Kylie Jenner is Queen of Viral Snapchat Recipes. Along with everyone else in this Kardashian-run world, we eat it up. Every. Single. Time. (Remember her cheesy ramen?)
This recipe is a couple years old, but relevance doesn't bear any weight in the rules of Celebrity Snackdown. Thus we pit her up against Alton Brown's highly-rated recipe from the good 'ole days of Good Eats.
KYLIE'S RECIPE
We did the best to recreate the youngest Jenner's Snapchat breakfast (for Tyga). Most of it was pretty straightforward—whisk together eggs, milk, and vanilla, soak bread in mixture, then fry in butter. But, in typical Kylie fashion, there were a couple of krazy twists. First, she casually calls for "French toast bread," saying that "it already has a bunch of flavor."
No, she doesn't mean a type of bread that typically is used in French toast, like, say, challah. It's a Pepperidge Farm thing. Sadly we couldn't find it and used cinnamon-swirl bread instead because it looks (and, we imagined, tastes) very similar. This decision was ultimately a disservice to Kylie due to the raisins. Taste testers were wildly upset
The second somewhat weird but even more enticing ingredient: Frosted Flakes. We've already made and fallen in love with Fruity Pebble French Toast, so we had relatively high hopes for Kylie's krunchy koating. (Sorry, it's just too easy!)
ALTON'S RECIPE
Alton's take on French toasts, as you can imagine, was much more traditional, precise, and scientific. First he makes a custard by whisking together half-and-half (instead of milk), eggs, warmed honey (it's easier to incorporate), and salt. Then he soaks day-old bread (we used brioche) in the mixture for 30 seconds on each side and lets it sit on a cooling rack resting in a sheet pan for 1 to 2 minutes.
30 seconds might seem like a short amount of time, but it feels like eternity when soaking French toast. Our bread was 2 days old, and in this mere half of a minute, it became insanely soggy (and gross to handle).
Like Kylie, Alton fries the bread in butter on the stovetop until golden on both sides then, unlike the Jenner, he toasts it in the oven. This was a game-changer. It helps dry out the toast so that each bite is verging on crispy on the outside and soft and pillowy—not soggy—on the inside.
VERDICT
Bread buying snafu aside, people thought Kylie's recipe was way too sweet. The idea of the crunch was nice, but the selection of the cereal was poor. Perhaps Corn Flakes would've been better? Alton's classic and technical recipe, on the other hand, was appreciated and devoured.
