Baked French Toast

It is very easy now to make French toast for the entire family at the same time.  Because the magic of the Silpat baking sheets is that the woven glass toasts whatever is touching it, we don't need to use any oil or butter to create such an even crisp.  The picture is after I flipped it over.
How to make:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix your normal french toast batter --
I use 6 beaten eggs, a dash of milk, about 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
You can use normal bread or cookie cut outs (my kids love the bears!)
Bake about 10 minutes, then flip, cook 5 more minutes
Be sure to check bread centers to make sure the egg has cooked all the way.
Serve with syrup for dipping, or powder sugar sprinkled on top!  They make a great breakfast or snack!

Cookie Cravings

Bakers beware: using a silpat for cookies might spoil you.  No longer will you have to take your cookies out of the oven before they are fully baked so they can "finish cooking" on a hot cookie sheet.  Nope.  You can actually cook them until they are done and I promise they won't dry out or fall apart.  Take these cookies out when the timer dings at 9 minutes and  they are toasted lightly on the bottom, which you can check right out of the oven. Silicone doesn't overheat like aluminum, so your cookies won't dry out.  No more uncooked middles, and no more cookies that are half stuck to the sheet. 
Like I said: spoiled. 
Pictured here are chocolate chip cookies made with the Nestle Tollhouse recipe - made with butter and no nuts. I took them off the silpat and let them cool on a sheet of brown paper so they wouldn't indent from a cookie rack. Out of 60 cookies, only one fell apart because two of us reached for it to eat it at the same time.   
Margarine or butter cookies tend to be thinner -- for more shape, you can substitute with butter flavored shortening.  Some experts will say replace all of butter, others will say try half butter, half shortening.  Little healthier? Cut down the butter by half and replace it with applesauce. 
Store cookies in an airtight container and enjoy!

Silpat: Not just nonstick!

If you put two slices of bread on a Silpat and perforated sheet, then stick it in the oven at 350 for ten minutes, you will be surprised to see that the bread comes out "toasted" on the bottom.   No butter, no oil, no magic tricks. If you tried the same thing with bread on a normal cookie sheet, the bread would crust on the top, and be soggy and stick to the bottom.  Why?
Silpats are made with silicone and woven glass.  The perforated sheet allows hot air to heat up the glass inside the bake-ware, which then evenly toasts the food.  Anything with sugar in it will softly caramelize, giving cookies a slightly sweeter crisp bottom.  Cheeses also create a beautiful tasty crust for garlic cheese bread (butter down!), sandwiches, or you can even make Parmesan crisps.