A special valentines day breakfast for that special someone or a cozy snow-day at home.
Things to know the night before
- Buy an entire loaf of brioche bread a few days in advance - you'll want stale bread. If you didn’t plan ahead, you can toast the slices in the oven. Fresh bread will get too soggy and start to disintegrate before it even gets to the pan.
- Use extra Nutella! Once you slice through one of these beauties and see that deliciousness oozing through, you will thank me!
- Don’t soak the bread for too long! While you want the custard to penetrate the bread, you don't want soggy mush that will disintegrate while frying on the pan.
- Preheat the pan! A hot pan is the secret for that nice golden brown exterior.
- Spray the pan with a light layer of cooking spray before adding the butter. Otherwise, the butter will burn and smoke up your entire kitchen.
Ingredients
- 4 slices brioche bread, about 3/4" to 1" thick (hopefully you got an entire loaf where mistakes are okay)
- 4 Tbsp Nutella
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup whole milk (or half and half)
- 1 Tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp butter
- Powdered sugar, for dusting
- Raspberries (or whatever berry you prefer) for garnishing
Directions
- Make sure to pair up the slices of bread that were cut from each other so you have a seamless end-product.
- Spread the Nutella on one side of each piece of bread and join them like sandwiches.
- In a shallow (but wide bowl), whisk the egg, milk, sugar and vanilla extract until well combined.
- Preheat a large skillet over medium heat.
- Dip each sandwich into the custard; let it saturate on the first side, flip over and repeat on other side.
- Spray pan with cooking spray and add the butter, quickly swirling the pan to coat the bottom.
- Once the butter is melted, add the French toasts and cook each side until golden brown (about 1-2 minutes per side).
- Dust the Nutella French toasts with powdered sugar, top with raspberries and serve.