This French Friday with Dorie pick, for me this week, was the perfect recipe. It was super quick and chocolatey and aside from the nutella, I actually had all the ingredients already. Perfect!
Instead of brioche, I used challah as the recipe suggested as an alternative. But not just any challah — I had some cranberry challah rolls in the freezer. This was the perfect excuse to defrost one, slice it up, and slather it with goodness. Plus, I thought the cranberries added to the overall flavor.
Notes:
1. I kind of wish the other side of the bread was toasted too. If I do this again, I’d probably toast the one side, flip it over and then spread the butter and toast up the second side.
2. I had no patience for a double boiler and just gave the nutella two 15-second cycles in the microwave.
3. I used chopped pecans for the top, as I didn’t have any hazelnuts.
That’s pretty much it. Here’s a link to everyone’s posts and my photos below.
The makings of a delicious snack.
Challah buttered and toasted, orange marmalade on.
Here starts the Nutella-drizzlin’.
Om-nom-nom
Nutella just makes everything better 🙂
I buttered my bread on both sides and toasted it in the frying pan – it just seemed like the thing to do.
Cher: Well, now. That’s just brilliant! 🙂
Looks great!
I agree with your first note. In fact, after we made the first round as written in the recipe, I just ended up using my toaster for the second round. Quicker and easier than the broiler.
Your cranberry challah sounds delicious.
Glad to know that the microwave works just as well as the double (except for the 2,000 calories, of course)
Mostly I’m fascinated by the beautiful breads everyone used for this recipe – like your challah. Wonderful!
I liked that it was so easy to make, my sous chef was not eager to try it again though. He said he would rather have a chocolate donut!
Those cranberry challah rolls look wonderful. I tried going the microwave route with the Nutella but it didn’t work out for me. Pecans can do no wrong with chocolate in my book.
Yay! Another pecan fan! 🙂 In the four years I’ve been food blogging, I’ve yet to find fresh hazelnuts. Oh well, the pecans were quite tasty on top – love your photo of the drizzling!
I couldn’t find hazelnuts so used pecans too. Delicious! Bet the cranberry challah were good.
I agree, bread should be toasted on both sides. I just like the crunch. I used brioche but I like Challah so will probably use that when I do this again. We liked this recipe. I am a new Nutella fan – banned it from my house 35 years ago.
Yes, this tartine is indeed the best reason to get to that cranberry challah roll in the freezer. Looks great! I put my sliced breat in a regular toaster without butter. Hmm, didn’t occur to me that the original direction would leave us with only one side toasted. 🙂
So funny! I actually liked that the toasted side was firm enough to spread on, but that the other side was soft. Of course, I didn’t really like the end product 🙁 Still, it’s a good-looking snack.
Boy that cranberry challah sounded great. I am such a carb addict. Need to find ways to add more calories and fat to my breads like a whole in my head….but oh this was fabulous ! And for the record, I microwaved my Nutella too. Next time I will just toast the bread…..
I think was one of my favorite FFWD recipes that everyone made! I just love Nutella!
cranberry challah?? thats pretty unique in my book! Love your use of pecans instead of hazelnuts! I zapped our chocolate too, thats why we spread it across the jam because it didnt drizzle very well! 🙂
This looks very tasty–I have some pan de sal rolls left in the freezer I can try it out on. Anything to eat some nutella.