Black Forest French Toast Food

FRENCH TOAST FOREST CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Cut out the tree shapes in the bread using a cookie cutter. You can also free-form the tree shape by hand if you do not have a cookie cutter.
• Grease your 8- or 9-inch cast iron pan (or any round baking dish).
• Line up the trees in the pan with a bit of an overlap, so they are standing up.
• In a mixing bowl, beat together the eggs, milk, jam, sugar and cinnamon until smooth and well-combined.
• Pour the egg mixture over the bread. Being sure to soak the tips of the trees as well as the bases.
• Place in the fridge for at least 2 hours, or overnight. This is to ensure the mixture is soaked up by the bread.
• When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Dust with powdered sugar and serve warm with fresh fruit, maple syrup and butter or your prefered toppings.

BLACK FOREST FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• 1. Get a fairly large size bowl to prepare mixture for dipping toast in. Add your egg and whisk them. Then add half & half, vanilla, cinnamon, stevia and Hersheys cocoa. Whisk these all together. It will take a bit of whisking to incorporate the chocolate but it will after a few minutes. You can use a deeper bowl than I did so you don't get chocolate everywhere like me. hehe (Preheat oven to 350 or use toaster oven.)
• 2. Heat oil or butter in a pan. Now take one slice of bread and dip in mixture to saturate, flip it and get the other side too. Repeat for the other slice. Shake off excess, and place in pan to cook. Cook till both sides are nice and crispy brown.
• 3. Place one slice of toast on plate and generously add some cream cheese and top with some chocolate chips. Add your other slice of toast on top. Now, place your 2 slices of toast in baking dish and into oven/or toaster oven for about 5 minutes till chips are melted. Remove and plate.
• 4. Add some of the sour cherries on top of toast with several spoonfuls of the sweet liquid. Add your whipped cream, add 3 or 4 Griottines & a tbsp or so of kirsch over top and drizzle your Hershey's chocolate syrup all over french toast. Add a few more chocolate chips...now you are ready to eat the most decadent French Toast you've ever had. Relish every bite!
• 5. Chocolate ingredients that I used
• 6. Griottines and I used my sour cherry preserves but you could find them in the store too. Here is my recipe for https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/sauce-spread/jam/sour-cherry-preserves.html?p=1