Recipe For Cooking Baked French Toast With Nutella

Baked Toaster Oven Dishes :: Breakfast Dishes

Baked French Toast with Nutella

Makes approximately 4 to 8 servings.

Make-ahead trick: Fill the French toast and make up the custard in advance. In the morning, about 40 min. before eating, dip toast in custard and bake it while the coffee brews and you set the table.

Toast
4 oz. cream cheese or Neufchatel cheese, at room temperature
6 Tbsp. Nutella, at room temperature
8 slices white bread

Custard
4 eggs
1 C. milk
2 Tbsp. sugar br> 1 tea. vanilla extract or flavoring
1/4 tea. ground nutmeg
Powderedsugar
Maple syrup (optional)

To make sandwich: Mix cream cheese and Nutella until combined. Spoon mixture on 4 bread slices and spread all the way to outside edges, then top with remaining slices to make sandwiches. Place in resealable plastic bag and refrigerate until ready to bake.

To make custard: In flat container with an airtight lid lrg. enough to hold a bread slice, beat together eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla extract and nutmeg. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.

To assemble: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mist a 9 x 13-in. baking pan with sides with nonstick cooking spray.

Dip sandwiches into custard, turning once, for 2 min. on the first side and 1 on the second to soak up as much of the custard as possible. Lay drained slices on pan and bake for 15 min., then turn them over and bake for 20 min. more, or until toast is golden brown on both sides. Sprinkle lightly with sifted powderedsugar and serve with syrup, if desired. Recipe can easily be doubled.