Sweet Toast is a Taiwanese Cafe food, found in casual places in NY like bubble tea shops. I guess it’s really Chinese junk food, but I can’t help it, I love it! It’s so simple though, I never buy it anymore. I just make it.
It’s made with thick-cut (or buy unsliced and cut yourself) Chinese bakery bread (plain or raisin). Just spread with salted butter (or use unsalted butter and sprinkle with kosher salt) and toast lightly. Place it on a plate and pour sweetened condensed milk on top. Think of it as an alternative to French Toast and you can have it for breakfast. Think of it as a subsitute for bread pudding and you can have it for dessert. Either way, you will be amazed at how wonderful this is for barely any work. If you don’t have any Chinese bakeries nearby, try it with brioche or challah. It won’t be the same but I’m sure it will be delicious too.
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oooowee! I am definitely going to try this one. Looks toothachingly good!
How funny…I made it for breakfast this morning. Great minds think alike. 🙂 I love chinese thick cut bakery bread and anything with condensed milk can’t taste bad.
MMM I loveeee toast with condensed milk! I just had some the other day.
Angie & Wonders – Wow, I'm amazed that you both had this so recently. I had never heard of this until Jessica made it. I'm in love though (yes, with both Jessica and this dessert). What a good idea.
Oh, how I wish we lived near a Chinese bakery!!
I like these sweet toasts! Condensed milk on it is just perfect.
Awesome! I make french toast from challah and we usually mix Mexican table cream and condensed milk for a different take on syrup. I wish I lived near a Chinese bakery though…sigh
I love this! It’s usually written on menus under the section THICK TOAST as “Butter and Condensed Milk”. It’s the best!
Asianmommy, is there a Chinatown in Chicago?
JS, condensed milk on anything right?
Dr. Food, ooh, what’s Mexican table cream?
TS, funny how all the Chinese places name things so differently, I’ve seen it as thick toast but also as milk bread and other more weird ones.
oh boy, between this and the do fu hua, i’m feeling super homesick! can’t wait to eat in chinatown again =)
Purelilyliving, maybe you can start a Chinatown in Florida.
Table cream is used on enchiladas, chilaquiles, tacos…basically anything Americans put sour cream on. The nice part is that it isn’t sour, so it has multiple purposes. I put in on french toast with condensed milk, on tacos, and I love pouring it over fresh berries or oranges with a bit of cinnamon.
Is this table cream found in stores? Sounds delicious and seems like its got a lot of uses.
According to The Cook's Thesauraus, table cream is also called light cream or coffee cream, and is 18-30% butterfat. That places it in between the fat content of half & half, and light whipping cream. I've seen light cream in the same section where half and half and heavy cream etc. are and I think I've used it before in coffee.
Wow this looks amazing and easy! And I bet Sabrina would eat it.