This Well-known Chef Simply Taught Me the Best Hack for Making French Toast Style Even Higher

Few cooks are extra universally famend and beloved than Jacques Pépin. While the French chef has labored in high eating places, cooked alongside Julia Child on TV, and received many awards, he’s not too fancy for a superb hack. Case in level: Pépin’s mind-blowingly easy method of creating French toast. It solely requires two components — bread and ice cream. (Yes, actually!)

The method, posted in a video by “American Masters” on PBS in 2022, is completely ingenious. We’re unsure why it’s at present trending on social media, however we’re completely happy to find the tip — even when it’s years later.

Pépin calls it “ice cream French toast” as a result of the one two components are bread and melted ice cream. Instead of dipping bread in a combination of eggs and milk, Pépin melts some French vanilla ice cream on a plate by placing it within the microwave for 15 seconds. Then, he soaks a slice of bread within the melted ice cream till it’s totally saturated and able to prepare dinner. The secret is ensuring the bread absorbs as a lot of the melted ice cream as potential.

From there, he cooks the French toast the way in which you usually would — with some butter in a frying pan over low warmth for a few minutes on both sides.

“I made my French toast here with the vanilla ice cream,” Pépin says within the video. “But of course, the beauty of it, you can do it with strawberry ice cream, chocolate ice cream. It would be a bit different for a French toast.”

After a couple of minutes, Pépin flips the French toast. Then he tops it with slightly little bit of maple syrup and a few banana slices, and serves it proper on the plate with the remaining melted ice cream.

The recipe has been noticed throughout Instagram, and creators have taken it a step additional by melting a whole carton of ice cream and dipping a slice of bread into it as a substitute of utilizing a plate. 

“That is ingenious! No need to beat eggs; just dip into thawed ice cream!” wrote one commenter. “This is such a great idea!” stated one other.

Now all that’s left so that you can do is to determine which taste of “ice cream French toast” you need to strive first!

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