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Banana maple French toast

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Serves: 4
Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 5 mins
Total time: 15 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Cheap as chips

Thick slices of bread dipped in a cinnamon spiced batter, fried in butter until golden and served with a delicious warm chocolate-flavoured maple syrup this is the ultimate sweet treat for breakfast or brunch. Use a chunky farmhouse loaf and make sure the slices are quite thick – if they’re too thin the bread will soak up too much of the batter and go a bit mushy. Slices of sweetened brioche bread can be used instead of white bread but omit the sugar from the batter. For a lighter dish serve the toast with natural yoghurt instead of chocolate syrup.

Ingredients

2 eggs
150ml milk
25g caster sugar
1tsp ground cinnamon
25g butter
4 thick slices white bread
6tbsp maple syrup
50g plain chocolate, grated
2 bananas, peeled and sliced

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Scatter over a handful of blueberries, raspberries or sliced strawberries instead of the sliced bananas, if liked.

Method

Place the eggs and milk in a bowl and whisk together thoroughly. Whisk in the sugar and cinnamon.
Dip the slices of bread in the egg mixture making sure they are completely coated. Heat a large knob of butter in a heavy-based frying pan until foaming and add the soaked bread slices. Fry for 1-2mins on each side until golden brown.
Meanwhile, place the maple syrup and chocolate in a small and heat gently, stirring, until the chocolate has melted into the syrup.
Serve the French toast topped with the sliced bananas and drizzled with the warm chocolate syrup.

By Nichola Palmer

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This fruity twist on the traditional family teatime treat Parkin, is sure to go down well. Easy and quick to make, the combination of fresh apple with warming cinnamon and mixed spice is a real treat. It is best made a few days in advance to allow the flavour to mellow and become deliciously moist

Serves: 10
Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Cheap as chips

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To freeze-wrap the cold cake in a freezer bag, seal and freeze it for up to 1 month

Ingredients

100g butter
125g soft brown sugar
1 egg
175g self-raising flour
50g oats
1tsp mixed spice
2 apples, peeled, cored and chopped
1tsp orange zest
1tsp cinnamon

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/Fan 180°C/Gas mark 6.
Beat together the butter and sugar, until pale and light. Add in the egg and beat again.
Fold in the flour, oats and mixed spice.
Line a square baking tin with parchment. Tip in half of the mixture and sprinkle with half of the chopped apple, half of the orange zest and half of the cinnamon.
Top with the remaining mixture and scatter with the remaining apple, orange zest and cinnamon.
Bake for 30 minutes, until cooked.

By Anna Berrill

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Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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Baked apples are a classic way to use up seasonal Bramley apples. The addition of the crumble topping gives the soft, sweet apples a nice crunch. Spiced with cinnamon, this is a great combination of two childhood puds. Perfect served with a dollop of vanilla ice cream or splash of custard

Serves: 6
Prep time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 1 hr
Total time: 1 hr 15 mins
Skill level: Easy peasy
Costs: Mid-price

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Ingredients

6 eating apples, cored
50g sultanas
1tsp cinnamon
3tbsp plain flour
4tbsp demerara sugar
60g, hazlenuts
50g butter

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/Fan 180°C/gas mark 4.
Put the apples into a baking dish.
Mix together the sultanas and cinnamon and sprinkle into the apple holes. Pour a little cold water around the apples and bake for 30 minutes, until the skin is loose.
Put the flour, sugar and hazlenuts into a food processor and whizz until the nuts are coarse. Add the butter and whizz again until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
When the apples are ready, sprinkle with the crumble mix, pressing down. Bake again for 30 minutes.

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Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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