Thank you for humoring my love for toasted bread this week. Thank you for understanding my love of melty, spicy bagels and smashed avocado on baguettes.
We can cream butter and sugar into cakes and cookies until the cows come home (not literally), but sometimes it’s just nice to celebrate something simple. Sometimes we just need an excuse to buy a jar of chocolate hazelnut spread. I hope that this week has inspired your toasted bread adventures, and I hope this weekend finds you with ample amounts of soft butter, cinnamon, and sugar.
I love you (and toast) most sincerely.
I was positively OBSESSED with white bread as a child. All of my bread growing up was seeded and whole wheated and I marveled at the white bread sandwiches in my friends’ school lunches. Oh man.
These days I enjoy white bread in the form of spelt bread. I love LOVE Rudi’s Organic Spelt Bread (thanks from a tip from my friend, Andrea). It toasts up so fluffy crisp. Dreams come true!
Today’s bread toppings include peanut butter, honey and bananas in symphony. There’s also chocolate hazelnut spread and rainbow jimmies in unison. French Toast is totally just warm, soggy, soaked toast… and we love it all the same. Granulated sugar is also 100% allowed on buttered bread, as long as its accompanied by ground cinnamon.
So much. So good. Let’s do this!
Your five-year-old-self is about the freak out. Chocolate Hazelnut Spread and Rainbow Jimmie Sandwich. It’s breakfast/snack time/I-can’t-even-deal-right-now toast. It’s the party animal of the toast kingdom.
This classic Peanut Butter, Banana, and Honey combination is child-like and sophisticated.
I imagine it’s the sort of toast that Kate Spade eats every morning before she goes into work to make really cute shoes. (I know that’s totally not real).
Cinnamon Sugar Toast might be the king of all toasts. It’s simplicity versus deliciousness is mind-boggling.
This might actually reign as the best thing I have ever eaten… ever.
Enjoying one slice of French Toast, properly soaked and properly grilled is best done standing in the kitchen, in four bites, while hot coffee brews.
On Toast: White Bread
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Chocolate Hazelnut Spread with Rainbow Jimmies
Toast a slice of bread. Spread generously with chocolate hazelnut spread and sprinkle with rainbow jimmies. High-five yourself, then ENJOY!
Peanut Butter, Sliced Banana, and Honey
Toast a slice of bread. Spread with smooth, all-natural peanut butter. Top with sliced bananas. Drizzle with honey. Sprinkle with raisins is you’re feeling extra sweet.
Cinnamon Sugar Toast
Toast a slice of bread. Spread with room temperature salted butter. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon sugar mixture. Enjoy immediately.
French Toast
In a medium shallow bowl whisk together one large egg, three tablespoons of whole milk, a teaspoon of granulated sugar, and a pinch of salt. Soak bread slice in wet ingredients, flipping to coat and soak. Heat a griddle over medium heat. Melt a bit of butter over the griddle. Fry toast until golden on either side, flipping once. Serve warm with maple syrup.
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The cinnamon sugar toast remids me of my grandma! And it tastes soooo good!
Holy cow – I”m so excited to see another toast lover. Toast is my favorite thing to eat – any way I can get it. And I just about peed my pants with the chocolate and jimmies picture! Sounds like the perfect afternoon snack to me! =)
When the honey soaks into the crannies of the toasted bread and the peanut butter starts melting and sliding around…that’s irresistible. I’ve never been one to turn down a good cheese toast either.
I’ll definitely be sprinkling jimmies on my toast with Nutella after this! Toasted bread really *is* an adventure! I’m always having mine with tea and a story of some kind :)
Hello Joy!
I love toast too! toast and butter!!
In Hindi, bread and butter is called bun maska (fun fact) :)
I also love your photographs. They’re very beautiful :)
God bless
My toast mainstay — every morning with a cup of coffee — is organic peanut butter and “sandwich” dill pickles. (And nope — not pregnant and never have been.) Sometimes if I have a banana around, I’ll throw that on the toast too, and that there is my favorite of all.
Yep: whole grain toast with peanut butter, dill pickles, and banana.
Friends and co-workers have just marveled at this combination, but I don’t really understand why it’s weird. Crispy chewy bread + salty sticky peanut butter + crunchy vinegar pickles + creamy sweet banana . . . It’s an insane and delectable combination of flavors and textures.
If you haven’t tried this combo, please do. If you like all of these items INDIVIDUALLY, you will like them together.
One of my all time favorite, and rare, treats when coming home from kindergarten and first grade, while living with my maternal grandparents, was a slice of toasted bread with butter and sugar. Eaten while warm so everything gooed up and melted. Sometimes, toast and a piece of Milka chocolate. To this day the flavor brings back the smells and feelings of back then.
I loved your comment about Kate spade :) I, like you, was caged in the nutty, whole wheatty bread world as a child. I’ve learned to love it, but white bread has always fascinated me. Your child-inspired ideas are so fun to read :)
I’m glad that my fav cinnamon-sugar finally made it into someone’s popular list! Years back, when I sprinkled sugar on my buttered toast, I was given the ‘look’ of being weird…so thank you Joy! At least if it were coming from you, the weird sugared toast would be perceived as trendy. hehe
Have enjoyed the toast series but this white bread deserves verbal communication. It brings back fond memories of childhood sleepovers with the few kids who woke up early rambling into the kitchen to toast white bread (never at my house so it was a glorious treat) and smother it multiple times with butter, sugar and cinnamon.
thanks. wendy
Cinnamon sugar toast on white bread was the breakfast of my childhood. always 2 pieces sliced in 4 triangles and stacked on top of each other. every time haha. Have you ever tried hot chocolate toast? I had it at a friends house once, it was like cinnamon sugar toast but instead of cinnamon and sugar, she sprinkled part of a hot chocolate packet on the buttered bread and stuck the whole thing in the oven on broil for a minute, so good! I have discovered cinnamon sugar toast is also even better when broiled-it caramelizes :)