French toast with caramel

Total: 40 min. | Active: 30 min.
vegetarian

Ingredients

for 4 people

Caramel sauce
3 tbsp milk
150 g soft caramels, finely chopped
Egg mixture
eggs
3 dl milk
1 pack vanilla sugar
½ tsp cinnamon
350 g zopf bread, cut into slices approx. 2 cm thick
French toast
2 tbsp clarified butter
50 g pecan nuts, coarsely chopped

How it's done

Caramel sauce

Bring the milk and caramel to the boil in a pan, stirring until the caramel has dissolved.

Egg mixture

Beat the eggs, milk, vanilla sugar and cinnamon in a wide dish. Place the slices of zopf bread in the dish in batches, leave to soak for approx. 5 mins. Turn the bread and leave to soak for a further 5 mins.

French toast

Heat the clarified butter in a non-stick frying pan. Reduce the heat, fry the slices of bread in batches for approx. 3 mins. on each side until golden brown. Plate up the French toast, sprinkle with the pecan nuts. Drizzle the caramel sauce over the top.

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