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