Blackberry Cream Cheese French Toast Casserole

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 slices texas toast thick bread or 4 slices thick sliced french bread
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 3/4 cup sugar or 3/4 cup splenda sugar substitute, divided
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 pint fresh blackberries
• 1/4 cup blackberry jam

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 300. place bread in oven until crusty and kind of hard. remove bread from oven. raise oven temperature to 375.
• 2 in medium or large bowl, beat eggs with milk, 1/4c sugar (or splenda), and 1 t vanilla.
• 3 tear each slice of bread into about 5 or 6 pieces and stir into egg mixture. let sit.
• 4 in small bowl, combine cream cheese and 1/2 c sugar (or splenda). set aside.
• 5 in another bowl, combine fresh blackberries and blackberry jam.
• 6 spray bottom of a loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray.
• 7 spoon half of bread/egg mixture into bottom of pan.
• 8 put blackberry mixture on top of bread mixture in pan, by spoonfuls. do the same with the cream cheese mixture.
• 9 spoon remaining bread/egg mixture over berries and cream cheese.
• 10 bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes, until fluffy and golden brown.
• 11 serve with powdered sugar and syrup, if desired.