Vanilla-Almond French Toast, Fruit Topping, Bacon

Recipe Ingredients

		Bacon
1 lb	454g / 16oz	Applewood smoked bacon
1/2 cup	80g / 2.8oz	Dark brown sugar
		Toast
8		Eggs (large)
1 cup	237ml	Half-and-half
2 teaspoons	10ml	Vanilla extract
2		Salt
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Ground or freshly grated nutmeg
2 teaspoons	10ml	Ground cinnamon
3 cups	187g / 6.6oz	Corn flakes - lightly crushed
1/2 cup	46g / 1.6oz	Sliced almonds - lightly crushed
4 tablespoons	60ml	Butter
12		Challah bread 1 1/2" thick
		= (or soft "Italian" style bread)
		Medium or dark amber maple syrup - to pass at table
		Mint sprigs and edible flowers - suggested plate
		Garnish
		Fancy Fruit Topping
1		Navel orange - peeled, chopped (large)
12		Strawberries - sliced (large)
1/2		Blueberries
1/2		Raspberries
1/2		Blackberries
2 tablespoons	30ml	Sugar
1/4 cup	59ml	Orange liqueur
		= (Grand Marnier recommended)

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Arrange bacon on slotted broiler pan. Sprinkle with brown sugar and place in oven to bake until crisp, 20 to 22 minutes.

Preheat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat.

In a shallow dish, beat together with a wire whisk: eggs, half-and-half, vanilla, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon. In a second shallow dish combine flakes and nuts. Add 2 tablespoons butter to warm skillet. Place a cookie sheet lined with foil (for easy clean-up) near the stove.

Coat 4 to 6 slices of bread in egg, depending on the size of your skillet, then coat bread in cornflakes and nuts. Cook slices 2 minutes on each side and transfer toast to cookie sheet. Repeat with remaining slices and transfer toast to oven. Bake 10 minutes, with already cooking bacon.

While bacon and toast are in oven, combine fruit, sugar and liqueur in a serving bowl and reserve.

Remove toast and bacon from oven. Warm syrup in a small pitcher in microwave 15 seconds on high. Serve toast and bacon on plates with optional garnish of mint and edible flowers.

Pass syrup and topping at the table.

This recipe yields 6 servings.

Source:
30 MINUTE MEALS with Rachael Ray - (Show # TM-1E08) - from the TV FOOD NETWORK

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