ALMOND FRENCH TOAST
Ingredients
Almond Paste Filling
- 20 g (4 tbsp) almond flour you can make it by grinding peeled almonds very finely
- 25 g (2 tbsp) brown sugar
- 30 g (2 tbsp) unsalted butter melted
- 15 g (1 tbsp) almond milk you can substitute it with any type of milk you like
- Few drops of almond extract
French Toast
- 2 thick brioche bread slices better if your brioche bread is old and slightly dry.
- 1 egg room temperature
- 6 g (1/2 tbsp) brown sugar
- 60 ml (1/4 cup) milk room temperature
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- About 2 tbsp of sliced almonds
- 1/2 tbsp unsalted butter for the pan (optional if you use a non-stick pan)
- Powdered sugar for topping
Instructions
Almond Paste Filling
- Mix together all the ingredients until well combined and get an almond paste.
- Place into a piping bag and set aside.
French Toast
- In a medium size bowl mix the egg, milk, brown sugar, vanilla until combined. Set aside
- Using a small serrated knife, cut a pocket at the bottom of every brioche bread slice, drive the blade about 70% into the bread and be careful to not completely cut the slice through.
- Fill the pocket with the Almond Paste. Set aside.
- Heat over medium heat a non stick pan with 1/2 tbsp of butter for few minutes.
- Slightly dip the stuffed French Toast into the egg mix and drain the excess, then coat one side with sliced almonds.
- Low the heat to medium-low and cook every side of the french toast until golden brown (about 3-4 minutes).
- Remove from the pan and serve immediately sprinkled with powdered sugar on top.
Notes
Hello, I am Valentina! Welcome to How Tasty!
I am an Italian girl in love with baking and cooking. I’ve been raised in a cooking family, baking since I was a little girl and learning from my mom and my professional chef grandma.
I created the Youtube channel How Tasty in 2017 to share with you my passion.
You don’t need to be a professional cook to follow all my recipes thanks to the video tutorials and the tips & hints you can find here.
Let’s cook!
Tips:
For the best French Toast, you need a great bread. I suggest to use a Brioche Bread for this Almond French Toast recipe: you can choose a good quality store bought one, or you can make my homemade Brioche Bread recipe: you don’t need a stand mixer to make it, it’s easy and incrediibly soft!
Mostly if you bake a brioche bread for making french toasts, I suggest to bake it some day in advance: if your brioche bread is a bit dry and old, your French Toast turns out amazing!
I suggest to cut a thick brioche bread slice and cut a poket on the bottom to fill French Toast with the Almond Paste filling and do not spread the filling on a thin bread slice and top it with another bread slice, like a sandwich.
Thanks to the poket method, the filling won’t ooze out from the toast while cooking.
Quickly soak your French Toast into the egg-milk mix: it shouldn’t turn out too much soaked.
For this reason it’s better to use a slighlty dry brioche bread, because it abosrbs more liquid without becoming too soggy.
