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DOUGHNUT FRENCH TOAST

My weaknesses are mainly savoury - think salt and vinegar crisps or cheese and biscuits - but there are times when only a doughnut will do. This craving can get desperate late at night when the shops are shut, and even if they weren't, none of them sells the kind of doughnuts I dream of. This is my way of assuaging my appetite, appeasing my need or, perhaps more accurately, feeding my addiction. Hot chocolate on the side is always worth considering, but just - just! - by itself this is sublime succour.

You can, if you like, turn this into a dinner party doughnut-allusive dessert by whizzing up 150g hulled strawberries, 4 tablespoons icing sugar and a spritz of lemon juice in the blender, to make a sauce to pour or puddle over.

Recipe posted by Nigella

Ingredients

  • Express Recipe
  • Nigella Recipe
  • Vegetarian
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 60ml full-fat milk
  • 4 slices from a small white loaf or 2 slices from a large white loaf, each large slice cut in half
  • 25g butter, plus a drop of flavourless oil for frying
  • 50g caster sugar

Method

Serves: 2
  1. Beat the eggs with the milk and vanilla in a wide, shallow bowl.
  2. Soak the bread halves in the eggy mixture for 5 minutes a side.
  3. Heat the butter and oil in a frying pan, and fry the egg-soaked bread until golden and scorched in parts on both sides.
  4. Put the sugar on a plate and then dip the cooked bread in it until coated like a sugared doughnut.
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  • I cooked this this morning...just devine :) Loved them with the strawberry sauce. That is My husband and I loved them...kids weren't so sure...but their loss....lol lol lol :)

    Posted by magic007 on 29th Jun 2011 at 7.36

  • This reminds me of a very typical sweet we have in Spain for Easter. It's called Torrijas and the ingredients and process are very similar. We usually soak the bread slices in milk first and then in egg. Then we fry the bread in olive oil and finally we add sugar or honey. It's delicious and so simple to prepare! My children just love it.

    Posted by helenasr on 6th Sep 2011 at 13.32

  • DELICIOUS fantastic i love this recipie

    Posted by 19CherryBlossom98 on 5th Oct 2011 at 14.02

  • AMAZINGGGG.... cant have enough, getting a bit obsessed!

    Posted by beckyhughes93 on 30th Oct 2011 at 22.45

  • Yum!! I always make this when a need something sweet, so good!

    Posted by hannah_louise on 8th Nov 2011 at 9.15

  • Awesome.... The vanilla does the trick!!

    Posted by Donamari2 on 4th Dec 2011 at 18.03

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