Toast Toppers

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After reading the thread about products we would like to bring back I decided to try to recreate bacon and mushroom Toast Toppers. I microwaved 2 chopped up mushrooms and mixed them with a couple of heaped tablespoons of condensed mushroom soup and half a slice of chopped up ham and some black pepper. Then put it under the grill on thick toast. It was delicious, very similar to the real thing. There is about two thirds of the soup left so I might have this every day for lunch.

I make up various concoctions like these but in my sandwich toastie machine. Lovely.

I loved a toast topper. I will definitely try out the ham and mushroom idea. Please post your cheese and ham recipe too @DarrenKing.

I love the idea of using condensed soup as a base. Inspired but really lazy all at the same time! I'm going to give it a go!

Lol, this one was my favourite one as well!

Ok, here goes and all ingredients can be bought in a single visit to your global supermarket brand of choice although Lidl does a suitable Red Leicester at less that £5kg.
Ingredients
40g cheese sauce powder
1/2 pint boiling water, or FF milk if you are out to impress
125g finely diced 'cooking bacon' (what other type is there?), or pancetta if you're entertaining guests
70-100g grated budget Red Leicester cheese (don't worry about the flavour, this mainly to get the colour right!)
1tsp onion granules & 1tsp garlic/ginger paste (you can't taste the individual flavours but these work well as a seasoning)
2tsp Dijon mustard - again you can't really detect his other than it adding a bit of JNSQ!
If you have a drawer full of E numbers feel free to add any that you think might be beneficial or would add to the authenticity of the product.
Method
• Start by frying off the bacon/pancetta. Once slightly browned, remove with a slotted spoon and discard any rendered fat.
• Boil the water or milk, turn down the heat and then add the cheese sauce powder, stirring until it thickens
• Now add the onion granules, garlic/ginger paste and Dijon mustard.
• Once thoroughly stirred in, add the grated Red Leicester and mix until uniform in consistency and colour.
• Finally , return the bacon bits and allow to bubble a little for 5 minutes or until your toast is done.
• Butter your toast right to the edges, to avoid them burning too much under the grill, and then spread your toast topper evenly but making sure that you have far more bacon bits on your slice than are on the one you are making for your little brother/sister/other close family member.
• Place under the grill and keep a close eye on proceedings. The time difference between just the right number of dark brown bits and the whole surface being only two shades away from black is about 15 seconds!
• Remove from grill, cut into three triangular pieces, so that you feel you have had one and a half slices rather than just one, and then immediately bite into your cheesy snack.
• Spit the first bit back onto the plate and dash off to get a drink of cold water. By the time you have done this the remainder of the toast topper will have cooled to a more sensible temperature and you can tackle it again. Of course, you can't taste a damn thing now that your taste buds have been fried, but that is all part of the original Toast Topper experience. Enjoy!

BTW, The Tri-Cut TT in the photo is of an earlier version with the Red Leicester hence the less orange colour. The whole slice is the colour that you are aiming for.

Should have read 'without the Red Leicester hence the less orange colour.'

Please can you let me have recipes for these toast topper recipes of yours especially cheese and ham thank you

Hi, the recipe and full instructions are given in my post. I don't know what more I can tell you.