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Baked French toast cookies.
Lisa Keys

Easy French Toast Cookies

5 from 2 votes
Everything you love about French toast in a cookie treat.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 22 cookies
Course: Dessert, lunch, Snack
Cuisine: American
Calories: 172

Ingredients
  

Cinnamon-Sugar Breadcrumb Topping
  • 2 cups soft fresh breadcrumbs 2 slices day old Italian bread
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Cookie Dough
  • 2 ¼ 270 g cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons cornstarch
  • 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¾ cup 170 g unsalted butter, room temperature
  • ½ cup sugar 110g
  • ½ cup 95 g light brown sugar, lightly packed
  • 1 large egg
  • cup 78 g sour cream
  • 2 teaspoons maple extract or 1 teaspoon each maple extract and vanilla extract

Method
 

Breadcrumb Topping
  1. In a food processor, process bread slices to fine crumbs. Add sugar and cinnamon and process until uniform in color and well mixed. Set aside in a bowl.
Cookie Dough
  1. Heat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
  2. In a medium bowl, Sift flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt and cinnamon together. Whisk until blended.
  3. In bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter, sugar and brown sugar for 3 to 5 minutes or until light and smooth.
  4. Add egg and mix well. Add sour cream and maple extract. Blend well.
  5. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and blend on low speed just until dry ingredients are moistened.
  6. Using a cookie scoop (2 ½ to 3 tablespoon size) drop 1 dough ball into the bowl of cinnamon sugar crumbs. Roll the cookie ball around until coated with crumbs. Transfer to prepared baking sheet.
  7. Repeat with remaining cookie dough and crumbs spacing cookies 2-inches apart on cookie sheet. You should have about 22 cookies.
  8. Bake for 13 to 15 minutes or until puffed and golden brown around the edges.
  9. Slide cookies on parchment to a wire rack to cool completely.

Video

Notes

Choose how much maple extract and/or vanilla to your taste.
Watch the video for an easy technique for coating cookie balls in cinnamon sugar crumbs. Just gently swirl the bowl.
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