Apple Raspberry Upside-Down French Toast

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 8 slices egg bread, crusts removed
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 apples, peeled,cored and sliced
• 1 cup frozen raspberries

Instructions

1. In bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla and nutmeg.
2. Arrange bread on large rimmed baking sheet; pour egg mixture over top.
3. Turn bread over, let soak until liquid is absorbed, 10 minutes.
4. (make-ahead: cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for up to 12 hours.) Spread butter in 13x9 inch glass baking dish; sprinkle evenly with brown sugar.
5. Arrange apples in slightly overlapping rows on top; sprinkle with raspberries.
6. Arrange bread on top.
7. Bake in 375F oven until puffed and golden, about 35 minutes.
8. Let stand for 5 minutes.
9. Cut between bread slices to seperate.
10. Using large lifter, invert along with apples and raspberries on each plate.
11. Variation: Peach-Upside Down French Toast.
12. Replace nutmeg with cinnamon.
13. Replace apples with 2 cans (each 14 oz/398ml) sliced peaches, drained.
14. Omit raspberries.