Best Foods for Christmas Morning
Posted on: December 14th 2021
There’s nothing quite like waking up to the smell of sizzling bacon and freshly cooked eggs on Christmas morning. Many families treasure the tradition of Christmas morning brunch because it’s the perfect way to gather everyone around the table to enjoy delicious recipes and each other’s company. This year, you can make your family’s Christmas morning extra memorable by making a new, mouthwatering breakfast dish.
If you’re wondering what to serve on Christmas morning this year, the Christmas breakfast ideas below will provide you with plenty of tasty yuletide inspiration. Keep reading to discover a variety of delicious Christmas brunch ideas that your family might get even more excited about than the presents.
Top 27 Christmas Breakfast Ideas
Check out the following 27 Christmas brunch ideas to make your Christmas morning tastier than ever:
1. Gingerbread Muffins
Gingerbread muffins are full of warm winter flavors, including molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar, with a hint of citrus. These moist and flavorful spiced muffins are also a convenient addition to your Christmas morning brunch spread because they are a handheld snack, leaving the other hand free to open presents. The best part is you only need one bowl to mix the gingerbread muffin batter, making cleanup quick and easy.
2. Gingerbread Loaf Cake
You can switch up the muffin form and still get all the yummy flavors of gingerbread by making a gingerbread loaf cake this Christmas. A gingerbread loaf cake packs the same amount of cinnamon and nutmeg as gingerbread muffins, with a bit more sugar to give your Christmas morning a sugar rush. Baking a gingerbread loaf cake makes it easy to slice custom-sized pieces for each member of your family.
3. Monkey Bread
Monkey bread is the perfect sweet treat for Christmas morning because it smells amazing and allows holiday brunch grazers to pull off as many chunks of bread as they want. Plus, this cinnamon sugary pull-apart bread is easy to make when you use pre-made refrigerated biscuit dough. All you have to do is slice the biscuit dough into smaller pieces, roll them in cinnamon and sugar, and bake!
4. Hot Chocolate Pancakes
Why limit hot chocolate to sipping? Hot chocolate pancakes take everything you love about this favorite cozy beverage and transform it into a decadent, chocolatey stack of pancakes. Adding hot cocoa mix directly to your pancake batter makes this hot chocolate-inspired breakfast dish taste authentic. As a bonus, top off your hot chocolate pancakes with mini marshmallows to create the ultimate comfort food for your Christmas morning.
5. Poached Eggs
Poaching is one of the most delicious ways to prepare this classic breakfast food. The texture of a poached egg is delightfully soft, giving the egg a runny yolk that’s perfect for enjoying with toast, bacon, hashbrowns, or any other breakfast side. If you want to really treat yourself and your loved ones this Christmas, use your poached eggs to make eggs benedict — a delicious dish of perfectly poached eggs, fluffy English muffins, savory Canadian bacon, and mouthwatering hollandaise sauce.
6. Hearty Steak and Eggs Hash
Want to serve something savory this Christmas that will get your family even more excited than opening the presents under the tree? Try making a hearty steak and eggs hash. Full of satisfying steak and bold flavors like paprika, garlic, and coriander, this hash is sure to keep your family filled until Christmas dinner.
If you want to stick with a more traditional breakfast meal, try making a classic corned beef hash on Christmas morning. Your family will love the saltiness of the corned beef paired with the more subtle flavors of runny eggs over seasoned potatoes. This dish is also perfect for prepping the night before so that all you have to do on Christmas morning is cook the ingredients in a skillet and serve.
7. Classic Cinnamon Rolls
Cinnamon rolls are a Christmas morning staple for a reason — they are sweet, fluffy, and fun to eat. Whether your family prefers eating their cinnamon rolls layer by layer or diving right in, you can’t go wrong with popping a fresh batch of cinnamon rolls in the oven on Christmas morning. The wafts of cinnamon and other spices in the air will make your holiday memories complete.
