Nutella Stuffed Brioche French Toast

Nutella Stuffed Brioche French Toast Ingredients

French toast is a simple recipe that typically calls for bread, eggs, milk, and a few spices. But to make this extravagant stuffed version of a classic french toast, you’ll need fresh brioche bread and Nutella.

Here’s a full list of what you’ll need to make our Nutella stuffed brioche french toast recipe:

• Brioche bread – Brioche is absolutely the best type of bread for stuffed french toast. It’s light and fluffy and super absorbent, with just the right touch of sweetness to complement the hazelnut flavor of the Nutella.
• Nutella – Nutella is perfect for when you want chocolate in your breakfast because it’s actually made with hazelnuts. The nutty notes keep this french toast from being way too over-the-top sweet, versus if you were to use pure chocolate.
• Eggs & milk – These ingredients make up the custard-like base for french toast.
• Cinnamon – A classic flavor used in french toast that pairs perfectly with Nutella.
• Nutmeg – Found in some french toast recipes, nutmeg has earthy and nutty flavors that go really well with Nutella.
• Butter – Melting butter on your pan is essential for getting the best crisp on the outside of your french toast.

How To Make Stuffed French Toast

Stuffed french toast is not as intimidating as it looks, we promise. Here’s some helpful advice based on learnings from our own trial and error – so you don’t have to make the same mistakes we did:

• Stuffed french toast requires thick slices of bread. We’re talking at least one inch thick, but probably closer to one and a half inches thick.
• Choose your knives wisely! You need the right tools to do this job well without tearing the bread. We recommend having 3 types of knives handy: a large serrated knife, a shorter paring knife, and a butter knife.
• Stuffed french toast can get messy. That’s okay. It’s still delicious!

Next, we’ll walk you through exactly how to create a clean pocket for stuffing, how to actually stuff the brioche with Nutella, and how to turn this all into tasty french toast.

Preparing The Brioche

The first step to making the perfect stuffed french toast is to slice your brioche bread into thick pieces, about 1 to 1.5 inches thick. Use gentle sawing motions with a large serrated bread knife for this so that you don’t inadvertently squish the brioche.

Then, working with one slice at a time:

1. Insert a small paring knife along the bottom edge about 1 inch from the corner. Press the knife about halfway to two-thirds into the slice of brioche.
2. Next, gently saw back and forth to cut a slit along the bottom edge of the bread. Stop about 1 inch from the other corner and remove the knife.

Stuffing The Brioche With Nutella

Next, grab a butter knife to stuff each slice of brioche with Nutella. This will help you avoid accidentally puncturing through the bread or enlarging the pocket. Then, working one slice at a time:

1. Position the brioche so the opening to the pocket is facing your knife hand. You can try doing this with the bread laying flat on your work surface, or by holding the bread in your non-knife hand. Try both and see which is easier for you. 
2. Scoop some Nutella onto your butter knife, then carefully insert the knife into the center of the pocket. Gently squeeze or press down on the brioche and rock the knife back and forth, almost like you’re trying to squeegee the Nutella off the knife. It helps to keep the tip of the knife in one place and move it in an arcing motion, like a swinging pendulum. One or two passes should be enough to coat the inside of the pocket with Nutella.
3. Then, keep gently pressing on the brioche as you slowly remove the knife, so that you leave all that delicious Nutella behind inside the bread.

Repeat for each slice of bread until you have a pile of stuffed brioche. Some Nutella may begin leaking out, but that’s okay! This will get easier with practice. And french toast is messy – but that’s part of what makes it so delicious 🙂

Making The French Toast

Now that you’ve stuffed the brioche, you’re probably wondering: how do you make it into french toast? And what is the trick to making the best french toast?

From this point on, you’re basically just making regular french toast:

1. First, prepare your egg wash with egg, milk, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large, shallow dish. 
2. Next, heat up a griddle or cast iron pan and melt butter on it, spreading the butter around to coat the pan.
3. Then coat each piece of Nutella stuffed brioche in the egg wash (carefully!), fully coating both sides before transferring to the pan.
4. Cook over medium heat for a few minutes until the bottom is lightly browned, then flip and cook again until the bottom is lightly browned.

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