Dear Reader, I am a terrible sleeper. I wake up at the slightest noise and love to sleep long and deep so earplugs are my best friend. I love to sleep in on the weekend and if I have an early appointment, I am always slightly resentful. Even if it’s something monumental, I’ll still inwardly kvetch at the idea of rising early on a weekend. So the Queen wants to meet me? “Humph, aren’t we almost a republic?” I’d say. “I hope there are some sandwiches” I’ll mutter to myself. I should add that apart from when I wake up, I try to conduct myself with alacrity but there is a time between waking and my first cup of tea where I am quite frankly quite surly 
French Toast is a staple weekend meal at our place. Not only does it allow me to use up the bread that is past its prime but it can be done in 10 minutes or under which for someone that loves to sleep in and potter around quite a bit before making food, means that I can get my brunch eaten before 12 o’clock. I feel somewhat embarrassed at eating brunch after 12noon.
This is a quickish recipe with an extra step from the rum syrup. You could use maple syrup or honey but if you want a really special syrup, I would urge you to try this rum syrup which we both really quite smitten by. In fact, I might just make bottles of this to give to friends this Christmas as you can do it in a matter of minutes and adds to the coconut flavour of the French toast.
So tell me Dear Reader, what time do you sleep in until on weekends?
Coconut French Toast With Rum Syrup
An Original Recipe by Not Quite Nigella
Serves 2
- 4 slices stale bread
- 2 extra large eggs or 3 small eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or paste
- 1/3 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup dessicated or shredded coconut
- butter and oil for frying
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 4 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 tablespoons rum
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or paste
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What a gorgeous and decadent breakfast Lorraine, I just love it. I will make your rum syrup for sure. I usually make french toast using Panettone, sometimes with chocolate chips but mostly with the dried fruit, it is scrumptious!
Sadly I wake up at 6:30 on weekends; it’s really annoying because I can barely wake up at 7:30 on weekdays!
So you met the Queen?
Oh dear, I am soo not a morning person, so your first paragraph describes me in the morning…:) Even if I am up and on my feet, I am not awake until like 11 AM, you know what I mean… Your French toast looks so delicious, I wander why I don’t make it more often than every other year?!
I just read the title of this post in my RSS feed and said “OMG” before clicking over
. French Toast with coconut and rum syrup is worth waking up for!
Beautiful! Those French toasts must taste heavenly. What a great combination.
Cheers,
Rosa
What a great way to start the day and I think rum syrup with coconut French toast would be wonderful. I’m okay in the mornings but my Arabella – well she’s as savage as a buck-rat for the first few hours of surfacing from her room. We have a ‘no talkies’ policy xx
Lovely French toast, but I especially love you chubby bottomed egg cup! I can’t ever imagine you surly..
I’m going to try that, I love coconut. I get up with the sun.
Im like you…definitely not a morning person!! This post was perfect for this morning as I was super grumpy after being woken up by the boyfriend’s alarm at 6am so he could go for a swim. Now I can’t get back to sleep so I think I might try out your French toast recipe now! Thanks NQN!
I’m with you on this Lorraine. I should be kept from the general public until I’ve had at least one cup of tea – or preferably two.
What a dangerous recipe to read before breakfast! Maybe this will become my breakfast now- I like the idea of starting my day with rum
I can only sleep in to about 8, but I’m willing to try harder if only the family would let me!
Delicious Lorraine! I will be making this one tmrw… Hopefully before 12 ; )
What a way to wake up in the morning my friend (or to come home to in the afternoon!)
This French toast looks fantastic – your flavour twists just do it
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Ooh! Now THIS is what I call a deliciously decadent breakfast – and I love how your wee egg cup has feet!
OooooOOO! Rum syrup?!
ps, I love that cute eggcup! Haha your egg looks like it’s about to run away…
YUM…..you have my complete attention Lorraine! My all-time favourite breakfast French Toast, now with a twist. Love the idea of the Coconut & Rum syrup and will definitely be making it.
I am a Night Owl, so I suffer with early mornings and think there should be a law against it,lol. Alas, as hard as I try to sleep in my early bird husband (he has horses to tend to) makes sure that it’s ‘ Mission Impossible!’ I know, I know, there are so many great reasons for early starts:
you can get soooo much work done, you’re full of energy, you get to see the sun rise, it’s invigorating but try telling that to my body clock when I never bed before 12 or 1am!
Now back to that scrumptious French Toast.
Yum! Yum! Yum! I haven’t had my breakfast yet hence the drooling….as you can tell I take advantage of a Soccer-less Saturday morning and try & sleep in till 9.30! You reckon you can (e)mail me some of those delicious Coconut French Toasts?LOL …Once again Lorrz…you’ve outdone yourself!:)
Fantastic idea! I was looking at a recipe only yesterday using coconut with rolled oats and thinking what a brilliant idea that was. Time for brunch I say
Your photos make me want to just swipe a runny drip of rum sauce trickling down your caramelised french toast with my finger.
I really want to try this.
Your gift idea just might come in handy too! Thank you.
Have you found a particular variety of bread that compliments the coconut and rum combination???
Yum I just love French toast. I was up at 5:30am today for the opening ceremony but I’ll sleep in tomorrow
Omggggggg,
I am having an eyegasm.
I will try this on a Sunday morning. MMmmmm. YES!! I love the idea of coconut in Anything!
btw, I loooooooooooove to sleep in, Lorraine…In fact, I am SO upset. I just heard my job will be starting 1 hour earlier. This is HUGE in my life. HUuuuuGE. I need to anticipate EVERYTHING so much earlier…and that SUCKS. I stay up LATE so this is almost the end of the world!
