French Toast with Warm Cherries & Vanilla Quark

Ingredients

• 4 slicesbrioche bread — thick
• 2 pcseggs
• 100 mlfull-fat milk
• 1 tspvanilla extract
• ½ tspcinnamon
• 15 gbutter
• 200 gfrozen cherries — thawed
• 1 tbsphoney
• 150 gfull-fat quark
• 20 gdark chocolate
• sea salt — small pinch

Method

1. 1

   Put the cherries with the honey in a small saucepan and heat for 5–6 minutes. Mash a few cherries with a spoon to create a coarse warm cherry sauce.

2. 2

   Whisk the eggs with the milk, cinnamon, half of the vanilla, and a small pinch of salt.

3. 3

   Briefly dip the brioche into the egg mixture. Do not let it soak for too long.

4. 4

   Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the brioche for about 2–3 minutes per side until golden brown.

5. 5

   Mix the quark with the remaining vanilla.

6. 6

   Arrange two pieces of French toast loosely overlapping per person.

7. 7

   Spoon a generous amount of vanilla quark and the warm cherries over them.

8. 8

   Finally, shave or grate a little dark chocolate over the whole dish.