Giada De Laurentiis’ Chocolate-Strawberry Panini | Everyday Italian | Food Network

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Chocolate-Strawberry Panini
RECIPE COURTESY OF GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
Level: Easy
Total: 22 min
Prep: 10 min
Cook: 12 min
Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients

1/4 cup chocolate-hazelnut spread (recommended: Nutella)
12 (1/2-inch) thick slices pound cake (from 1 (10.75-ounce) loaf
6 fresh strawberries, hulled and very thinly sliced
Butter-flavored nonstick cooking spray

Directions

Heat a panini grill to medium according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Spread the chocolate-hazelnut spread over 1 side of all of the pound cake slices. Arrange the sliced strawberries over 6 cake slices. Cover with the remaining cake slices, chocolate side down.

Spray panini grill with nonstick spray and grill each panino until the pound cake is crisp and golden and the fillings are warm, about 2 minutes. Cut each panino in half and serve.

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Giada De Laurentiis’ Chocolate-Strawberry Panini | Everyday Italian | Food Network

[Music] how does this sound slices of pound cakes smeared with chocolate hazelnut spread layered with strawberries and grilled until warm and toasty that’s my chocolate strawberry Panini and believe me it tastes even better than you [Music] think instead of using bread for this Panini I am using everybody’s favorite pound cake and I’m using actually Frozen pound cake that I’ve defrosted and I’m going to slice it in about half2 in slices store-bought pound cake holds up beautifully um when we go and Grill it and I love The Buttery flavor and the dense texture so let’s see we do 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 oo that’s a little thick H and one more all right the rest is for me to pick on later now I am going to top it with my all-time favorite Nutella it’s a chocolate hazelnut spread and it’s basically the Italian version of peanut butter very popular and now it’s also very easy to find when we were kids my mom had to import it once you’ve had a little bit of Nutella nothing just tastes like it now I’m going to take a couple of these little strawberries and just put them in the middle of my beautiful little cake stand because it looks pretty and decorative and these strawberries are always very fun just like that we’re going to slice the strawberries take the tops off and we’ll just slice them pretty thin cuz you want them to get heated up in the panini grill and the thing about strawberries is that I can find them all year round and by the way when you’re making them for a party everybody loves strawberries so it’s a great uh fruit to use and just put the slices of strawberries right over the top and just make them fit and they stick to the Nutella which is perfect and then you just put the other slice right on top chocolate side down and it looks like a little sandwich so we’ll do another one just add the slices right on top and if you have kids this is really fun to do with kids just a little bit there we go and put it right over the top press down just a little just to make sure that everything it’s nicely compact we’re just going to spray the panini grill with butter flavored cooking spray just to make sure that our sandwiches come off I’m going to spray take the sandwich carefully and put it right in the center there nice and hot take the second sandwich in the middle and we are going to close it up it’s going to take about 2 minutes for it to get nice and toasty and for the filling to warm up in the meantime I’m going to assemble the rest of my sandwiches [Music] let’s check on the ones we’ve got looks good the Nutella has oozed over the side put it on the cake plate makes it look so pretty we’ll stick a couple more in [Music] here that looks so pretty