Brent and I headed to my family reunion on the last weekend of July and on the last day we went to a restaurant in Ellendale called the Fireside. I ordered their cinnamon roll French toast. HOLY MOLY!! Amaaaaaaazing!
I took a knife and cut some cinnamon rolls that I had purchased from the grocery store in half (they came in a big plastic container, I also tried to scrape most of the frosting off).
For the batter, I just made the same batter that I made when I made the banana bread French toast. I like the lightness of it and also the flavor the spices give it.
I dipped the toast into the egg and cooked it on the "crust" sides first. I did this because it seemed to cook faster and the left over frosting would caramelize as it cooked. This was really awesome and really messy all at the same time.
Aaaaaand, the finished product. Served with super cheesy eggs!
It made much more, but we were so excited to try it out that I had forgotten to take a picture until I was cleaning up the table. Whoops!!
If I were to do anything differently I wouldn't purchase "fried" cinnamon rolls from the bakery and I would try to Google a recipe that I could make from scratch, making my own little "paste" of brown sugar, cinnamon and butter to spread over the dough before cutting it into rolls and baking it.
The fried-ness of the rolls made it hard for it to absorb on the crust side of the toast. I'd also be able to avoid the mess that I had with the caramelized maple frosting mess that was all over my spatula and pan. When I was done cooking and the toast I grabbed my measuring cup and filled it with water and poured it into the hot pan. It pretty much lifted all of that melty sugar up off the spatula and my pan.
All in all... It was really good. We had left overs and had it this morning for breakfast :) Yum! :)
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