Blackberry Cream Cheese French Toast Casserole - cooking recipe

Ingredients

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

Preparation

Preheat oven to 300. place bread in oven until crusty and kind of hard. Remove bread from oven. Raise oven temperature to 375.
In medium or large bowl, beat eggs with milk, 1/4c sugar (or splenda), and 1 t vanilla.
Tear each slice of bread into about 5 or 6 pieces and stir into egg mixture. Let sit.
In small bowl, combine cream cheese and 1/2 c sugar (or splenda). Set aside.
In another bowl, combine fresh blackberries and blackberry jam.
Spray bottom of a loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Spoon half of bread/egg mixture into bottom of pan.
Put blackberry mixture on top of bread mixture in pan, by spoonfuls. Do the same with the cream cheese mixture.
Spoon remaining bread/egg mixture over berries and cream cheese.
Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes, until fluffy and golden brown.
Serve with powdered sugar and syrup, if desired.