Dee's Twice-Cooked French Toast

I have to say...Dee gets extra points for this one. It was snowing and Dee had closed the store. While I was in a meeting this morning, he made me breakfast! It was delicious!!

Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 5-6 slices fo day old bread (Italian bread!)
- 1/3 cup lite syrup
- 1/3 cup 1% milk (or whatever you have)
- 1 tsp heavy cream (this could be optional)
- 1/2 tsp of cinnamon
- Butter (we used the healther stuff...some sort of margerine)
- Pinch of nutmeg
- Splash of vanilla extract
- Splash of almond extract
- Powdered sugar
- Berries (optional)

Beat the eggs and add syrup, milk, heavy cream, cinnamon, nutmeg and extracts. Soak bread in the egg batter for 30 seconds and then flip - soak for another 30 seconds, and then remove and let sit for 3-5 minutes.

Melt "butter" in 10-inch frying pan. Place 2 slices of bread at a time into the pan cook until golden brown, approximately 2 minutes per side. Then complete for all bread.

Then place in a pre-heated oven at 375 degrees for 10 minutes or so depending on thickness of bread.

This process should allow the outside to be crispy and brown and the inside to be soft. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and berries if you have them. No additional syrup is necessary, unless you like it extra sweet. Enjoy!! Dee did good! :)