Berry French Toast Bake

Ingredients:

• 1/2 loaf Italian bread cubed
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup flavored creamer (I used Irish Cream)
• 3/4 cup  milk
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp ginger
• 8 oz package cream cheese softened
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 cup rinsed blueberries
• 1 cup hulled and quatered strawberries

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Beat 3 eggs into cream and milk.  Mix in cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. 
• Pour egg mixture over bread and set aside.

• Mix sugar into cream cheese until smooth.
• Spray 8x8 pan with nonstick spray.
• Fill bottom of pan with 2/3rds of bread mixture.
• Top with 1/2 the berries.

• Dollop cream cheese over berries.

• Top with remining bread and finish off with remaining berries.

• Bake for an hour to an hour and 15 minutes checking for doneness.

***Changes I would make next time would be to use the whole loaf of bread so I have more bread mixture to cover the top.  I will probably up the eggs to 4 and the milk combo to 1 1/2 cups when I add more bread.  I would also double the cream cheese mixture.  No complaints about the original finished product though.  The kids inhaled it!