Cinnamon French Toast Sticks Recipe

 My love affair with rediscovering french toast continues. Final week it was Apple French Toast, a pile of french toast dripping with self saucing stewed apple syrup. The week earlier than it was Parmesan French Toast (insanely scrumptious!). This week it’s french toast sticks – eat it together with your fingers (tick), tastes like cinnamon doughnuts however an entire lot more healthy (double tick)!

Cinnamon French Toast Sticks

I’m loving developing with recent takes on french toast! Rising up I all the time adored french toast but it surely was all the time the traditional model drowning in syrup. After I was in uni, I found how good it was to pile bacon onto it, and sure, nonetheless drown it in maple syrup. I used to name this a “Coronary heart Assault On A Plate”. This was earlier than the day when “candy and salty” grew to become all the craze and everybody I made this for had been doubtful till they took their first mouthful – then they had been transformed for all times.

I digress. Again to those French Toast Sticks. Two massive issues it has going for it:

1. Meals you eat together with your fingers. Want I say anymore?

2. Tastes like cinnamon doughnuts. I can’t admit to any of my associates that I secretly love cinnamon doughnuts, deep fried puffy goodness dusted with sugar. It’s on my listing of what I name “Soiled Meals”, meals that’s oh-so-bad-for-you-I-know-I-shouldn’t-eat-but-secretly-love. All through this weblog there isn’t any doubt that I shall be disclosing a lot of my favorite Soiled Meals. You’ll most likely be horrified. Or possibly not. Perhaps much more folks than I feel secretly love KFC Popcorn Chicken.

The important thing to french toast sticks which can be stiff sufficient to select up with out flopping is to make use of stale bread and to make use of a block loaf you’ll be able to lower your self into thick slices (the thicker the sticks, the much less they flop). That is the way in which I like my french toast sticks, however should you don’t have a stale block loaf, it nonetheless tastes simply as scrumptious utilizing pre-sliced sandwich bread, it would simply sag a bit if you choose it up.

I actually do suggest utilizing stale bread the place potential for french toast – any french toast. It makes an enormous distinction as a result of recent bread soaks up an excessive amount of egg combination – even should you dunk it in actually shortly – and also you’ll find yourself with french toast that’s soggy on the within.

This recipe solely takes about quarter-hour to make, and is tremendous straightforward. French Toast you’ll be able to eat together with your fingers – one thing that no child, massive and small, can presumably resist!

Cinnamon French Toast Sticks Recipe

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Serves: 2 Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 10 minutes 10 minutes

Nutrition facts: 332 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

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Ingredients

• 4 thick slices white bread, preferably stale (Note 1)
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk
• Salt
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon powder
• 3 tbsp butter
• Maple syrup to serve (optional)

Instructions

1. Remove crust of each slice, then cut each into 3 equal thick batons.
2. Combine the eggs, milk and a pinch of salt in a bowl large enough to roll the bread sticks in.
3. Combine the cinnamon and sugar on a plate.
4. Melt 2 tbsp of the butter in a large pan over medium high heat.
5. Roll the sticks in the egg mixture quickly (do not soak them), shake off excess and place in pan. Cook in 2 batches.
6. Turn to cook each side until golden.
7. Immediately transfer to the plate with the cinnamon sugar and roll to coat. It's important to do this quickly while they are hot straight out of the pan so it sticks.
8. Melt remaining butter and cook the remaining french toast sticks.
9. Serve immediately with maple syrup to dunk the sticks in.

Notes

1. Cut the slices thick enough so when you cut the crusts off then cut into 3 batons, the slices are thick, square batons about 1.7 cm / 2/3" thick.
French toast is best made using stale bread. Fresh bread soaks up too much egg mixture, making it soggy on the inside and your sticks will flop when you pick them up.
2. It is best to use a loaf so you can cut thick slices as the thicker the sticks are (and the staler the bread is), the stiffer the sticks are (ie. they won't flop when picked up using fingers).
3. Nutrition assuming this serves 3: