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Mother's Day: French Toast Waffles

Source of Recipe


Jim Coleman, "Flavors of America"



List of Ingredients



• 5 large eggs
  
• 1 cup milk
  
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
  
• ½ tsp almond extract
  
• 2 tsp baking powder
  
• 1 Tbsp sugar
  
• ½ tsp kosher salt
  
• 8 slices day-old Challah bread, cut 1 inch thick
  
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• Warm syrup and/or powdered sugar, or other favorite toppings
  






Instructions



1. In a mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, extracts, baking powder, sugar and salt. Transfer mixture to a 9- x 12-inch shallow baking pan. Cut each bread slice into 4 equally-sized squares (32 pieces in all). Place bread slices in egg mixture, turning once, until well soaked.
   
   
2. Preheat your Belgian waffle iron according to manufacturer's directions.
   
   
3. Place four pieces of soaked bread (equals one slice) in waffle iron, one in each grid, leaving a 1-inch space in the middle, and cook until the waffles are done according to manufacturer's directions. Serve with warm syrup and/or powdered sugar or other favorite toppings.
   
   Makes 8 waffles.