Most recipes for French toast will tell you to dip your bread in custard before cooking, but France has a tip to ensure that your toast isn’t served heavy and soggy. Instead, everything is uniform, with the custard seeping into the bread.
“I fork my bread and then, I put it in the toaster…Fresh bread doesn’t make good French toast,” France told Meghan. “It’s lovely, but it doesn’t make good French toast because you want the bread to soak up the custard. So, I like to dry it out just for a minute. It’ll soak it up better. When you fork it, it means it’s going all the way through.
“I hate a French toast where it’s got custard on the outside and then it’s just dry bread on the inside.”
France double dips his homemade French toast, first in an egg mixture combined with half-and-half, whole milk, cinnamon and powdered sugar and then into shredded coconut. The cooked toast is garnished with fresh fruit, butter, powdered sugar and maple syrup.