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really really good french toast

i've tweaked this french toast recipe over the years and now it tastes so special. the key is to use really good bread!
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Ingredients  

  • croissant toast
  • 5 eggs
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • 1½ cup milk
  • 1 splash of orange or pineapple juice
  • 1 tb orange zest
  • 1 tb honey
  • 1 tb vanilla bean paste or extract
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp cloves
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp salt

Instructions 

  1. preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.
  2. in a large shallow bowl, whisk all the ingredients together. for extra gooey french toast, soak as many slices in the egg mixture for 2-3 minutes, turning once.
  3. heat 2 tbsp butter in a large saute pan over medium heat.
  4. add the soaked bread and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side. make sure not to flip until the first side is nicely browned.
  5. to keep warm, place the cooked french toast on a sheet pan.
  6. i love to serve with warm maple syrup and blueberries or caramelized bananas when i’m feeling extra ambitious. to make them, just slice up a banana, toss in sugar and cook in a pan until golden.

Notes

i usually wing it and don’t really measure the ingredients out, but i like the egg to milk/cream ratio to be pretty creamy versus yellow/eggy.