Eggless Chocolate Stuffed French Toast

Last day of the year and I wanted to make something nice for breakfast. It is not often that my husband is home for me to make a nice hot breakfast for him. This week, thanks to the snow, has been an anomaly. The problem with nice hot breakfasts is that it usually entails using a good deal of eggs. I cook a lot with eggs and I think that we were both getting a bit tired of it. I did however, want to make Chocolate Stuffed French Toast. No problem!

Eggless Chocolate Stuffed French Toast

Ingredients:

4 slices of bread (crusts off optional)

1/4 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips

3 tablespoons of heavy cream

1/2 cup of milk

(heavy cream, whole milk, skim..whatever you have)

1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

*Gluten Sensitivity-McCromacks Pure Extract is Gluten free

1/2 teaspoon of sugar

1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

1 tablespoon of butter, cut in half

Powdered sugar (optional) for dusting

Directions:

1. In a microwave safe bowl, combine chocolate chips and heavy cream and melt for 45 seconds (stirring frequently)
2. Cut crusts off your four slices of bread.
3. Spread chocolate on two slices, leaving a border around the edges
4. Place a slice of bread on top of the chocolate covered slices and with a fork, press down on the edges. Flip over sandwich and repeat on other side.
5. In a shallow bowl, add 1/2 cup of milk, vanilla extract, sugar and cinnamon and whisk
6. Heat a frying pan with 1/2 tablespoon of butter
7. Place sandwich in milk mixture and coat both sides and place in frying pan.
8. Cook both sides to a golden brown
9. Place on plate, decorate with a dollop of  chocolate filling and dust with powdered sugar.

Homemade bread crusts off

Chocolate filling

Sealing the chocolate in

Makin' French Toast!