Chocolate Chip Banana Bread French Toast Muffins with Cinnamon Streusel.

You know how there are times when Friday just needs a cookie?

Yeah, well sometimes Tuesday just needs a little cinnamon and chocolate breakfast action. Cause there are days where coffee just isn’t enough, and you need a little boost from the really good things in life.

AKA chocolate and cinnamon.

But let’s be real, the honest reason for the french toast muffins?? A really stinkin good reason to get outta bed. Yes, <–Truth.

Sometimes… ok, all the time, it’s kind of hard to get myself outta bed. Come on, you know you are right there with me. I have like five gazillion alarms set to go off, and well…I hear NONE of them! It’s quite an amazing thing actually. But french toast waiting in the fridge to be baked?!?!?

YESS. That gets me right out of bed. <–No exaggeration.

Also, has anyone noticed that as the mornings get cooler and cooler, and we move closer to fall, that it’s especially hard to move from the under the covers (which umm, I have three of… yeah, three heavy DOWN blankets that I huddle under at all times…it’s the best)? Cause my 30 degree mornings are brutal. Like I really just want to hide under the covers till it hits at least 40, and then drink a steaming cup of coffee because well… I drink coffee now… and it’s everything.

Double also, am I making you totally want to crawl back into bed? SORRY. Clearly that’s what I want to do at this moment because all my muffins are gone. 🙁

But the chocolate chip banana bread french toast muffins!! They’ll get me out of bed, and with a BIG smile! 🙂

Hello, there is challah bread, chocolate and cinnamon streusel involved, how could that not make a person happy to be up?!? AND, they are french toast muffins, which is just beyond cute, which makes them ten times better! Cute food is the best! And, and, and…you can make these the night before so that literally all you have to do in the morning is bake them. If you live alone, I highly recommend doing this on Sunday morning. Then you have THE BEST breakfast for the entire week….or maybe the best midnight snack, for when the cravings hit? I mean, hey, if you live alone embrace it right?!?

Here’s the deal, seeing as these cute little muffins are meant to be breakfast and not dessert, I tried my best to make them as healthy as possible….shh, don’t tell anyone about the streusel though, cause well, that NEEDED a little butter and a little sugar. BUT, there is walnuts in the streusel, so that kind of balances things out, don’t cha think??

The muffins themselves are full of all good things, whole wheat challah bread, bananas, eggs, honey and even some flax. So you see, health food! Plus, anything with banana bread means kind of healthy, right? At least that’s the way my mind sees it, so go lets with it. Remember it’s Tuesday, you need the extra deliciousness to get you through the rest of the week.

Trust me, you do.

OK, and lets talk about the whole banana bread thing. I didn’t use actual banana bread because I really wanted these french toast muffins to be light, not dense. So instead I used my whole wheat challah bread and a banana “batter” (so mashed bananas mixed with eggs, milk, vanilla and cinnamon!). Honestly, these little muffins could not have turned out better.

All they need is a little drizzle of maple and a pat of butter and then…YUM.

And maybe some extra banana slices too. I kind of love bananas though AND they are pretty much the only fruit I like to pair with chocolate.

Did I even mention the chocolate?? I know, I know. The best french toast muffins! YUMMERS!

Tuesday brunch date?? <–DO IT.