HK French Toast Bites
Hong Kong’s French toast, a cha chaan teng classic, is just about as far as one can get from pain perdu. Traditionally filled with peanut butter (alternatively, with black sesame paste or kaya) and built with thick cuts of milk bread, it is the perfect, sweet and savoury treat for 2am munchies, or a cure for the morning after. This is a bite-sized version of this classic dish that takes minutes to make, and is crumbly in all the right ways.
Ingredients:
For the peanut butter filling
120g peanut butter
30g icing sugar
For the biscuit dough
60g all purpose flour
50g ground almonds
21g icing sugar
115g unsalted butter
Frosting (optional)
50g melted white chocolate
Mix the peanut butter and icing sugar together until it forms a smooth paste. Form tiny peanut butter balls from the paste (roughly as big as a thumb nail), and set aside in the fridge to firm up.
In the meantime, cream butter with icing sugar until the mixture is smooth and fluffy. Add in all purpose flour and ground almonds, and mix until the dough is smooth.
Take a small piece of dough, and wrap it around a peanut butter ball. Repeat until all of the peanut butter balls have been used up.
Bake these at 180°C for 10 minutes, and for the perfect finish, drizzle on a little melted white chocolate.