Baked Apple French Toast - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 large green apples
1 stick butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
12 oz. cream cheese
12 slices firm bread
8 eggs
2 cups milk
2 Tbsp. vanilla
cinnamon

Preparation

Set rack in lower third of oven and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Butter a 9 x 13 inch pan.
Core and slice apples.
In a skillet, melt butter with brown sugar and one tablespoon water. Add apples and cook, stirring for 2 to 3 minutes.
Transfer cooked apples to the baking dish; allow to cool.
Cut cream cheese into cubes and arrange evenly over apples.
Cut slices of bread in half diagonally and layer over the apples to cover the whole dish.
In a large bowl, beat together eggs, milk and vanilla.
Pour the egg mixture over the bread, taking care to dampen all the bread. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Bake 40-50 minutes, until golden and puffed.
Let cool for 10 minutes.