Each piece crisps and browns so well in the oven you’d think it was done in a frying pan.
Fantasy French toast
11
Makes
14 pieces
Ingredients
- 1 large baguette
- 2 52-g Cadbury's candy bars , broken into squares
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 tsp ground cardamom or cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp butter , melted
- store-bought chocolate sauce , optional
- 1 tbsp orange zest , optional
- icing sugar
Instructions
- Slice baguette into 11/2-in (3.5-cm) thick rounds. Using a serrated knife, cut through the middle of bottom crusty side of each round to make a slit large enough to hold a square of chocolate. Widen slits and tuck a piece of chocolate into each. Place in a 9×13-in. (3-L) baking dish, bunching bread close together to fit. In a bowl, whisk eggs with milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and salt. Pour over bread. Turn bread over to fully soak up egg mixture. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 450F (230C). Generously brush a large wide baking sheet with some melted butter. Space soaked bread on baking sheet so pieces aren’t touching. Bake in centre of oven for 8 min. Remove from oven, brush tops of bread with remaining melted butter, then turn slices over. Continue to bake until crusty and deep golden, 8 to 10 more min. Place toasts on plates. Drizzle with chocolate sauce, sprinkle with peel and icing sugar.
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 159,
- Protein
- 4.4 g,
- Carbohydrates
- 20.6 g,
- Fat
- 6.4 g,
- Fibre
- 0.8 g,
- Sodium
- 279 mg.
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