Nutella stuffed french toast with coffee patron maple syrup
original post: http://greedygirlcooks.blogspot.com/2016/01/nutella-stuffed-french-toast-with.html
Ingredients
For the French toast
½ cup heavy cream
½ cup milk
2 eggs
1 table spoon vanilla bean paste
¼ teaspoon hazelnut extract
2 tablespoon Sugar
1 pinch salt
2 tablespoon melted butter
4 cups crushed corn flakes
1 cup flour
4 slices this dense bread
1 tablespoon Nutella per slice
Butter for pan
For the sauce
¼ cup maple syrup
1 ½ shots of coffee patron
Instructions
For the French toast
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
- Whisk together, cream, milk, eggs, sugar, melted butter, salt, hazelnut extract and vanilla bean paste
- Place the cornflakes in a zip lock back and crush into fine crumbs
- Take each bread slice and cut in the center horizontally creating a pocket
- Fill each pocket with Nutella press out slightly to distribute evenly
- Lightly coat the stuffed bread in flour especially on the cut side and any areas where holes might have been accidentally made
- Dip the bread into the batter for a few second
- Place batter soaked bread in the corn flakes to coat the entire thing, make sure to coat evenly
- Melt some butter on a hot plate or a frying pan
- Place in the buttered pan and fry on both sides and on all four edges until dark golden brown
- Repeat for all, place on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes
For the sauce
- In a hot pan add the maple syrup and coffee patron
- Stir for 30 second to a minute until it begins to slightly thicken and remove from heat
- Serve over the French toast. As it cools it becomes thicker