Crunchy Vanilla-Almond French Toast With Fancy Fruit Topping, Sweet-N-Smoky Bacon

Serves: 2

Roxane Raynor

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

47

Spice

49

Sweetness

52

Sourness

43

mins

Prep time (avg)

4.4

Difficulty

Ingredients:

8 large

Egg

2 pinches

Salt

4 tbsps

Butter

2 tbsps

Sugar

Directions:

1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

2

Arrange bacon on slotted broiler pan

3

Sprinkle with brown sugar and place in oven to bake until crisp, 20 to 22 minutes

4

Preheat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat

5

In a shallow dish, beat together with a wire whisk: eggs, half-and-half, vanilla, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon

6

In a second shallow dish combine flakes and nuts

7

Add 2 tablespoons butter to warm skillet

8

Place a cookie sheet lined with foil (for easy clean-up) near the stove

9

Coat 4 to 6 slices of bread in egg, depending on the size of your skillet, then coat bread in cornflakes and nuts

10

Cook slices 2 minutes on each side and transfer toast to cookie sheet

11

Repeat with remaining slices and transfer toast to oven

12

Bake 10 minutes, with already cooking bacon

13

While bacon and toast are in oven, combine fruit, sugar and liqueur in a serving bowl and reserve

14

Remove toast and bacon from oven

15

Warm syrup in a small pitcher in microwave 15 seconds on high

16

Serve toast and bacon on plates with optional garnish of mint and edible flowers

17

Pass syrup and topping at the table