Soft on the inside, golden on the outside, coated in cinnamon sugar and layered with cream and cherry sauce — this is one of our favorite ways to bring day-old hot cross buns back to life 🍒
This French Toast Cake is cozy, slightly nostalgic, and honestly way too good to be made from leftovers.
If your hot cross buns aren’t quite as soft as yesterday — perfect. That’s exactly what makes them ideal for this recipe.
In this video, we’re turning leftover hot cross buns into:
soft golden French toast
a quick cherry sauce
a light creamy filling
and the kind of brunch dessert that disappears way too fast
A very good little low-waste baking moment 🤍
Ingredients
French Toast Base
1 large hot cross bun, sliced in half
1 egg
1 egg yolk
100 g milk (about ⅓ cup + 1 tbsp / 3.5 oz)
30 g heavy cream (about 2 tbsp / 1 oz)
50 g sugar (about ¼ cup / 1.8 oz)
Pinch of salt
½ tsp vanilla extract
20 g butter for frying (about 4 tsp / 0.7 oz)
Cinnamon Sugar
25 g sugar (about 2 tbsp / 0.9 oz)
¼ tsp cinnamon
Cherry Sauce
200 g frozen cherries (about 1⅓ cups / 7 oz)
30 g sugar (about 2 tbsp + 1 tsp / 1 oz)
50 g water (about 3 tbsp + 1 tsp / 1.8 oz)
10 g cornstarch (about 1 tbsp / 0.35 oz)
30 g water for the starch slurry (about 2 tbsp / 1 oz)
1 tbsp rum (about 15 g / 0.5 oz)
Cream Filling
190 g sour cream (about ¾ cup + 1 tbsp / 6.7 oz)
30 g powdered sugar (about ¼ cup / 1 oz)
140 g heavy cream (about ⅔ cup / 5 oz)
Method
Whisk together the egg, egg yolk, milk, cream, sugar, salt, and vanilla
Soak the hot cross bun halves well
Fry in butter until golden on both sides
Roll the edges in cinnamon sugar
Cook the cherry sauce and finish with rum
Whip the cream filling
Layer: toast, cream, toast, more cream
Finish with cherry sauce
Soft, creamy, cozy, and such a good way to turn leftover buns into something that feels a little extra.
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