French Toast Recipe

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Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: toast slices 8 pc; jam 4 tbsp; eggs 3-4 pc; Cream 2 tbsp; butter 40 g; powdered sugar/ icing sugar 2 tbsp; cinnamon 4 pinches; mint 1/2 bunch

French toast Recipe Image — French toast recipe image © Thomas Sixt food photographer.

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Today I’ll show you my French toast recipe.

In Germany we know the baked toast slices as poor knights.

The Swiss call the baked toast Fotzelschnitten…

In Austria the sweet, filled white bread slices are called Pofesen.

These are many names for a fasting dish.Prepare French toast for breakfast, serve the sweet slices as a main course during Lent.

French toast is a great cake substitute for coffee gossip.

In gourmet restaurants French toast, prepared with brioche, has already been eaten as Desssert.

Here are my cooking tips for preparing fantastic French toast.

I wish you good luck and a good appetite!

Table of Contents

1. Recipe French Toast
2. Nutritional Values
3. Shopping List for French Toast
4. Filling Tips for French Toast
5. Failsafe Tips for French Toast
6. More Ideas for Baking

1. Recipe French Toast

Following my recipe with the exact quantities.

I wish you success and look forward to your questions and comments…

French Toast

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 2

Calories 555

Preparation Time 10 Min.

Cook Time 10 Min.

Total Time 20 Min.

Simple guide to prepare French toast.

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Ingredients

8	pc	toast slices (I like to use toast or brioche or gluten-free toast)
4	tbsp	jam (I like to use plums or apricot jam)
3-4	pc	eggs
2	tbsp	Cream
40	g	butter (or clarified butter)
2	tbsp	powdered sugar/ icing sugar
4	pinches	cinnamon
1/2	bunch	mint (Optional as refreshing decoration)

Instruction

Preparation step 1

Vorbereitung

Place the toast slices or brioche slices on a kitchen board.

Preparation step 2

Prepare eggs

Mix the eggs with a little cream.

The cream makes the French toast softer and more pleasant in taste.

Preparation step 3

Prepare pan

Place a coated pan on the hob and heat.

Add the butter or clarified butter to the pan.

Preparation step 4

Add Eggs

Coat the toast slices with egg.

Preparation step 5

Fill toast

Apply the jam to the middle of the toast slices, then close with a second slice of toast.

Press the sides down well so that the filling is well sealed.

Fill all French-Tost bread slices accordingly and prepare.

Preparation step 6

Prepare

Quickly dip the prepared, filled French toast slices into the egg-cream mixture and immediately place in the hot pan.

Preparation step 7

Bake out

Bake the French toast slices at medium heat on both sides until light brown.

Preparation step 8

Serve

Remove the baked French toast slices from the pan, halve and arrange.

Serve the French toast sprinkled with powdered sugar and cinnamon.

You can also sprinkle pistachio chips to taste.

Enjoy your meal!

2. Nutritional Values

3. Shopping List for French Toast

You need for the French toast in my way the following ingredients …

A baker’s toast or a brioche made of yeast dough
Cream
Eggs
Jam to fill
Butter or clarified butter
Icing sugar and cinnamon
Mint as decoration

If you find a brioche at the bakery or supermarket, be sure to try the French toast with the yeast pastry.

This is very, very delicious!

Butter in a pot while cooking. — Heat butter in a pot, prepare nut butter.

Close-up jam from apricots — Apricot jam ready on the spoon, decorated with lavender

4. Filling Tips for French Toast

I know two varieties of French toast: Filled or unfilled.

4.1 Fill French Toast

If you want to fill French toast you can use jam or chocolate cream.

Place two slices of bread on the work surface, brush the bread halves with whisked egg.

Then center the desired filling on the bread slices and fold together.

Pull the filled bread slices quite quickly through the egg-cream mixture and put them directly into the hot pan and bake.

French toast: Spread the toast slices sparingly with egg and place the jam, jam or chocolate cream in the middle of the toast. Then close and press down the sides well. © Thomas Sixt Food Photographer

4.2 French Toast Unfilled

In this variant, you pull the bread slices directly through the egg-cream mixture and then quickly place the bread slices in the pan.

After baking, sprinkle the French toast with icing sugar and cinnamon.

Pistachios look good in colour…

Then serve maple syrup, jam, chocolate cream, fresh fruit or yoghurt as an extra.

cutting white chocolate — Cut white chocolate

5. Failsafe Tips for French Toast

If you bring toast bread or brioche with eggs and cream together, the bread immediately absorbs full.

This quickly makes the bread unstable and can break easily.

Therefore the following is important:

Please pay attention to the temperature when baking the French toast.

Connoisseurs swear by the use of butter, but sometimes it gets too hot in the pan.

As an alternative to butter, you can simply use clarified butter.

Butter lard is heat resistant and tastes just as delicious!

For French toast, make sure you have all the ingredients ready before moistening the toast, preheat the pan and work quickly!
Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt