-- Tasty's -- Deluxe Cinnamon Toast

A cinnamon toast recipe --Tasty-- created especially for the UK leg of the Zaar World Tour 2010. --Tasty-- is not of legal age to join the Tour, but she has asked me to send along to all participants a message of goodwill and best wishes. Psst-this is also yummy in French toast! (Those French!)

• Ready In: 8 mins
• Yields: 1/4 cup

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 tablespoon  english mixed spice (see Mixed Spice - Traditional Old Fashioned English Pudding Spice)
• 1  teaspoon  vanilla powder
• 1⁄4 cup sugar (raw, demerara, unbleached cane sugar, etc.) or 1⁄4 cup powdered sugar (raw, demerara, unbleached cane sugar, etc.)
•  butter
•  bread

Directions

1. Please note that both ~Tasty~ and I estimated the amount of ingredients for the spice mixture. Adjust accordingly to your preference.
2. Tip: if you can't find vanilla powder, substitute 1-2 drops of real vanilla extract and stir it into softened butter.
3. In a small bowl combine the English mixed spice, vanilla powder and sugar of choice.
4. Store in a container with a tight fitting lid.
5. To make the Deluxe Cinnamon Toast: Spread butter on a slice of bread (crumpet, whole wheat, etc.) Tip: if your butter is not to room temperature-no worries! Just place a few pieces of the hard butter on the bread. It will melt into the bread as it toasts.
6. Sprinkle about a scant one half teaspoon of the spice mixture on the bread.
7. Toast until browned and sizzling but being careful not to burn the bread!
8. PS I use a toaster which browns bread horizontally which means the butter doesn't drip down into the heating element. It is not recommended to use a toaster that toasts bread vertically to avoid the butter dripping into the mechanism-(thus in the process destroying your coveted Mickey Mouse Toaster). An oven will work.