Sugar and Spice

Image Courtesy of Kembra Pfahler.

Bliss is the aroma of cinnamon wafting through a kitchen on a lazy late Sunday morning. This memory brings Kembra Pfahler home. The artist, raised in the waves of sunny California beaches, has cultivated a practice that is both hardcore and theatrical since living in New York since the ‘80s. She does, however, enjoy treating herself to this sweet toast for breakfast, usually with a cold glass of milk. “It’s something I don't make often, but when I do I can usually eat about three or four pieces,” Pfahler shares with Family Style. 

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Ingredients

• Thickly sliced of bread
• Salted butter
• 1 teaspoon of white sugar
• ¼ cinnamon powder 

Instructions

1. Buy an uncut loaf of bread from your local bakery and ask them to cut the bread into thicker than usual slices. 
2. Prepare the cinnamon in a cup to bowl, and add white sugar (not powdered sugar) and cinnamon. This varies person to person. The amount of cinnamon you use is subjective.
3. Toast the bread in a toaster on a medium setting.
4. Butter the bread after it's been toasted, so the bread is soaked in butter. 
5. Right after the butter has gone on the toast and melted, sprinkle at least one teaspoon of your cinnamon and sugar combination on the toast.
6. After you've completely covered the buttered toast with the cinnamon and sugar mixture, let it sit for a minute while you're allowing it to blend with the butter. 
7. After it has a minute to soak into the butter, take the toast and turn it over so all of the excess sugar and cinnamon falls off.