Nutella French Toast Sandwiches

I know I posted before that my husband loves macaroni and cheese. He also loves French Toast and lately has been addicted to Nutella.

When I say addicted to Nutella, I mean that when I made Nutella truffles, he was very excited and every time we go to the movies, he gets a Nutella, strawberry, and banana crepe. Yes, we get crepes when we go to the movies here. Definitely something I will miss when we get back to the States.

I found this recipe a while ago and was very excited to make it for my husband.

Here is the link to the original blog post that I used for this: http://www.navywifecook.com/2012/02/nutella-french-toast-with-strawberries.html

I changed a lot for my version of this, so I recommend checking out the original blog as well.

Sorry for no pictures. I promise to get better about that one of these days. :)

Nutella French Toast Sandwiches

Ingredients:
*A loaf of bread (The more stale the bread is, the better your French toast will hold up.)
*4 beaten eggs
*1 cup milk
*2 tablespoons sugar
*2 teaspoons vanilla extract
*2 teaspoons orange liqueur (I use Jose Cuervo Orange Tequila in mine)
*Cinnamon
*Butter
*Nutella

Directions:
1. In a shallow bowl or pie pan, beat together eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, orange liqueur and cinnamon.
2. Scoop some butter onto a skillet or a griddle that is heated up so that the butter melts. (I use a griddle because it makes it easier and quicker for me to get breakfast done. If I was using a skillet, I would have to cook the French toast slices one at a time, but with a griddle, I can get six slices done at once.)
3. Dip the slices you have room for on your cooking surface into the egg mixture. Make sure to coat both sides of the bread.
4. Cook the slices of bread until both sides are golden brown and the egg mixture is completely cooked.
5. As soon as you remove the French toast from the skillet or griddle, pair up the pieces of bread. This will help you out when making your sandwiches.
6. Start the rest of your bread on the skillet or griddle, if you still have more bread.
7. Take your pairs of pieces of bread and spread Nutella on one of them. Then, place the other slice of French toast on top to make a sandwich.
8. Enjoy!

What Did I Think of This Recipe:

This is a great recipe that my husband has fallen in love with. I actually don’t know why I never thought of adding Nutella to French toast before finding this, but it is a good thing that I found this.

I used a completely different method as far as this recipe goes than the original blog did. That is mainly because I don’t like to dip sandwiches in the egg mixture. It just never seems to cook well enough for me and this way, you get more of the French toast flavor!

You can garnish this with strawberries or any other kind of fruit if you would like. I was going to do a mixture of strawberries and bananas on the side of this, but all of the produce I have been finding lately has been pretty gross looking so I decided to just make the French toast sandwiches.

This is definitely a recipe that we will be keeping around. My husband is obsessed with Nutella as it is so he was very happy for me to find a way to combine both Nutella and French toast!