Chocolate Cherry Bread at L'Amande

Believe it or not, I was not the first person to get this bread. My friend Sandi beat me to it! How dare she.. Guilt set in so she felt she had to buy me a loaf when it made it's touch down at exactly 11:30 a.m. today at L'Amande Bakery in Torrance.

What a delightful bread. I sliced me a piece of this freshly baked crusty bread with cherries and applied some Philadelphia chocolate cream cheese which enhanced the chocolate flavor. For chocolate lovers, it couldn't be better. My husband thought the chocolate spread overpowered the bread (what does he know).  If you choose not to add more chocolate, perhaps just the regular cream cheese would suffice. For the less adventurous, butter will do.