Cherry toast with vanilla cream | Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• 120 gm caster sugar
• 500 gm cherries, pitted
• Thinly peeled rind and juice of 1 lemon
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 60 ml milk (¼ cup)
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 60 gm butter, for frying
• Cherry loaf
• 160 ml milk
• 1½ tsp dried yeast
• 5 egg yolks, at room temperature, lightly beaten
• 375 gm plain flour, sieved (2½ cups)
• 30 gm caster sugar
• 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
• 150 gm softened butter
• For brushing: eggwash
• For dusting: demerara sugar
• Vanilla cream
• 125 ml thickened cream (½ cup)
• 125 ml milk (½ cup)
• ½ vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped
• 3 egg yolks
• 40 gm caster sugar
• 25 gm cornflour
• 120 gm crème fraîche (½ cup)