Yummilicious Cinnamon Toast (An awesome treat for a lunch box)

Call it Cinnamon Toast, French Toast , Eggy Bread or anything else it is just as delicious and you cannot just stop at one. At least I can't. I have loved this bread snack since I was about 9 or 10 and now that my son loves it just as much I am glad to make it for the two of us (or sometimes even for hubby if we leave any for him) on a Sunday morning or sometimes as a lunch box treat.


It's the easiest thing to make, almost embarrassingly easy actually to blog about but I love it so much that it has to have a place on my blog. You can make it as simple or as rich as you like. And make it with plain bread or a speciality bread, the choice is yours.


This time I used Brioche instead of plain ordinary white bread. Brioche is a sweet buttery french bread that tastes awesome even when eaten all by itself with a strong cup of coffee or it is one of the  best bases for something like this Cinnamon toast or a rich Brioche Butter Pudding. It's available easily in the bakery section in the form of a loaf or there are packs of 6 small brioche loaves.


I used a combination of Cinnamon and Vanilla in my toast which went beautifully together, but to give it an Indian touch you could use Cardammom or Nutmeg  powder and a bit of Saffron essence. These spices taste great too. My mom used to make it with Cardammom.




What you need:
6 thick slices of Brioche
2 eggs lightly beaten
1 cup milk
4 to 5 tspns sugar
1/2 tspn cinnammon powder,
1 tblspn vanilla essence
Some sugar to sprinkle on top
Butter or oil for lightly frring the toast


Method:
Mix together the milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla  and pour this mixture out into a  shallow dish . This makes it easy to dip the bread slices into the batter and soak the mixture.
Heat a frying pan or a skillet or tawa and  coat it generously with butter or oil.
When the pan is hot, dip  a slice of bread on both sides into the egg milk mixture  and put it on the pan. The pan should be hot enough so that there is a sizzling sound . Lower the heat to medium after a minute so that the bread cooks to a beautiful golden colour without burning.
Turn the toast over to the other side and cook this side until golden and crisp as well.
Do all the slices in the same way.
While each toast is still hot sprinkle sugar on it.


That's it . Your Crispy Golden Cinnamon Toast is ready for you to enjoy.

Spicy Christmassy Carrot Muffins

Spicy Carrot Muffins, originally uploaded by Anupama 72.

Hey people!! I am really getting into the Christmas mood. After the Brownies here's my next christmassy creation.

Here's how it goes:

225gms self-raising flour, 2tspn baking powder, 150 gms muscovado sugar, 50 gms walnuts, 100gms carrots grated, 2 eggs, 1tsp cinnammon powder, 1/2 tspn clove powder,150ml sunflower oil

Preheat the oven to 180degC and place paper cups in a muffin tray,alternatively if you do not have paper cups just grease and dust the muffin tray.

Procedure:

Sift the flour and baking powder twice . Beat the eggs . Then mix all the ingredients in a large bowl . The mixture should look lumpy. Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin tray. Fill each muffin mould upto 2/3rds. Bake for 15 to 20 mins.

Let cool a little and then unmould the muffins by just inverting the tray and gently tapping on it. Dust with icing sugar.

This is my Christmas Offering to Nandita's WBB8 Christmas Special