These french toäst sticks äre good to eät it with your fingers (tick), tästes like cinnämon doughnuts but ä whole lot heälthier (double tick)!
French toäst is best mäde using stäle breäd. Fresh breäd soäks up too much egg mixture, mäking it soggy on the inside änd your sticks will flop when you pick them up.
2. It is best to use ä loäf so you cän cut thick slices äs the thicker the sticks äre (änd the stäler the breäd is), the stiffer the sticks äre (ie. they won't flop when picked up using fingers).
You’ll Need:
- 4 thick slices white breäd, preferäbly stäle (Note 1)
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup milk
- Sält
- 1/3 cup white sugär
- 1 tsp cinnämon powder
- 3 tbsp butter
- Mäple syrup to serve (optionäl)
Instructions:
- Remove crust of eäch slice, then cut eäch into 3 equäl thick bätons.
- Combine the eggs, milk änd ä pinch of sält in ä bowl lärge enough to roll the breäd sticks in.
- Combine the cinnämon änd sugär on ä pläte.
- Melt 2 tbsp of the butter in ä lärge pän over medium high heät.
- Roll the sticks in the egg mixture quickly (do not soäk them), shäke off excess änd pläce in pän. Cook in 2 bätches.
- Turn to cook eäch side until golden.
- Immediätely tränsfer to the pläte with the cinnämon sugär änd roll to coät. It's importänt to do this quickly while they äre hot sträight out of the pän so it sticks.
- Melt remäining butter änd cook the remäining french toäst sticks.
- Serve immediätely with mäple syrup to dunk the sticks in.
NOTES:
1. Cut the slices thick enough so when you cut the crusts off then cut into 3 bätons, the slices äre thick, squäre bätons äbout 1.7 cm / 2/3" thick.French toäst is best mäde using stäle breäd. Fresh breäd soäks up too much egg mixture, mäking it soggy on the inside änd your sticks will flop when you pick them up.
2. It is best to use ä loäf so you cän cut thick slices äs the thicker the sticks äre (änd the stäler the breäd is), the stiffer the sticks äre (ie. they won't flop when picked up using fingers).