Torrijas with vanilla ice cream recipe

Ingredients

• 600 ml milk
• 2 tbsp caster sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 baguette, sliced
• Vegetable oil, for shallow frying
• 2 eggs, beaten
• Demerara sugar and cinnamon, to sprinkle
• Vanilla ice cream, to serve

Method

1. Warm the milk with the caster sugar and cinnamon stick. Pour it over the baguette slices, discard the cinnamon and leave until the liquid is absorbed.
2. Heat about 2cm of vegetable oil in a frying pan. Dip each soaked slice in beaten egg and shallow-fry until golden on both sides.
3. Drain on kitchen paper, sprinkle with demerara sugar and cinnamon, and serve at once with vanilla ice cream.