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French Toast with Banana & Walnuts@keelingsfruits

frenchtoast

Ingredients:

  • 4 fresh bananas, sliced
  • l 50g fresh walnuts, roughly chopped
  • l Maple syrup, to serve (optional)

For the French toast:

  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 100ml milk
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar
  • 4 slices of thick white bread, cut in half diagonally
  • 25g butter

Method:

Mix the eggs, milk and sugar in a shallow dish and beat well. Add the bread, then turn in the liquid until well soaked.

Heat half the butter in a large non-stick frying pan, then add 2 triangles of bread and fry on each side until golden brown. Then repeat the process with the next 2 pieces.

Put two pieces of French toast on each plate, cover with fresh banana slices, drizzle with maple syrup and then sprinkle with chopped walnuts to serve.

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Odlums Coconut Buns for baking with kids

Category

Baking with Kids

Cook Time15-20 mins

What you need:

  • 225g/8oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
  • Pinch of Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Odlums Baking Powder
  • 75g/3oz Butter or Margarine
  • 75g/3oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar
  • 50g/2oz Shamrock Desiccated Coconut
  • 1 Egg, beaten
  • 150ml/¼pt Milk

To Decorate

  • Fruitfield Raspberry Jam
  • Extra Shamrock Desiccated Coconut

How to:

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6. Lightly grease 2 flat baking trays.
  2. Sieve the flour, salt and baking powder into a bowl.
  3. Rub in the butter or margarine until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
  4. Add the sugar and coconut and mix well.
  5. Mix to a fairly stiff consistency with the egg and milk. Drop dessertspoonfuls of the mixture, spaced apart on the prepared tins. Makes about 12.
  6. Bake for 15-20 minutes until risen and golden brown. Remove from oven and transfer buns to wire tray to cool.
  7. Brush the top with jam and dip in the extra coconut.

http://www.odlums.ie/recipes/coconut-buns/