How to make the best French toast ever? Just swap out white bread and use chocolate babka instead. By way of Eastern Europe, babka is a bready cake or cakey bread—yeast-raised, sweet, and layered with lots of good stuff, like gooey chocolate or sugary cinnamon. Here, we’re using the chocolate kind. It’s an all-too-easy way to take a breakfast classic and make it weekend-decadent. A few favorite ways to top it off: confectioners’ sugar, salted butter and maple syrup, or sour cream and jam. <br /> <br />A note about sourcing: I usually buy chocolate babka at Jewish delis, but some supermarkets sell it as well. If you can’t find it wherever you live, feel free to substitute another sweet, swirly bread (think cinnamon-raisin). It’ll be different, but still delicious.

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