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice, for garnish
  • lemon slice, for garnish

Rim glass with sugar, shake with ice in cocktail shaker. Strain into glass and garnish with lemon wedge.

Kamikaze- submitted by Kayla

  • 1 oz. Triple Sec (Cointreau)
  • 1 oz. Vodka
  • 1 oz. Lime Juice
  • 1 wedge Lime

    Shake with ice in cocktail shaker, strain in glass and garnish with lime wedge. If your looking for trouble.. This is the way to go. Haha!

Chelsea’s Favourite – submitted by Chelsea

Our favorite is simple:

  • coconut rum
  • seven up
  • and ice.

It tastes like a pina colada.

Brown Cow: submitted by Lynn

  • 1 oz. Light Rum
  • 0.5 oz. Creme de Cacao
  • 0.25 oz. Creme de Menthe
  • 1 Scoop Chocolate Ice Cream
  • Chocolate Shavings for garnish

Blend all ingredients in blender. Pour into champagne flute and garnish with chocolate shavings.

White Sangria- submitted by Diana

  • 4 oranges, sliced
  • 2 bottles white wine(sweet) – I used Barefoot Moscotto because I don’t like to add sugar
  • 1/2 cup Grand Marnier
  • 7up to top it off

Chill in fridge then serve, or make sure your wine and oranges are chilled, and serve right after making.

 

 

 

 

 

Perfect Pina Colada’s

This drink will always have a special place in my heart :) It’s the first cocktail I ever made with fresh fruit and holy crap- it’s absolutely fabulous! I’m in love with it :)

Perfect Pina Colada’s

 

  • 3 oz Coco Colada-Cream of Coconut (Coconut milk)
  • 4 oz unsweetened pineapple juice
  • 1 cup crushed ice
  • 1/2 cup fresh pineapple diced
  • 2 oz Malibu Coconut rum

Blend. Serve. Add ice. Garnish with a cherry!

Chocolatini

My first chocolatini was heaven in a glass.  This is how you make it happen at home!

 

1 1/2 oz vanilla vodka
1 1/2 oz white creme de cocoa
1 oz baileys

Shake in martini shaker with ice, pour in martini glass, add a cherry for garnish. Drink, bask in chocolately ambiance and repeat!

 

Louisiana Lemonade

The Lousiana Lemonade:

  • 3/4 oz Mandarin Vodka
  • 3/4 oz Citrus Vodka
  • Pink Lemonade (my personal preference but you can use any kind of lemonade you want)
  • Grenadine

Add liquor to tall glass, fill up glass with lemonade. Add a splash of grenadine. Michelle suggests trying fresh squeezed or carbonated lemonade for a twist! Garnish with a cherry!

Tequila Sunrise

Everyone loves some sun :) Get your Vitamin D on!

 

  • 2 oz tequila
  • 4 oz orange juice
  • 1 oz grenadine

(in that order, garnish with an orange!)

My Best Friend’s County-Famous Blue Margaritas (Tried, Tested & True)

These are the BEST blue margaritas you will ever sample, that is a promise. My friend Michelle started off with a basic blue Margarita ingredients and literally kept re-trying until she got the Blue Margarita recipe right. Then, after it was right, she kept remaking it until it was perfected! After a few times, and a few hangovers- the Blue Margarita recipe was perfected to the point of utter flawlessness.

Here it is:

  • approximately one cup of ice cubes
  • 2 oz blue curacao
  • 3/4 oz tequila
  • 3/4 oz lime juice
  • 2 and a half tbs sugar

Add all ingredients to blender. Blend to desired consistency. Add more ice for a “thicker”drink, less for a slushy type drink. Pour into margarita glasses. Sprinkle sea salt or kosher salt  on top to taste, stir with a spoon, serve with straws, and garnish with lime.

Yay :) Thank you to Michelle for this recipe!

After 8

The After 8 tastes exactly like the After 8 chocolate mints. I like to make this cocktail in the winter months- especially around the holidays and for Christmas gatherings! Its lovely!

After 8 Cocktail-

1 shott creme de cocoa

1 shot creme de menthe

1 shot bailey’s

Shake with ice in a cocktail shaker- and serve in a martini glass!

Island Sunrise

This is a lovely, easy-easy-easy drink recipe I came across  with a friend while hanging out  at the hotel bar at Convention in Georgia! The bartender did not have a name for it- he made it for my friend who wanted something “fruity” and asked the bartender to surprise him. So, we named it ourselves- and here it is!

Island Sunrise

1 and a half shots Malibu Rum

1 pineapple juice to fill up your glass ( I go with an old fashioned glass – so about 6 oz)

a splash of grenadine – I add it last for the sunrise effect!

^ Made by yours truly on Saturday night!