I have made the french toast both ways where you pour the ingredients over it and bake and also cooking it up first and then layering it.
I actually like to cook mine a little first using the the traditional egg/milk/vanilla/sugar/ cinnamon batter fried in a pan and then I layer it in a greased pan with cream cheese and jam.
You can do it without cooking it first too but its a little more soggy or you have to cook it longer.
There is a nice thick bread you can buy at the market just for french toast and it works great with this.
You soften the cream cheese until you can kind of spread it a little on each slice as you layer it and then do the same with the jam.
You bake it at 325 although I have done it at 350 as well when I am in a hurry and then part way through drizzle maple syrup on it if you please.
Rosalind I know you have maple syrup.

I really just bake it until its at the texture I like, heated through and melty.
I have added bananas to this and also just done the bananas on their own with the cream cheese, extra cinnamon sprinkled throughout and some walnuts.
Another thing I do sometimes is when I make the batter I add almond extract to it rather than the vanilla if works better with a particular fruit I am using.
Sometimes I sprinkle confectioner's sugar on top or some whip cream.
Darn, now I want this right mow. I'll have to make this tomorrow myself.
There are many variations you can try with this depending what you have on hand.
Sorry the recipe is so informal but its all from years of doing it without ever writing it all down but I am sure there are tons of recipes online.]
Its so easy though you could follow this and fool around with whatever you have on hand and it will work out fine.