Chocolate Stuffed French Toast
French toast has been a Sunday morning breakfast staple for quite some time now. What better breakfast fun than biting into a fresh French toast and finding a scrumptious chocolate surprise waiting for you inside. For kids, this is a definite breakfast winner. For adults, it’s love at first sight.
Ingredients:
15 1-1/2” thick slices French bread
1 3-1/2 oz. milk chocolate bar, cut into pieces
2 tablespoon pistachio nuts, chopped
4 eggs, beaten
¾ cups milk
Scant ¼ cup coffee liqueur
¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Oil
Maple syrup or confectioners’ sugar
Directions:
- Start from the bottom of the bread and cut a pouch in each piece of bread, making sure not cut all the way through the bread.
- Fill each pouch with a piece of chocolate and ½ teaspoon of chopped nuts. Set aside. ...continue reading
Breakfast Benefits
Eating breakfast yields huge returns. Although we’ve heard this time and again, a vast majority of the population still opt to skip this most important meal of the day, using “no time”, or “on a diet” as an excuse. It has been repeatedly proven that the benefits of eating a good, healthy, well-balanced breakfast outweigh the cons 100 to none.
Concentration & Energy: Eating breakfast has been proven to help children, adolescente and yes, even adults, stay focused, have higher energy levels and better memorizing skills, which translats into better grades for students and higher performance levels for both children and adults. Some researchers add that breakfast helps keep our emotions well balanced, thus contributing to our mental stability.
Diet: Skipping breakfast because “I’m on a diet” is actually quite counter productive. The fact of the matter is that when your body is deprived of breakfast, your metabolism will slow down in order to protect your body from starvation by storing the energy resources it has available. Due to the fact that breakfast is the first meal of the day, starting your day with a well-balanced meal will actually kick-start your metabolism and get it running for the day. It has also been proven that those that eat breakfast tend to consume fewer calories through-out the day. ...continue reading