I made this for a family breakfast and got comments such as "This is the best baked french toast I've ever had!" So, I consider it a keeper. The main difference that I made was I made my own cinnamon raisin bread in the breadmachine - very easy and about 1 1/2 loaves from the recipe I used yielded the perfect amount. In case anyone is interested - here's the bread recipe with some changes from the recipezaar: 1 cup water 2 T butter/marg 2 cups all purpose flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 3 T white sugar 1 T brown sugar 1 1/2 t salt 2-3 t cinnamon (depending on preference) 2 1/2 t yeast 1 1/2 cups raisins (soaked in hot water before hand and added at the "add in" beep from the machine) Put the bread on the sweet bread setting with light crust. I made the bread and cubed it, then soaked it in the egg mixture I made without the cinnamon because the cinnamon was in the bread and I added a lot. I also did not add the raisins with the apples because the raisins were already in the bread. But I did include the cinnamon with the apples and brown sugar mixture. Some reviews give you different options, but I followed the recipe and put the apples on the bottom of the pan and then the bread on top. The apples kinda carmelized down there and made a wonderful syrupy part of the dish to spoon on top of the moist bread. I followed the refrigerating and baking instructions of the recipe and it turned out, like I said, fabulous. Will definitely make again!

Reviewed On: Oct. 29, 2009