8. Blueberry Scones
Scones are an excellent Christmas breakfast food because they are easy to snack on and sweet, but not so sweet that you’ll feel so overloaded on sugar that you can’t sneak in some extra Christmas cookies. Specifically, blueberry scones are a refreshing Christmas treat that sneaks a bit of berry goodness into your morning meal. If you decide to make blueberry scones this holiday season, cut the butter into the dry ingredients to ensure the pastries come out as flaky as possible.
9. Maple Scones
If you want a more winter-themed scone than blueberry, try making a batch of maple scones. Maple scones have the same beautiful, flaky texture as other scones but with deeper, more spiced flavors like cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and molasses. What really puts maple scones over the top is their delicate maple glaze. The light, sweet glaze ties together the scones’ spices in perfect harmony to make your Christmas morning extra merry.
10. Cinnamon Sugar Donuts
There’s nothing quite like cinnamon sugar donuts alongside a steaming mug of Christmas morning coffee. You can make baked cinnamon sugar donuts to put a slightly healthier spin on the traditional donut and make the prep and cleanup work a bit simpler. Family members of all ages will love grabbing a homemade cinnamon sugar donut before sitting down to open presents together.
11. Classic Country Ham Breakfast
A classic country ham breakfast is a great way to bring more salty, savory flavors into the generally sweet dishes served on Christmas morning. Cooking up some country ham and serving it alongside a basic fried eggs and potatoes breakfast will kick-start your family’s Christmas and keep everyone feeling full and satisfied until your Christmas dinner feast.
12. Eggnog Coffee Cake
Eggnog is one of the tastiest seasonal beverages to enjoy during the holidays. Now, you can enjoy all the flavors of eggnog in the form of coffee cake. The batter for eggnog coffee cake contains actual eggnog and rum, giving your cake the genuine eggnog taste. As if an eggnog coffee cake isn’t delicious enough, adding a streusel topping provides a delightful crunch that makes the cake’s texture irresistible.
13. Sausage, Broccoli and Cheese Quiche
A quiche is a wonderful, warming dish to make for Christmas brunch. This sophisticated egg dish will add some richness and intense savory flavors to your otherwise sugar-loaded Christmas morning. A sausage, broccoli and cheese quiche is an especially tasty way to enjoy this delicious egg dish. If you have some picky eaters in your family, try making this more basic three-cheese and bacon quiche.
14. Sweet Biscuits
Biscuits are a versatile breakfast food that tastes equally delicious when made savory or sweet. Because Christmas morning is the perfect time to make everything as sugary as possible, serving up some sweet biscuits is a surefire way to get your family in the festive spirit. You can pair your Christmas brunch biscuits with other sweet toppings like maple syrup, jam, cranberry sauce, and more.
15. Orange Cranberry Waffles
Just when your family thinks waffles couldn’t possibly get any better, you can introduce them to orange cranberry waffles on Christmas morning. Putting the seasonal fruity flavors of orange and cranberry in fresh, fluffy waffles is a breakfast treat you have to taste to believe. If you want your homemade orange cranberry waffles to taste as delicious as possible, spread some cinnamon whipped butter on top of them.
16. Banana-Loaded Pancakes
Banana-loaded pancakes are like tiny rounds of fresh-baked banana bread you get to top with maple syrup, slices of banana, and whipped cream. Lucky for you, banana-loaded pancake batter is easy to make and even easier to customize with all your family’s favorite mix-ins. If you want to get really fancy, you can sprinkle some chopped walnuts or chocolate chips into your banana-loaded pancakes for some extra texture.
17. Apple Pancakes
If you want to add another type of pancakes to your family’s Christmas brunch menu, apple pancakes are one of the yummiest pancake options to choose. Each apple pancake is like a personal apple pie you get to top with whatever you want. If you don’t want to wait until the end of dinner to have dessert on Christmas, whip up a batch of apple pancakes for your family.
