Chocolate French Toast with Fresh Strawberry Sauce
Decadent Chocolate French Toast with Fresh Strawberry Sauce is a favorite on any brunch table. It’s pairs well with all sorts of savory dishes but does great as a stand alone as well! So Yummy!
When I found out that this week’s theme was inspired by Sara Moulton and her cookbook Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners, I couldn’t wait to pick a recipe and get started. We found out pretty quickly we were allowed to use any Sara Mouton recipe and use it to inspire us.
Almost immediately we settled on this Chocolate French Toast with Fresh Strawberry Sauce.
It was inspired by her Ruthie’s Chocolate French Toast with Raspberry Sauce featured in her cookbook titled Sara Moulton Cooks at Home. We enjoy having a brunch style Sunday meal from time to time.
We paired this delicious Chocolate French Toast with Fresh Fruit, scrambled eggs and spinach casserole and bacon (because who can resist bacon!). We served coffee, juice and milk and we enjoyed ourselves immensely.
The teens all LOVED the french toast.
Even Miss Picky, but hey – it’s chocolate and you really cannot go wrong with chocolate. Or strawberries.
The sauce was made by the teenagers after going and picking FRESH strawberries out of my garden!
And they just keep coming! haha This is why we picked a strawberry sauce! Something fun to do with all these strawberries!
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- Grilled Reuben Pizza
- Vegetarian Greek Stuffed Zucchini
- Gluten Free Mozzarella Pesto Pizza
- Curried Peas and Black Beans
- Turkish Pistachio and Apricot Bread
- Nectarine Upside-Down Cake
Recipe for Chocolate French Toast with Fresh Strawberry Sauce
Chocolate French Toast with Fresh Strawberry Sauce
Ingredients
For the Chocolate French Toast
- 5 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon almond extract you can also use vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons of unsalted butter
- 8 slices of thick bread at least a 1/2-inch thick
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate broken into large chunks and finely chopped
For the Fresh Strawberry Sauce:
- 1 cup fresh strawberries greens removed
- 3 Tablespoons of Freshly Squeezed Meyer Lemon Juice
- 1/4 cup of sugar
Instructions
For the Chocolate French Toast:
- In a medium bowl, beat the eggs, milk, sugar, almond extract and salt.
- Pour into a shallow dish for dipping the bread.
- It’s easier to do this in 2 batches, so I will explain that method. You can do whatever is easiest for you.
- Melt 1/2 the butter (1 1/2 Tablespoons) in a large, nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. (you can also use a griddle if you want).
- Dip four pieces of bread slices into the egg mixture until lightly soaked. Immediately place all four down into the heated pan of melted butter.
- Sprinkle each slice with 1/4th of the chocolate.
- Dip the last four pieces of bread into the egg mixture and place them on top of the chocolate like a sandwich.
- Gently press down with a spatula to be sure the slices adhere to each other.
- Turn down the heat and cook on medium about 4 minutes per side.
- Once finished, remove from pan.
- Sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar.
For Fresh Strawberry Sauce:
- In a blender, mix together the strawberries, fresh squeezed meyer lemon juice and sugar.
- Spoon over chocolate french toast. Garnish each plate with a strawberry.
I haven’t ever heard of chocolate french toast but what a perfect pairing with fresh strawberries! YUM!
When I saw your chocolate french toast in the line up, Nicole, a beeline for this scrumptious sounding dish was made. Upon arrival at Daily Dish Recipes, my expectations have been exceeded. Not only are there chocolate chips sandwiched in between, there are fresh strawberries – from your garden! Beautiful brunch fare indeed =)
You’ve outdone yourself this time, Nicole, both in making a beautiful dish and finding a summer activity that keeps teenagers busy and out of trouble. 🙂 In fact, your whole brunch sounds wonderful.
What a fun and beautiful recipe! And I love that you could use all your fresh strawberries. Just lovely!
Oh, boy, I can see why this was a hit!!! And lucky you getting to use fresh garden strawberries…SO yummy!!!
So envious of you and the strawberries in your garden. How wonderful! What a perfect way to use them with this french toast. Love the bits of chocolate in it.
wow this looks amazing! Love your pictures and am jealous of your strawberry plants. Mine gave me ONE STRAWBERRY this year. One.
Mmm now this is something I would love to chow down on right now. Chocolate filled french toast? Yummy!
I want chocolate french toaaaast!
omg my boyfriend would ADORE this! He loves french toast and chocolate & strawberry anything together!
Lemon, fresh strawberries, chocolate AND its French Toast! Oh yeah count me in!
Yum! I think this sounds like a perfectly decadent breakfast…and I love that you have strawberries fresh from the garden! Our strawberry season is long gone here in FL…maybe next year I’ll be planting some!!!
Chocolate and strawberries? A winning combination especially for my two kids!
I want to lick that syrup off the plate.
I never do anything fun with French toast. Just the basic egg, milk, and cinnamon to dip bread in and cook. I go crazy for strawberries when they are in season, so I’ll have to try this and the chocolate next time!
Linda says get the coffee ready…she’s coming for breakfast. 😉
oh my goodness! I think my stomach just did a backflip 😉 And the sauce is with just picked strawberries?! I’m dying.
Wow. Chocolate French Toast! It’s as if I just discovered some secret breakfast club that’s been hiding all the amazing things to make in the morning. This sounds incredible.
oh wow! love that you have fresh strawberries in your garden!! this is fabulous, yumm!
How could one NOT go crazy for this!? Wow, it’s like the queen of breakfasts…my kids are clamoring for it in the background ;).
I made french toast today, to bad i didn’t see your recipe first, so delicious.
Those strawberries look amazing! Wow. I think all mine died. Nice recipe.
Those strawberries look amazing! Wow. I think all mine died. Nice recipe.
I am so jealous of your strawberry garden! My kids would absolutely love this french toast. Yum!
I’m a teensy bit jealous of your over abundance of strawberries! And then chocolate French toast?! Divine!
I’m pretty much in love with this recipe and so jealous of your fresh strawberries. Oh how would I love to be able to go outside and just pick some whenever I wanted!
Wow… I wish I had Sunday breakfasts at your place!
Chocolate stuffed french toast! Perfect
Whoa baby, that looks heavenly! French toast is one of my favourite breakfast foods and you’ve totally taken it to the next level with the chocolate and strawberry sauce. Love your strawberry plant too. I tried growing one last year on my balcony and probably got about five berries from it. It’s my blasted thumb of death!