Bullseye Breakfast Toast

Bullseye Breakfast Toast…Egg in a Frame…Buzzy Egg…Sunshine Toast…Wink Eye…

Depending on where you come from, this breakfast dish could be known by one or more of almost 50 different names. In our family we call it Bullseye Breakfast Toast, but you might call it by any one of these different names:

Whatever you do choose to call it, Bullseye Breakfast Toast is a classic breakfast dish that is easy to make at home or at the campsite!

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Who doesn’t love food cooked over a campfire? Actually, we know a lot of people who don’t and we just have to feel sorry for them. Because we love to cook over a campfire, especially in cast iron. There is just something so delightful about the smoky aroma and taste cooking anything over a fire creates. These bullseye breakfast toasts showcase that beautifully.

What we love about Bullseye Breakfast Toast:

• Simple ingredients
• Easily customizable
• Make one at a time or a bunch all at once

The Ingredients for Bullseye Breakfast Toast:

• Bread (a thicker bread works really well for this)
• Eggs (we have used chicken and duck successfully)
• Butter (or something to keep your toast from sticking)

The Process for making Bullseye Breakfast Toast:

• Generously butter your bread on both sides. And when we say generously, we mean generously. Seriously. If you think you’ve put enough butter on it, you might want to add a little more.
• Cut a circle (or other fun shape) out of the center of the bread. We like to use cookie cutters for this to make it more festive.
• Place the bread, and the cutout, on the skillet over a medium heat and let it toast until golden.
• Flip the bread over and add some butter in the center. Crack your egg in the center of the circle.
• Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, until the egg is set on one side. Flip and cook an additional minute to set the whites.
• Remove to a plate and serve with breakfast meat and/or fruit.

FAQ and How to Customize:

Q: What type of bread do I need to use? Can I use something else?

A: When I plan, we use a thick slice bread known as Texas toast. However, if we haven’t gone grocery shopping with this in mind, we use any bread we have in the house. Our standard bread is a whole wheat sandwich bread.

Q: How do you cut the hole in the bread?

A: We started off using a shot glass to create a round hole in the center of our bread. Other options include using a biscuit cutter, a donut hole cutter, or a knife. However, our favorite method of cutting the hole these days is using a smaller cookie cutter themed to the time of year.

Q: What can I use to season the dish?

A: What flavors do you like on your fried eggs? We always use salt and fresh ground pepper. We might use red pepper flakes. Friends of ours drizzle some honey on theirs. It really depends on what you enjoy eating on your eggs.

Q: How do you get the egg to cook all the way through?

A: We are a family who enjoy our fried eggs over easy, so we typically cook ours for 2-3 minutes and it is perfect. If you prefer an over medium or more egg, we recommend both covering the skillet with a lid and cooking for a longer time. However, it might take some trial and error for you to find your perfect egg.

Q: We don’t have a cast iron skillet. How else could we make it while camping?

A: If you have pie irons you are in luck! It is actually really easy to make this one in a pie iron and bonus is that you don’t have to worry about breaking your egg when it comes time to flip it over and cook the other side because you are flipping the pie iron and not the toast.

Suggested Side Dish:

If serving for breakfast, include some breakfast meats such as bacon or sausage and some fresh fruit. If you are enjoying breakfast for dinner, we recommend some good quality tomato or avocado slices as well. Or, live dangerously and do all of the above no matter what time of day!

Equipment Needed:

• Cast Iron Skillet OR Pie Iron: We typically use our cast iron skillet over our camp stove and our pie irons over the fire. Just in case you were trying to decide which one to use.
• Cutting board and knife/cookie cutter: You will need some place to create the hole in your bread.
• Spatula: For flipping the egg and toast when cooking in a skillet.
• Heat resistant gloves: If you are going to be working around a fire, at some point you will probably get burned. These gloves can help prevent that.

More Breakfast Recipes to Enjoy:

• Dutch Oven Dutch Baby
• Ham and Cheese Hash Brown Foil Packs
• Pie Iron Omelets

Bullseye Breakfast Toast takes a somewhat ordinary sounding (read boring) breakfast and turns it into some festive fun!

Using only a handful of basic ingredients, you too can whip up a delicious breakfast suitable for leisurely mornings, either at home or while camping. Feel free to make them over the fire, on a camp stove, or in a pie iron. What do you call it in your family?