Recently we made french toast for lunch at home.  However there was come miscommunication, and my better half made pikelet mixture instead of prepping the milk/eggs mix one would normally expect.  Pikelet mix would be similar to pancake or flapjack or perhaps even waffle mix, a somewhat thick-but-runny liquid, that can still be poured slowly.  So I dunked toast-bread slices in pikelet mix and pan-fried it like french toast.  We ate it with various toppings, like butter, syrup, or cinnamon-sugar.  Would have gone very well with Bacon too.  We jokingly called it "german toast" for no other reason than its next to french toast.  Is this pikelet/pancake-dunked fried bread known by an existing name ? 
What you made is generally called batter dipped French Toast, which a lot of people say is better than regular French toast, and you seem to agree. I may have to try it!  There's one person calling the recipe German Toast, so you aren't alone, but it isn't a common name for it. German Toast is one of the alternate names for French Toast no matter how it's made.  