Brunch at Home - French Toast with Vanilla Ice Cream and Caramel Sauce

Anyone else miss spontaneous brunch dates with friends, or just me? Sigh, I know I do! Whats says brunch better than some yummy french toast, a go to choice of mine when dinning out for brunch; Christopher's in Covent Garden have theee most delicious french toast I've ever tried. As you can see my brunch blues got the better of me the other day, so I attempted to making my own french toast. Easy and quick to make, topped with icing powder, a scoop of delicious vanilla ice cream and homemade caramel sauce (recipe will be uploaded soon). This recipe produces a single serving, but can easily be doubled/tripled etc. Usually you'll see French toast being made with thicker breads such as brioche or challah, but this recipe is designed to make do with what most people will have at home.

Recipe 

Ingredients: 

• 2-3 slices of stale/dried bread

• 1 large egg

• 1 tbsp of sugar

• 1/4 cup of whole milk (or any milk of your choice is fine)

• 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract

• 1/4 tsp of freshly grated nutmeg

• 1/8 tsp of cinnamon

• Butter/oil for frying

Topping

• Powdered Sugar
• Scoop vanilla ice cream
• Homemade Caramel Sauce

Method

1. This step is optional and only necessary if, like me, you do not have any stale bread lying around. If so, place 3 slices of white bread onto a baking sheet and place into an oven preheated at gas mark 6. Bake the bread for 2 minutes on each side, you want the bread to be dried not toasted. Then remove from the oven and set aside to cool. 
2. In a wide bottom bowl, add egg and whisk. After that, add sugar and whisk until combined. Then add milk and mix until combined.
3. Next add cinnamon, freshly grated nutmeg and vanilla to the mixture and whisk.
4. Place bread into the custard mixture and allow to coat lightly, once coated turn over the bread and repeat then place to the side ready to be fried. Repeat this step with the remaining bread.
5. In a frying pan (big enough to fit 2 slices of bread) add butter and oil to the frying pan at medium heat, allow the butter and oil to coat the pan entirely.
6. Place the two pieces of bread on the pan and cook for 1 minute on each side until golden. Once all slices of bread are cooked, decorate with whatever toppings you like, i topped mine with icing sugar, vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce.
7. Last Step, bon appetit!  

This recipe turned out really good, 10/10. I may have to start hosting brunches at home after lock-down.

Let me know in the comments what you like to top your french toast with and whether you're thinking of using my recipe to make your own french toast, would love to know how it went.

- Kristen x