My dad taught me how to make cinnamon toast when I was young. My wife learned a different style. And then puts peanut butter on it.:eek:
In recent years I’ve changed from my dad’s patented 5-pats-in-the-corner-and-middle pattern to just spreading room temperature or spreadable butter across the whole slice of bread, then dusting with C/S mixture and popping it in the toaster oven on “broil”.
What’s your style? Do you follow a recipe for mix, or just wing it like I do?
What other fun, quick, or unique snack or breakfast treats do you like to make? They can be plain, or something that uses prepared items like Pillsbury products in a can.
Two parts sugar to one part cinnamon, in a shaker bottle. Toast the bread, spread immediately with room temp butter (preferably salted) and then sprinkle CS mix on top. Eat right away.
I never thought about mixing brown sugar in. Thank you runner pat, I’ll give that a shot.
I make my own cinnamon/sugar mix instead of buying premade. It is rather inconsistent though since I don’t measure. Just pour in sugar, shake cinnamon and mix until it looks about the right color.
white bread laid out on broiler-safe pan, put pat of butter on each slice of bread, sprinkle heavily with white sugar and lightly with ground cinnamon, broil until bitter and sugar bubble, serve immediately. check underside of toast for butter bleedthrough, which means thzt somebody loves you, of course.
I never much cared for cinnamon toast, but I love brown sugar toast. Spread room temp butter on UNTOASTED white bread, sprinkle with brown sugar (some larger lumps are desirable), then broil until the unbuttered parts of the bread are browned and the sugar is brûléed. The bread with the butter remains soft so you have a mix of textures. Sooooo good.
On the rare occasions when my mother made cinnamon toast, she’d cream butter, sugar (or sweetener), and cinnamon together while the bread was toasting in a pop up oven. Then she’d spread the mix over the toast. I had no idea that this wasn’t the norm until after I was an adult.
My mother never used the broiler for toast, though my husband’s mother did. Of course, my husband’s mother had 8 kids and 2 adults to feed at breakfast.
My mother DID use the broiler to make what we called cheese toast…just bread with a slice of cheese on it, put under the broiler until the cheese was all melted and bubbly. This works very nicely in a toaster oven, where you can keep an eye on it and pull it out when the cheese just starts to brown in spots, like freckles.
I like the method where the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon are creamed together first. Spread on bread and bake until the bottom is browned, so it’s toasty on the bottom, kinda gooey in the very thin middle, and that butter/sugar crisp on top. I also toast my bread by buttering it first and pan frying it, so much better than a toaster.
Use two paper plates. Pour a large amount of cinnamon/sugar mixture on well-(melted)-buttered toast. Allow it to soak in, then shake off excess onto plate. Then you can fold the plate like a funnel and pour it on the next slice of toast. Repeat as necessary, and save the runoff cinnamon sugar for the next time. (It will have some toast particles in it, so don’t save it forever.)
I came up with this procedure at about age 11. The most important part is the butter. Make sure it melts into the toast, from edge to edge. Any dry spots on the toast at all will be empty of cinnamon and sugar when you pour off the excess, and crunchy to boot.
I’m kind of digging the pan-fried, brulee recipes here. But this cinnamon toast reminds me of being a kid, and the gourmet versions don’t.
Put me down as another that creams together butter, sugar and cinnamon. Try adding a few drops of brandy, and spread it on already toasted bread - the really nice thick ‘texas toast’ type of bread.
Also try making cinnamon and sugar cream cheese for bagels.
Gah! how can you premix it? It’s so easy to make on the spot.
My recipe is this. Spread butter or margarine thickly over a slice of bread. (Lightly salt if the butter is unsalted.) Sprinkle enough powdered cinnamon onto it so that you can’t see any butter. Lightly sprinkle sugar over it. Toast in the toaster oven until the bottom of the bread is crispy and the sugar has been absorbed. Let cool enough to eat.
toast the bread in the pop up - spread with butter and sprinkle with c/s until butter cannot absorb more… and/or slice a banana and put 9 banana circles on one of the toast pieces and top with other piece of toast…while eating put 2 more slices of bread in the toaster… what I wouldnt give for a banana sandwich right now,yum