Chocolate Brioche Pain Perdu Recipe

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Chocolate Brioche Pain Perdu Recipe

Treat yourself to decadent Chocolate Brioche Pain Perdu, featuring thick slices of brioche stuffed with chocolate, served with sautéed bananas. A luxurious French toast recipe perfect for brunch or special occasions.

Course Dessert

Cuisine French

Keyword banana French toast, brioche brunch recipes, chocolate brioche pain perdu, chocolate-stuffed toast, decadent French toast, indulgent breakfast recipes, pain perdu ideas

Method Oven

Main Ingredient Dairy

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 10

Freeze Time 2

Total Time 2 25

Servings

Calories 482kcal

Author Chef Francois Payard

Equipment

Ingredients

Pain Perdu Custard:

4 Cup(s) milk
4 each eggs
4 each yolks
¼ Cup(s) sugar
⅓ Cup(s) cocoa powder
1 each vanilla bean or 3 Tbs. extract

Sautéed Bananas optional:

3 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon
4 each bananas cut into 1/2 inch pieces
2 tablespoons Meyers Rum

Assembly:

Brioche slices – cut each loaf into 8 pieces - 1/2” thick slices
1 Cup(s) chocolate chips
2 Tbs. Honey
4 Tbs. Butter

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F.

Custard:

Whisk the eggs cocoa, and yolks by hand in a bowl and add sugar, milk (add the milk ½ at a time to avoid lumps) and the vanilla bean.

Sauteed Bananas:

Melt the butter in a sauté pan.
Add the bananas and sauté while adding the sugar.
Pour in the rum and flambé.

Assembly:

Soak each slice in the custard for 1 minute and use the two pieces to make a sandwich and sprinkle about 1 Tbs. chocolate chips in between two of the slices.
Press the two slices together. Freeze solid.
Heat the butter in a sauté pan.
When the butter has almost reached the brown butter stage, add the honey.
Take the frozen brioche slices and cook each side, making sure that they take a good color.
Remove from the pan and place on a sheet tray with parchment paper and repeat as necessary, cleaning the pan each time.
When all pieces are cooked, place in the preheated oven and bake for approx. 10 minutes, or until cooked all the way through.
Set aside the brioche and re warm in the oven before serving.
Place the re-warmed brioche on a plate.
Sautee the bananas and place over brioche.
Dust the dessert with powdered sugar.

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