Sunday, April 15, 2012

Brioche French Toast with Warm Blueberry Compote

This is my second entry for this month's AlphaBakes...and it's a double whammy. This month's letter is 'B', so I give you homemade brioche French Toast and warm blueberry compote.
This was my first foray into bread making and I have to say the resulting loaf was a monster! I used this Brioche recipe and ended up with not one but two enormous loaves! The recipe said that it makes one large plaited loaf...however it suggest to plait it you should have 3 sausages of dough, each at 50cm each!! My oven isn't big enough for a half metre loaf, so I therefore decided to make two slightly smaller ones and baked them for around 35 minutes...they were still however humdingers!
Making the French toast and compote was rather easier and the result was a gorgeous combination of brioche, warm blueberries and a little Hagen Daz vanilla ice cream for good measure. This would be a perfect Sunday brunch! :-)
AlphaBakes is hosted by The More Than Occasional Baker and Caroline Makes. I'm already looking forward to next month...but lets hope it's not 'Z'!
Ingredients

2 eggs
4 tbsp milk
1 tbsp caster sugar
Drop of vanilla extract
4 slices of brioche
Butter for frying
Vanilla ice cream to serve

Blueberry Compote

100g blueberries
1 tbsp caster sugar
Squeeze of lemon juice

The French toast and compote is easy to make. Start with the compote, just pop the blueberries, sugar and lemon in a saucepan and heat gently. The blueberries will start to pop and release their juices, at this point you just need to simmer for 2-3 minutes to get a gorgeous compote.

For the toast, whisk up the eggs, milk, caster sugar and vanilla and pour into a shallow dish. Soak each slice of brioche in the eggy mixture. Warm the frying pan and melt the butter before adding the brioche. Cook until golden brown on each side. Serve warm, with the warm compote and a scoop of vanilla ice cream and you have yourself a rather decadent brunch! :-)

14 comments:

  1. Perfect loaf on your first try! Fantastic. Love to sample those yummies.

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  2. This looks lovely. I am a bit apprehensive of bread baking and hope to start soon with river cottage book

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  3. This is ever so inviting. My favourite breakfast treat!

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  4. mmmm this looks great for a first try at bread what a result - your are a natural - you will have to make more now!

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  5. Wow I'm sure I've said this before but you really never cease to amaze me. Thanks for entering these to AlphaBakes. Looks like you've been baking bread for ages - well done! I love french toast and the berry compote sounds delicious too. I'm also hoping that next month is not 'Z' although I have something in mind if it is :)

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  6. It sure does look like a total "pro"job. Wonderful brioche!

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  7. Oh wow, this sounds so lovely. I do a similar version with a raspberry coulis, but doing it with brioche is such a fabulous idea, and to make it yourself, so impressive!!

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  8. How delicious! Well done, this looks so inviting. I could eat this anytime. Always love brioche, so sweet & comforting xx

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  9. Wow that is impressive - looks delicious!

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  10. I'm sipping on some coffee, so this incredibly good right now!

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  11. I want this for my weekend breakfast! Have bookmarked and will make!! This is just my kind of thing :-)

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  12. You are so right! This looks like the Greek Tsoureki! Yummy!

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  13. Wow, I have never tried to braid brioche before, so very impressed with the resulting loaves. I'm always impressed with how resilient the dough is - it just keeps rising and rising and rising ;) Wonderful AlphaBakes entry...

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