Starting the Day Off Right

So here’s a little twist on a breakfast classic, though if you’re like us, the breakfast for dinner is also a favorite way to go.

Chocolate French Toast

2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup chocolate syrup
Baguette, thickly sliced
Pat of butter

The basic recipe calls for thick-sliced baguette, but you can substitute any kind of specialty bread you’d like, for example, Texas toast, batard, or whole wheat loaf. In this instance we used a honey brown bread which added another level of flavor.

Lightly beat the egg, milk and cinnamon in a shallow bowl.

Mix in the chocolate syrup. Dip the slices in the mixture until well soaked.

Melt the butter in a hot skillet, then add in the soaked bread slices.

Cook the bread slices 2-3 minutes per side until egg sets and they are a golden brown. Serve immediately.

We highly recommend that you offset the sweet with some fluffy scrambled eggs and turkey sausage (at least that’s what we’d do).

What’s nice about this is that the chocolate taste is subtle and not overwhelming so the chance of an all-out sugar coma is minimized…of course that could change completely depending on your relationship with syrup.

Couple of notes

We didn't have any chocolate syrup handy, but we did find some leftover fondue in the fridge.  To make it into a syrup we simply heated it up til it was a thick liquid and then added cream until we got it to a syrupy consistency.

If you wanted to go all out chocolate on this dish, use the chocolate syrup instead of maple to drizzle over the French Toast and, just for good measure, add a dollop of whippped cream to the stack.