18. Maple Breakfast Sausage
Maple breakfast sausage provides the perfect balance of savory, salty sausage meat with the pure sweetness of maple syrup. Once you try this sweet and savory combination, you’ll never go back to regular breakfast sausage. Jazz up your Christmas brunch by cooking up some homemade maple breakfast sausage. All you have to do is mix ground meat, maple syrup, and seasonings, and heat the patties in a large skillet to get sizzling maple sausage.
19. Peppermint Chocolate Donuts
Peppermint and chocolate make an iconic Christmas flavor duo because they play off of each other perfectly. The light, refreshing taste of peppermint is a match made in heaven for the deeper, more intense flavors of dark chocolate. Using this culinary power couple to make baked peppermint chocolate donuts will make your Christmas breakfast one to remember.
20. Breakfast Tacos
Turn your Christmas morning into a fiesta with breakfast tacos. Make your Christmas breakfast tacos special by using pancakes as the taco shells and filling them with delicious ingredients like scrambled eggs, ham, bell peppers, and cheese. If you want to make your Christmas brunch a bit more savory, these Mexican breakfast tacos feature spicy chorizo sausage and go great with singing “Feliz Navidad.”
21. Candy Cane Danish
Shaping your cherry danishes into festive candy canes is a creative way to embrace the holiday season. As if these fruit-and-cream-cheese-stuffed pastries weren’t yummy enough, creating them to look like candy canes adds a fun twist that makes them even more appealing. If your family would prefer a flavor other than cherry, you can swap the cherry pie filling for any other type of fruity filling.
22. Bacon Breakfast Casserole
What could be easier than popping a breakfast casserole into the oven on Christmas morning? This time-saving dish is a convenient way to provide a delicious brunch for the family without spending half of your Christmas morning in the kitchen. A bacon breakfast casserole, in particular, is bursting with the mouthwatering flavors of bacon, eggs, and cheese that your family will love.
23. Cardamom Buns
Start a new Christmas tradition this year by making cardamom buns for the morning. Cardamom buns are a tasty Swedish recipe that you can think of as a cross between pull-apart bread and a cinnamon roll. These spiced breakfast buns are light, fluffy, and full of delicious flavors. In addition to tasting delightful, cardamom buns will look beautiful on your coffee table.
24. Citrus Fruit Salad
The holiday season is the perfect time for citrus fruit. A citrus and pomegranate fruit salad incorporates some of winter’s most beloved fruits, resulting in a bowl brimming with juicy and refreshing ingredients. This lighter dish is a great addition to your Christmas breakfast spread for anyone who’s craving something sweet yet light enough to save room for the big Christmas dinner later.
25. Red and Green Fruit Salad
If you want to make your Christmas brunch extra holly jolly, try whipping up a red and green fruit salad. This Christmastime fruit salad consists of green grapes, green apple slices, kiwi, red apple slices, red grapes, red raspberries, and pomegranate arils. Mixing these fruits results in a delicious red-and-green masterpiece that looks like Christmas in a bowl.
26. Maple Granola
Maple granola is a heart-warming breakfast item that’ll surely make your Christmas morning extra cozy. You can easily make your own maple granola and fill your home with wafts of warm spices by following this Christmas granola recipe. The recipe will give you a slightly sweet and fragrant granola with a holiday twist of dried cranberries and unshelled pistachios.
27. Simple Scrambled Eggs
Sometimes it’s best to keep things simple on Christmas morning. If you’d rather focus on watching the kids open presents and helping assemble new toys than cook on Christmas, stick with making a big batch of scrambled eggs for your family to enjoy. Scrambled eggs are the ideal Christmas breakfast dish because they are extremely easy to make, require little time, and please even the pickiest eaters. Use this basic scrambled eggs recipe and add whatever mix-ins your family may want, such as cheese, ham, peppers, or tomatoes.
Have a Happy Holiday With These Christmas Breakfast Recipes
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