You’d be hard-pressed to find a better recipe than our Apple Cider Caramel Toast. This is a modern, toasty take on the classic county fair flavors of apple cider and caramel apples. Smokey, sweet, and tangy, every bite awakens a different part of your palate. Add green apple, fennel, farmer cheese, and apple cider vinegar to your grocery list because you are going to want to try this!
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Ingredients
Apple Cider Caramel
- 2 cups apple cider
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 5 tbsp salted butter
- 3/4 cup Organic Plain Whole Milk Kefir
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
Additional Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Farmer Cheese
- 1 fennel bulb, save fennel fronds for garnish
- 1 green apple
- 2 -4 toasted sourdough bread
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Directions
- Caramel Directions: Add the apple cider to a medium saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to boil. Allow the apple cider to cook down to about 1/3 cup.
- Reduce the heat and add the brown sugar, butter, whole milk kefir, and cinnamon and increase the heat back to medium-high heat. Continue to cook for 10-15 minutes until the caramel thickens and starts to become dark in color.
- Remove from heat, add the vanilla and the pinch of salt; stir to combine. Set aside to cool, the caramel sauce will thicken a little once it cools.
- Grilling Instructions: Cut the fennel and apple in half, brush with butter or oil, and place onto the grill to get grill marks and a smokey flavor to them. You don't want to cook it too long, just enough to get the grill flavor.
- Remove the fennel and apple from the grill and thinly slice them. Set aside.
- Toast Instructions: Take toasted bread and slather with Farmer Cheese and top with fennel, apple, a sprinkle of cinnamon, and apple cider caramel. Garnish with fennel fronds.
