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French toast with honey
How many ways are there to make French toast? A few, if you’re a bit on the conservative side; a lot, if you enjoy playing with different combinations of ingredients. I’ve tried mixing milk with sugar, I’ve tried stuffing the bread slices with ham and cheese, there’s the clubhouse variation of the stuffed French toast and, not too long ago, I tried using sweetened condensed milk in lieu of fresh milk and sugar. A few days ago, I tried another combination — milk and honey. I made use of the cookie cutter too. The result — flower-shaped French toast with honey.
The idea of using a cookie cutter is from Nigella Lawson. I don’t normally bother with “presentation” but we had too much bread in the house a couple of days ago and I figured I could use the trimmings to make bread crumbs. So, I used an entire loaf of bread to make my flower-shaped French toast. Then, I toasted the trimmings in the oven until quite dry and processed them into bread crumbs.
To make the flower-shaped French toast:
1. Using a flower-shaped cookie cutter, cut out flower shapes from the center of each slice of bread.
2. Whisk together two eggs, 3/4 to 1 cup of milk, a pinch of salt and some honey (taste the mixture as you pour in the honey so that you only add as much as you taste buds prefer).
3. Dip both sides of the cut out bread in the milk-egg-honey mixture.
4. Fry in hot butter until golden brown, flipping the bread over to brown the underside.
French toast don’t excite the kids too much anymore but the flower-shaped bread raised their interest about five notches higher. But then again, perhaps it was the honey. I’m really not sure — I only know they really enjoyed the flower-shaped French toast for breakfast a couple of days ago. 
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French toast with honey is how my mum does it (ooh nostalgia). I think I’ll make it for breakfast sometime this week - I’ve been missing my mum’s cooking!
I’m amused that you make so many western inspired dishes, although I’m aware of Filipino history, I love Filipino food, however, and enjoy the things you write! More home-style (your style of course) Filipino dishes please.
ms connie,
i have to try french toast for breakfast for Tristanne. It’s not that she’s a picky eater, it’s just that she’s not too keen on eating sandwiches. I tried a bear shaped-ham and cheese sandwhich for breakfast but she picked the ham and cheese out and left the bread behind..these days, i find myself serving her cereals, oatmeals, pancakes and fried rice, sopas or lugaw if i make them the night before, but being a kid as it is, she gets bored eating the same old all the time, so i guess i should serve her something new tomorrow morning! thanks for the idea!
wow. how cute. will make this, too, and dust some powdered sugar!
wheee!
Very clever idea. Will try this sometime. Thanks Connie
I made this for breakfast today and I used M&S wildflower honey. It’s sooo yummy!
Thanks, Connie!
I haven’t tried french toast with honey, but it sounds tasty. I’m sure that if I use the cookie cutters my 6 year old son will just gobble it all up. He will certainly love the shapes.
[...] however, was an exception. I woke up with hubby and actually made French toast, inspired by Sassy’s recipe. Woody was stunned he could barely eat. But yes, he eventually devoured the toast. I woke up [...]
Works better than sugar, right, Redge?
Bill, yes, I bet. Too pretty for kids to resist.
hi tita connie, i was searching for a chicken sopas recipe on your site and this is the only page i got since the word “sopas” was on one of the comments… did i just miss it and not find the recipe? i pretty much know the basic recipe, just curious to know your version… thanks! it’s been quite rainy and gray here in san francisco and it reminded me of those days in manila when we would wake up asking yaya to turn on the radio to check if classes were cancelled… if they were we would request chicken sopas hahaha yum!!! those were the days. now i want to introduce this dish to my two year old…
mich, sopas means soup and there must be thousands of recipes for chicken soup. I have a few in the archives.
I don’t understand what you mean by the “basic recipe” though.
oh sorry for the vague “basic recipe” thing… i was looking for chicken sopas that has milk in the recipe. i think it originally has carrots and cabbage although my yaya used to put only carrots. it basically is a chicken soup, but from what i understood, chicken “sopas” was more the name of the soup rather than a synonym. but then again, maybe i have my facts wrong. ;p
mich, Oh, I know what you’re referring to. I just made some last night. I’ll be posting it within the day.
thank you! hahahaha i realized after the fact that, yes, there is a LOT of chicken soup recipes… i was craving so much that I was focused on THE one and only chicken sopas…
Ah, so you have seen the entry…