Summary

Preparation Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 20 min (Depends on how much space you have in your frying pan!)
Servings: 4
Meal type: Brunch
Grocery Cost: $10.00 ($2.50 each)

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Ingredients

• 1 loaf challah, sliced and left out to dry ~ $ 5.00
• 1 1/2 cups whole milk or half-and-half ~ $ 1.79
• 6 large eggs ~ $1.99
• 1 pinch salt, to taste
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• butter (for frying)
• oil (for frying)
• raspberries, for garnish ~ $1.00
• blueberries, for garnish ~ $1.00
• icing sugar, for garnish

Instructions

1. In a bowl, whisk eggs and milk.
2. Add honey and vanilla.
3. Add salt.

4. Place slices of  bread in the egg mixture and let soak about three minutes each side.
5. Meanwhile melt one tbsp of butter and oil each in a large frying pan.
6. Transfer challah to pan and cook 3 minutes on each side or until nicely browned.

7. Add a little more butter for each round of bread.
8. If you are not ready to serve it yet, transfer french toast to oven until rest of meal is complete.
9. Garnish with blueberries, raspberries and icing sugar on top.

Quick Notes

Looking back at the instructions, I realized I didn’t soak the french toast long enough, leaving it for only about 30 seconds on each side. Not sure if this made a difference – I found the french toast not as “egg” tasting as I like, which I blamed on the cream. I will also have to try putting orange zest in next time (I didn’t this time because I didn’t have oranges on hand) as I’ve read other reviews that says this makes all the difference!
Also, the first batch I made I didn’t cook enough and it was very soft still – make sure it’s nice browned and crisp on both sides.

Variations

I actually didn’t have Challah bread, so I picked a similar egg bread loaf laced with cheddar cheese. It was GOOD. How could you go wrong with good bread, cheese and eggs? I was really tempted to put in cinnamon in this french toast as I really like cinnamon, which I refrained from doing this time, but I can see that also going nicely.

Result

The result was a very pretty looking French Toast from a quick and easy recipe. The bread was delicious (I also love eating it by itself), so it made the French Toast taste good. I think that using a good quality bread makes all the difference with French Toast. I thought the egg batter had a bit too much cream in it – I prefer a stronger, egg taste, but that could be due to me not soaking the bread long enough. I think I will have to make this again and find out for sure!