Jacques Pepin is a famous chef from before the days of Food Network. Somehow his videos popped up on my Facebook and I have been loving them. He posted a French Toast recipe that sounded FABULOUS. So I had to try it.
French Toast is made with bread, eggs and milk. So he took a short cut and used melted French Vanilla ICE CREAM! French Vanilla ice cream is made with cream and eggs, so that seemed good to M. Pepin. Who am I to argue with a Master Chef?
French Toast
1 1/2 cups of ice cream, room temperature
6 slices bread
butter
One of the tricks to this is to use low heat. I have an electric griddle and set it at 250 ˚ My usual temperature for French Toast is 350˚.
Melt the butter in whatever pan you are using. Place the bread in the melted ice cream and coat both sides.
Cook slowly in the melted butter, checking until the edges start to brown.
I placed a new pat of butter on the griddle and flipped the French toast into it.
Cook until both sides are brown and serve warm.
I chose to use a small bit of maple syrup, because that is how I serve French Toast!
It was really good! I probably won't make it this way every time, but I will definitely make this for guests. Once we go back to having guests. And I can't wait for that day.
