Chocolate-Cinnamon Toast: The Ultimate Comfort Food
Some mornings you wake up and charge out of bed, ready to save the
world. Other mornings you want to pull the covers over your head and
tell the world (including your family) to go away.
On those “undercover” days, try this Chocolate-Cinnamon Toast.
There’s nothing quite as comforting as cinnamon and chocolate mixed
together. This toast is the ultimate comfort food. It’ll give you a good
reason to throw off those covers and charge out of bed on even the
gloomiest day.
CHOCOLATE-CINNAMON TOAST
For the chocolate-cinnamon mixture, combine 1 tablespoon
unsweetened cocoa powder, 3 tablespoons sugar, and 1/2 teaspoon
ground cinnamon in a small bowl. This will be enough for about 8 slices
of toast, so once it’s mixed together put it in a small jar with a lid and
store what you don’t use right away in the jar (tightly sealed) in a cool
cupboard.
For each piece of chocolate-cinnamon toast, butter a slice of bread and
put it on a cookie sheet. Sprinkle a rounded teaspoon of the chocolate
mixture over each slice of buttered bread and spread it out evenly with a
knife.
Pop the cookie sheet into the broiler or a toaster oven, a few inches from
the heat source. But watch the toast VERY carefully. It only takes a
minute or so for the butter and sugar and cocoa to melt and the top of
the bread to toast slightly. Turn the cookie sheet around if the bread isn’t
toasting evenly. But don’t let the chocolate mixture burn.
EXTRA TIP: Some cooks suggest toasting the bread BEFORE buttering
it, then adding the chocolate mixture to the toast and broiling it. You
might want to try it that way, too.
Suzanne Lieurance is a freelance writer and owner of the Three Angels
Gourmet Co. which offers a unique line of “heavenly gourmet mixes” for
sale at http://www.threeangelsgourmet.com and through gift shops,
Christian bookstores, gourmet food stores, and gift basket companies
across the country.
For daily food tips and other fun food information, visit the Three Angels
Gourmet Co. blog at http://www.threeangelsgourmet.blogspot.com
