Grilled chocolate sandwiches
I love chocolate combined with bread. Pain au chocolat, chocolate chip bagels, toast with nutella…all have the soulful bread texture combined with the dark splendor of chocolate. A good pain au chocolat will have a chocolate center that is still warm and pliable…but how often do you find one of those? Usually the whole thing is stone cold and the chocolate is hard as a rock. If I had the time and the will power I could bring it home and gently warm it in the toaster oven. But let’s face it…that has never, ever, happened. For my money a good chocolate chip bagel is a delight. I love the crunchy chocolate chips offset by the chewiness of the bagel, plus the bagel’s robust breadiness really does play quite nicely with the chocolate chips.
When I made my first brioche for World Bread Day I knew it wouldn’t be my last. Over the past few weeks I’ve thought about how best to combine brioche with chocolate…and then I was making grilled cheese sandwiches and it came to me. I told the guys I was making grilled brioche and chocolate sandwiches and Alex said, “A chocolate sandwich?!!? You can’t do that…it’s crazy!!”. Oh yes I can you silly boy…just watch me! After the brioche came out of the oven and cooled I sliced the loaf in two and gave half of it up to the guys…it was gone in minutes. The other half I hid for another day…I wanted it to be slightly stale when I grilled it up.
These little babies couldn’t be simpler and really pack a huge “WOW” factor. Slice the brioche, butter it, put your favorite chocolate in the center, top it with another buttered slice of brioche and grill it to a golden brown. My only tip is to grate the chocolate in the food processor to ensure it will melt all the way through. The finished product was a magnificent combination of chocolate and tender, stretchy brioche. Everyone loved it. I’m content for now but I bet there are other chocolate and bread combinations I need to try. Do you know of any?
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Y’know, when I was 10 my family spent the summer in Denmark and I swear I can remember seeing and buying chocolate in little plastic wrapped slices - exactly like processed cheese slices, only chocolate - produced specifically for sandwiches. My mom being my mom I’m pretty sure I got them exactly once. Maybe that’s why they’ve haunted me all these years.
I think the Danish plan was to eat it on pumpernickel with butter. I hate to say whether that would be better than melted on toasty brioche. I’d have to do a side-by-side comparison. Hmm…
Grilled chocolate?! Wow…talk about a sweet tooth! Looks great though!
Toasted. Brioche. And. Chocolate.
oh my god……
Yum! Here in Seattle there is a place called the Chocolate Box that makes amazing pain au chocolat. It’s gooey in the middle. All stickiness and melty-gooey goodness. Delicious.
Toasted… bread… and chocolate …. bliss!
You could try Toblerone… the nougat might add some more crunch though
Wonderful idea!!!
The foodie police may come and get me … but I really love dark chocolate melted in sourdough. :runs and hides:
You can count on me for making this one! BTW—what chocolate did you use?
yum! my personal chocolate bread combo is chocolate chip zucchini bread…
Sweet butter jesus that looks good right now! If I only had some brioche.
Michael Natkin
The Herbivoracious Blog
I’m so making this sandwich! Yummy!
You are killing me here!
Giving me bad ideas and I just don’t need the temptation. Stop encouraging me!
Your recipes look wonderful. I will have to make some of them and let you know how I did! I am trying to connect with other women with similiar interests (cooking, crafts, family) in Wisconsin. Keep Up the good work. Your site is terrific.
That processed chocolate cheese is available here in Hong Kong. I grilled sandwiches with it using cinnamon raisin bread.
Absolutely gorgeous–and mouth watering!
These look delicious!
I made your carnitas a couple nights ago and it was so easy and so good!
Ferdzy, a side-by-side taste comparision is definately in order…I’ll report back.
Hillary, I don’t have a sweet tooth…I’ve got sweet teeth!
Kate, I know…doesn’t it seem obvious?
Katrina, that’s a good bakery…I bet they make them last instead of first.
Tanya, don’t run, don’t hide…we don’t cater to no stinkin foodies…we eat our chocolate where we like it and sourdough sounds excellent to me. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
JEP…I’m a frugal girl so I use the Trader Joe’s Pound Plus belgium dark chocolate…it comes in milk, semisweet, and bittersweet…I love them all.
Gwen, I’ve got a recipe for that. Thanks for stopping by.
Michael, pleasurepalate, Sleeplessinwi, pumpkinpie, and sher thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Holler, I know…I;m sorry. Now go make one and get it over with.
brilynn, thanks and I’m glad the pork was good.
Ummm, I have some Greek chocolate spread in my pantry…guess what I’ll be making??
Wow! It looks really great. I hope it will work by using the normal white bread…?
That would be even more delicious with sliced strawberries inside.
Oh I just love plain old baguette with a slab of dark chocolate in-between. It’s delicious. Oh I just spread some nutella on it and I have my chocolate fix for the day :)
Food porn indeed. Oh lord. Bread and chocolate–life’s greatest pleasures! There’s a place in Seattle called Theo Chocolates that makes a chocolate bar called the Bread and Chocolate bar…like toasty little mini croutons in a chocolate bar. Not gross, I promise!
these looked so good, i made my own version wwhich you can see here. the picture is not very good (they sandwiches look a little burnt, but were not) but they came out great! thanks for sharing your idea!