Christmas Month (Recipe of the Week): Baileys French Toast

Holiday brunch plans?  This decadent french toast recipes sounds too good to be true and just perfect for the holidays.

Do you know that some people in some parts of the world call french toast, eggy bread, gypsy toast or poor knights of Windsor?

The earliest known reference to french toast in in the Apicius, a collection of latin recipes dating to the 4th and 5th centuries.  A 14th century German recipe used the name "poor knights".  In French cooking it's called pain perdu or "lost bread".

Most recipes call for day old bread to be soaked in a mixture of beaten eggs, milk or cream with added sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla.  Alternatively, the bread may be soaked in wine, rosewater or orange juice.

In Portugal, France and Spain it is a traditional Christmas dessert or breakfast.

I think dipping it in Baileys sounds wonderful (save some for your coffee too).

Merry Christmas!

Enjoy!

Stacy

Baileys French Toast

Ingredients:

Whipped Cream

1/2 oz Baileys original Irish Cream

4 oz whipping cream

2 teaspoons confectioners sugar

French toast

2.5 oz Baileys original Irish cream

2.5 ounces whipping cream

1/2 teaspoon vanilla 

2 eggs

2 slices of thick bakery-style bread

1 teaspoon butter

fresh raspberries, chocolate chips, optional

Directions:

Whisk together the 1/2 oz Irish cream, 4 oz whipping cream and 2 teaspoons confectioners sugar.  Chill and put aside for topping finished french toast.

Combine in a shallow plate, 2.5 oz. Irish cream, 2.5 oz whipping cream, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and two eggs.

Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat.  Dip the bread into the cream/egg mixture and fry the piece of bread until golden brown on both sides (about 3 minutes per side).

Top with pre-made whipped topping and if desired, fruit and or chocolate chips.