Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode of Laura in the kitchen I want to show you
how I make my waffle French toast. It is so easy to make. I absolutely love making it
for breakfast on weekends, especially if you have people coming over because it looks like
you have really put a lot of effort into it but you really didn't. It is just incredibly
simple and easy. The ingredients you'll need are very few. What I've got here is some bread
- you can use any bread you want. I am using my homemade honey oat bread because it's just
delicious - so I am using that. You need a couple of eggs, some brown sugar, a small
little pinch of cinnamon, vanilla, and milk. That's it! You'll also need some melted butter
and your waffle maker or your waffle iron. I've got mine preheating so it is going to
be ready for us whenever we are ready to use it. Alright, I've got a little baking dish
here and in it I am going to put my eggs. I am going to give those a quick little whisk
and I am going to add in my milk. This is pretty much my standard - you know, my standard,
what am I trying to say? Please help me - French toast! I'm just, I'm going to make a smaller
batch of it. I'm not using three eggs and the full amount of milk. I am going to use
my brown sugar and vanilla. I love brown sugar, you could use regular granulated sugar in
your French toast if you want to, I have always happened to use brown sugar so that is why
I use that. And we also need a small splash of vanilla. This is like the flavoring of
things. Now, what you can do is you can really use any kind of bread that you want with this.
Traditionally, you use an eggy bread to make French toast like a challah bread or brioche.
I've got my honey oat bread that you guys have seen here before and it is just so good
because it's sweet yet slightly salty. It's just - it's perfect. And it absorbs this just
beautifully and its been sitting on the - it's a couple of days old. So, it's a little stale
which makes for great French toast. All I am going to do is I am going to take a couple
of slices at a time and I am going to just dunk them in there and let them sit there
for a few minutes until - not a few minutes, a few seconds on each side. You really want
that custard to be soaked up by the bread. So I would say about fifteen seconds on each
side. You let it sit and kind of soak it up. Now, I am going to do two slices at a time
because my waffle maker - the little squares are a bit on the smaller side. I just make
sure I brush it with some melted butter and this is a heat proof spatula so it's not going
to melt. Just make sure you brush it so it gives you flavor and it also prevents it from
sticking, which is always good. But for anything we just want flavor, right? I'm being greedy
here! Shocking, I know. Alright I'm going to move this closer to me. I just put it down
like so. You can see my slices are a bit bigger, but that's okay. I'm going to close this up
and I am going to let that cook until the light goes green. In the meantime, I am going
to soak up the rest of my bread. Can I fit this in here? Yes I can! Just taking my last
batch - oh look at that. They are amazing. They small amazing. Essentially what you made
is French toast but you cooked it in the waffle iron. All I need right now is some maple syrup
and I would be in heaven, but I don't have any maple syrup right now so this is going
to have to do. I don't have it near me but I'm excited. It's going to be hot. Also, what
you can do with the rest of them if you don't plan on eating them all in one sitting - like
tonight it's just my husband and I and we're not going to eat all six of them or five over
there. I am going to - How many are there? There's five in total, I can't even count.
I am going to just freeze them and then when I want them I just take them out and pop them
in the toaster or you can even put them in a hot oven. Either way, you get them thawed
and have homemade, you know, waffle French toast whenever you want it. So good! It gets
like crispy so it's really delicious and it's not as soft but it's just traditional flavors
of French toast but it's got a little more texture to it and a bit more flare. Laurainthekitchen.com
will have the recipe written for you. Let me know what else you want to see in the waffle
maker because there's so many different things we could do with it and I am going to show
you other things you can do using it but if there's anything you want to see in particular
let me know down below. I hope you've enjoyed spending time with me and I will see you next
time. Bye!