Blackberry French Toast - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 lb loaf crusty French bread, sliced
10 large eggs
1/4 cup sugar, plus
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 pint heavy cream
2 tablespoons melted butter
1 (12 ounce) bag frozen blackberries or 3/4 pint fresh berries

Preparation

The night before.
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
Slice the bread and spread on a large cookie sheet.
Place in oven, turn oven off, and let bread set in oven overnight (since I have a gas oven, I just set the bread in the oven overnight, the pilot light hardened it enough).
The next morning.
Whisk the eggs and 1/4 cup sugar until all the yolks are broken.
Add the milk and cream and whisk a little more.
Put the dried bread pieces on top of the egg mixture.
Wait a few minutes, then push the rest of the bread into the mixture and mix lightly.
Grease a bundt pan and place half of the bread mixture in the pan to cover the botton.
Spoon the berries over the bread and sprinkle berries with the 1 Tablespoon sugar.
Spoon the remainder of the bread over the berries and pour the remaining liquid over the top.
Brush the top with the melted butter.
Bake at 325 for 1 hour or until toothpick insterted comes out clean.
Cut and serve, while hot.
Serve with powdered sugar or syrup drizzled over the top.