Thursday, February 28th Food

French Toast with Whole Wheat Hearth Bread
I used the leftover whole wheat hearth bread to make french toast for breakfast, along with a couple eggs.  I cut the bread thick (1/2" - 3/4"), made the custard of 2 eggs, almond milk, cinnamon and vanilla. Served with maple syrup, it was ok.  The bread wasn't sweet enough.  When I made the second batch for the kids, I added maple syrup to the custard.  They all said they liked it, and they ate it all.
 I cooked it on the baking steel.  It heated up fairly quickly.  The over-easy eggs cooked pretty well on it.  The scrambled was harder and cooked too fast.  It works if you need it to, or just don't want to wash 2 things, but they are better cooked in a skillet.

Chocolate Mousse Cream Horns (Huck)
Huck saw this as a challenge on the British Baking Show, and has been dying to make Cream Horns ever since.  Its basically puff pastry baked into a cone shape and filled with something.  Huck rolled foil, wrapped the store-bought pastry around it and baked it. 
Then melted chocolate and dipped the tops of the cones in it. 
The mouse was:
4 oz dark chocolate
4 eggs, divided
Mix the yolks into the melted chocolate.  Then, in a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form.  Then fold the chocolate mixture in.  Pipe it into the cones and let set for a few hours. 
They were pretty good! 

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