As part of the White Castle Slider Showdown contest, the recipe had to include at least six White Castle beef sliders (from a restaurant or a grocery store) and it had to be posted on Instagram or TikTok. It’s easy to see why Yoshiharu Sogi’s French Sliders Brunch got such big attention from social media.
It combines strawberries, yogurt cream cheese, bacon, nutmeg, maple syrup, and the burger patties from the White Castle sliders, while the top of the slider buns are transformed into something that can only be described as cinnamon-flavored French toast waffles to serve as the base for the whole endeavor. The bottom buns, meanwhile, are turned into homemade croutons for a side salad. It’s a completely creative reimagining of the ingredients at hand, but it’s surprisingly not hard to make at home.
Then again, one crucial aspect to White Castle’s slider success lies in its simplicity. Sogi summed it up best, as he stated in a press release: “The basic structure of White Castle Sliders is simple, so there is a lot of room to add your own creations.”