French toast

Serves 4

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time:
25 minutes  

Ingredients  
150ml maple syrup 
12 slices of streaky bacon 
3 eggs 
120ml double cream 
80ml milk 
1tsp vanilla extract 
1 tsp ground cinnamon
20g sugar 
4 slices of fresh bread - we like pecan or walnut

Method  
Turn the oven on to 180c.

Put the bacon rashers into a non-stick frying pan and cook for a couple of minutes each side until golden.  Put into an oven dish and drizzle over a couple of tbsps of maple syrup.  Put a second dish into the oven for the bread when cooked.

In a dish that will snugly sit 2 slices of the bread,  mix the eggs and then add the cream, milk, vanilla, sugar and cinnamon and mix.  Put 2 slices of the bread into the eggy mixture for roughly a minute each side.

Turn off your oven. 

In a large non-stick frying pan on a medium high heat, melt a tsp of butter with a tsp of oil.  When the butter has melted add 2 slices of the bread and cook each side until golden - this will take around 5 minutes per side.  

When cooked, put into the oven and repeat with the other slices.

Top the bread with the sticky bacon.  Add a generous drizzle of of maple syrup and a small knob of butter. 
- This was based on a recipe on the BBC Good Food website.