Vegan French Toast

This recipe is from a friend of mine, Jackie Granzow Florence (thanks, Jackie!). I attempted these for the first time today and it turned out delicious! I'm quoting her recipe, almost verbatim.

The ingredients are shown below:


Ingredients:

• Unsliced, 1 day old, bakery bread (Jackie suggests Wegman's "W" bread)
• 3 tbsp amaretto liquor
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 tsp cinnamon
• 1 1/4 cup soy milk
• 4 tbsp brown sugar
• Earth balance butter
  

Directions:

1. Slice the bread into thick slices, if not already sliced.

2. Whisk together the soy milk, amaretto, vanilla, cinnamon, and brown sugar.


3. Pour a small amount of the mixture (in a large plate that is sort of like a bowl) and put one piece of bread in it to absorb the liquid. (add more slowly if needed, make sure it is not soaking to the point where it is dripping, but that it has enough to be moist.) Flip the piece and do the same for the other side. Set the piece aside and continue to do this until all the pieces have used up the mixture.


4. Preheat a non stick pan on medium to medium high. Put a few pats of the Earth balance on each piece, sprinkle with some more brown sugar and cinnamon and place it into the heated pan. Let it heat up for about 2 minutes, check to make sure it does not burn but it should get dark brown and a little crusty (while it is heating on the first side, add a few pats of Earth balance, brown sugar, and cinnamon to the side that is up). Once the underside looks right flip it and cook on the other side for another two minutes.

TIP: Before you flip the toast, you can add a small amount of soy milk to the hot pan after you have placed it in the pan, this just gives it a little more resemblance to real French toast and helps give it more coating.


8. OPTIONAL: Use fresh strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, mango, etc. as topping

Also by Jackie: This might sound sort of complicated and it is hard to get it perfect the first few times, but you will develop a technique and it is SO good! Good luck when you try to make it, I think you are going to love it!

Jackie was right, this was DELICIOUS!!

Enjoy!