Eggy in the Basket, an egg fried in the middle of a piece of bread, is a genius idea that has persistently stayed in pop culture to this day (with it’s most recent appearance in the 2005 movie V for Vendetta).

This morning I cooked up my special variation of this breakfast treat.

Ingredients

1 egg
2 pieces of bread
1/4 cup cinnamon
1/4 cup sugar
butter

Process

Cooking fried eggs is always easier on a flat surface so if you have a pancake pan or a grill, that would be the thing to use rather than a traditional frying pan. Turn on your stove and heat the pan up as you normally would to cook eggs. Take out all your ingredients and get a knife, a bowl, a spoon, and a flipper and get ready to make the best Egg in the Basket you’ve ever tasted.

Mix your cinnamon and sugar in a bowl with a spoon. Obviously this is more than you will need for one, so you can save the extras for seconds or another day. Lightly dust the surface of the pan with your mix.

Butter both sides of each piece of bread. The first piece is for the egg. Once buttered, cut out an egg sized hole (1 or 1.5 inch diameter) with a knife and throw the bread onto the pan. Crack open your egg into the hole in the bread. Be sure to let the egg cook through to over-medium status, which is where you still get a nice full yolky goo but the egg white is cooked fully.

You can cook the second piece of bread at the same time if you have a large pan. Simply dust the buttered bread with your cinnamon/sugar mix, cut it in half diagonally (or however you prefer) and set the pieces on the pan to toast. Cook, flip, and remove both the Egg in the Basket and the extra toast as the bread toasts to light brown. The toast may appear darker than normal due to the cinnamon.

Eat

Serve the meal with small drizzle of syrup on over the bread. These are sweet enough by itself, but some people love to go overboard and have the full “extreme french toast” experience, so leave the syrup out in case you want to add more.

Enjoy!