HOpe you are well. Xxxxxx
I love your egg stand.
it looks so cute!
Hmm, i normally wake up at 6am. Sometimes 7.30am. but never later than that
This sounds divine, i must try that rum syrup!
we are up early every day mainly due to the kidlets but regardless i’m generally an early riser
I’m a night owl….morning hibernation….need smell & taste of coffee to become human….
I have never heard of a french toast with rum and coconut…what a lovely combo. I can already sense the aroma….yummm….
Coconut French Toast with Rum Syrup? OMG, Lorraine, you’ve outdone yourself yet again. Looks scrumptious.
I’m not one to sleep in, though I wish I could. I’m just an early riser no matter what.
I rarely get to sleep in. One of these days life will be better and I can sleep past 6:30 and maybe even get a day off.
Love the toast!
Am so going to have this for breakfast on my upcoming weekend!
Yummm, great flavour combo! Coconut, butter, sugar, rum… Lovely photos and recipe
Weekends are made for sleeping in, lazing about and eating yummy food!
Delicious to read!
I used to sleep until 10 on weekends, but then 8.5 years ago had Claire. 8.30 is now a sleep in. Thankfully Claire quite likes to sleep until 8 on weekends, so it is not too bad. I have just adjusted for reduced hours of sleep by going to bed earlier. I now can’t stay up much after 10pm without feeling shattered. I hope to return to my wild ways when she’s a teenager and sleeps all the time!
Your egg cup is soooo cute! I love it. I wish I had the luxury to sleep in, but kids always wake us up by 7.30am (latest!).
Ooh. This looks so yum!
Spay Lady! I, too, am an avid ear plugs wearer for I fail monumentally at sleeping. High five!
Everything here looks amazing! If we lived anywhere closer to you than we do, we’d be begging you to take us.
That rum syrup looks so tempting & your coconut French toast looks to die for!
Really insanely delicious food! Waw! xxx
It’s so weird, whenever I have an appointment or somewhere I have to be on a weekend morning, I have such a hard to getting up, but when I have absolutely nothing to do..I rise at like 6 am..like now! I love sleeping in on weekends..if only I could start actually sleeping in when I can!
That said..that is the most gorgeous french toast I have ever seen..the caramelization and rum syrup makes for such a mouth-watering sight. I would get up for this ANYTIME of the night or early morning!
Hello Sunday breakfast! Thanks NQN for this luscious breakfast dessert !!
LOVE this recipe
I like sleeping in on weekends too but it depends if I’m doing anything that day ~ If i’m going out to a cafe or something for brunch or to the farmers markets hehe i’m willing to wake up earlier ~
Can’t wait to try this recipe!
Thanks Lorraine!
I love to sleep in on weekends but I would get out of bead early for a bite of this french toast recipe. Yum!
genius idea adding coconut! i usually just have mine plain with banana or strawberries and maple syrup. So this would be a new one to add to my list! mm
I’m a very bad sleeper, any sound can wake me up, and it results very difficult for me to sleep again. I also can’t sleep too much, at 6:00 my eyes are open and I just wanted to sleep again, with no success of coure.
My husband likes frech toast, but I just realize that I didn’t make it for a very long time.
Great brunch, I love the look of the rum syrup and there’s nothing like coconut and rum, is there? Great for Sundays, our day for lying in. GG
I’m not a big breakfast eater but I love french toast. Adding your lovely rum syrup must really make it special.
Wow, this looks amazing! Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, especially when it involves french toast!
This is such a delicious sounding way of doing French toast! I am going to make it straight away, but as I have banana’s to use up mine will be served with banana just warmed in the rum syrup briefly! Thanks so much for sharing this delicious breaky idea!
Oh, and me before my first morning coffee can be quite an unpleasant experience also
Yum that looks like a great start to the day. We take it in turns to sleep in on the weekend so Saturday i’m up about 6:30 & Sunday I sleep until 8:30 or 9. It’s my favourite day of the week
Sleeping in is wonderful. You’ll find me still in bed till 10am.
coconut in french toast sounds like an excellent idea – rum is less agreeable to me – though I think the idea is often worse than the taste in cooking! Fast breakfasts sounds excellent to me – I would sleep in more if only a small girl would allow
How come I almost feel like I should have some of this french toast even if I don’t like french toast?
Nom nom nom this looks worth getting out of bed for.
I’m not much of a sleep-in girl unless I had a late night the night before. In that case I could sleep for hours especially if it’s raining and cold outside!
Oh wow, this looks divine! I love weekend breakfasts – this recipe might just come close to your awesome eggy crumpets
I don’t usually sleep in, but I do laze around on a weekend morning if I can – the day always starts with 2 cups of tea
OMG.. that sugar caramelised on the outside really got me.. Looks amazing
I think this is the better way to have french toast
Rum and coconut?! yes please! Sounds like a pina colada
I’m going to make french toast with coconut soon. Great idea for a coconut lover like myself. =) The rum syrup over your french toast looks amazing!
mmm.. buttery and delectable!
Wish I could say that the French toast is a staple at my place every weekend! I love french toasts and the rum syrup sounds really fantastic.I should try that some time instead of the usual maple syrup!
i haven’t slept past 5 am for as long as i can remember. it’s true.
LOVE this french toast, lorraine!
Best treat breakfast ever! A good reason to wake up early for
I’m a sucker for regular french toast but this is just nirvana! Looks so caramel-y…
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A nice twist to an old classic. My mum used to always dust mine in sugar, and cinnamon but this sounds more healthy? Surely! lol
Another definite winter bookmark for me
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