The 5-Star French Toast Jacques Pepin Makes Using Melted Ice Cream
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By BUFFY NAILLON
While it isn't typically a breakfast staple, celebrity chef Jacques Pépin uses melted French vanilla ice cream as a crucial ingredient when making French toast.
Pépin uses a French vanilla ice cream containing most of the ingredients a basic French toast recipe requires: milk or heavy cream, egg yolks, and vanilla flavor.
The ice cream saves him time when making the dish, as all he needs to do is immerse his bread in the melted vanilla soup and place it into a buttered pan.
By using the ice cream in this way, Pépin wasn't required to prepare each item separately. It's important to reiterate that you can't use just any vanilla ice cream for this hack.
The type of French vanilla ice cream used is closer to what Americans call frozen custard, which contains the egg yolks needed for this trick to work.
