Baked Cinnamon Toast

Yield: 24 pieces

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 4 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 6 (1/2 inch) slices French bread

Instructions

1. In a wide shallow bowl, stir together sugar and cinnamon.
2. Remove crusts from bread and cut each slice into 3 or 4 strips.
3. Working with 1 strip of bread at a time, turn strips quickly in butter, coating them on all sides, letting any excess drip off, then turn them quickly in cinnamon-sugar, coating them on all sides.
4. Bake strips in lightly buttered jellyroll pan in upper third of a preheated 375 degrees F oven for 10 minutes.
5. Turn and bake 10 more minutes.
6. Transfer with tongs to serving plate.