43 Christmas Breakfast Ideas the Whole Family Will Love

Updated November 06, 2019
Need some Christmas breakfast ideas? We’ve got you covered. These craveable breakfasts bake in large batches—each recipe feeds four or more people—so you don’t have to feel like a line cook. Some of these Christmas breakfasts can even be made ahead of time, so you can spend the morning with your loved ones instead of in the kitchen.
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Eggs Benedict Casserole

Start to finish: 4 hrs 45 mins
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An eggs benedict casserole is not only delicious, hearty and filling, but it also gives you the ingredients and taste you love from eggs Benedict in an easy, make-ahead form that is perfect for Christmas morning. We suggest making the sauce while your casserole cooks and serving the final product with some fresh fruit.

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Raisin-Cardamom Overnight French Toast

Start to finish: 9 hrs 30 mins
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This healthy breakfast casserole recipe has a good dose of cardamom, so if it's not your favorite spice, reduce it to 1 teaspoon and add 2 teaspoons cinnamon.

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Baked Asparagus & Cheese Frittata

Start to finish: 1 hr
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Perfect for brunch, this Italian omelet is baked so it is easy to serve to a group.

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Cinnamon-Ginger Spiced Pear Muffins

Start to finish: 1 hr
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These perfectly spiced muffins make for a sweet addition to your Christmas morning spread!

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Egg-in-a-Hole with Spinach & Bacon

Start to finish: 40 mins
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This traditional breakfast dish is elevated with festive green spinach and savory bacon for a Christmas-worthy meal.

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Pecan-Berry Coffee Cake

Start to finish: 3 hrs 30 mins
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This scrumptious coffee cake recipe has a crumbly pecan topping and is speckled with blueberries or raspberries. You'll never guess there's apple in the berry coffee cake: it replaces some of the butter found in most coffee cakes and adds a decidedly sweet taste and moist crumb. This is a great recipe to serve at brunch and can be made the day before.

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Sheet-Pan Egg Sandwiches for a Crowd

Start to finish: 50 mins
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Hosting a crowd for the holidays or another occasion? Forget cooking individual servings of eggs and make these easy sheet-pan egg sandwiches instead. One batch makes enough bacon, egg, cheese and vegetable sandwiches to serve 12 people in the time you'd normally spend prepping breakfast for one or two people.

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Blueberry-Pecan Pancakes

Start to finish: 30 mins
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Dried blueberries give these pancakes a rich blueberry flavor and pecans liven up the texture with a bit of crunch.

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Sweet Potato, Sausage & Goat Cheese Egg Casserole

Start to finish: 1 hr 20 mins
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This hearty breakfast casserole is the perfect dish to prepare for your holiday  brunch gathering.

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Apple Puffed Oven Pancake

Start to finish: 45 mins
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Apple pie spice is a blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves or ginger. If you don't have any on hand, you can substitute cinnamon and a dash of cloves in the recipe.

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Tomato, Spinach & Asparagus Strata

Start to finish: 6 hrs
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A colorful, delicious bake of eggs and whole wheat bread layered with asparagus, spinach, tomatoes and feta cheese makes a special breakfast or brunch entree. Best of all, you can make it ahead of time to make Christmas morning a breeze.

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Potato-Kale Hash with Eggs

Start to finish: 45 mins
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This potato and kale hash recipe is just as fun to make as it is to eat. After the potatoes and kale are roasted, the hash is formed into 4 individual “nests” that are finished with an egg in the middle. To keep the prep work to a minimum, use pre-chopped kale, found near other prepared cooking greens. If you'd rather chop your own, start with about 1 bunch and strip the leaves off the stems before chopping.

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Banana Bread French Toast

Start to finish: 25 mins
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Take banana bread to the next level when you soak it in a classic French toast batter and fry it for an impressive (but oh so easy!) breakfast or brunch. Top with chopped walnuts, sliced bananas and maple syrup for extra decadence.

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Slow-Cooker Kale & Gruyere Strata with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Start to finish: 4 hrs
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For a lazy-morning breakfast or when hosting a brunch, make this easy vegetarian recipe your game plan. Be sure to use crusty, freshly baked bread from the bakery section of your supermarket instead of a premade loaf from the bread aisle. Serve with seasonal fruit and juice to balance the richness of the egg and cheese.

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Buttermilk-Oatmeal Pancakes

Start to finish: 50 mins
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Start your day in a hearty, high-grain way with these buttermilk-oatmeal pancakes. Maple syrup is a perennial favorite atop a stack of these pancakes; sliced bananas would also complement their oat flavor.

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Baked Eggs with Roasted Vegetables

Start to finish: 9 hrs 25 mins
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With 11 grams of protein in each serving, this recipe is great for breakfast. Start preparation the day before and chill overnight for minimal work in the morning.

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Upside-Down Cinnamon-Pecan Coffee Cake

Start to finish: 1 hr 30 mins
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Layering the ingredients in this coffee cake recipe right into the pan lets you skip the steps of making the batter and the nut topping separately. To make this healthy one-bowl dessert so it can be served like pull-apart rolls, dollop 16 equal portions of batter over the nuts. If you don't want to fuss with that, dollop the batter on top however you like.

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Quiche Lorraine with Zucchini Crust

Start to finish: 1 hr 30 mins
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Shredded zucchini acts as the crust in this recipe for healthier, low-carb quiche Lorraine—quiche with Jarlsberg cheese, bacon and scallions—a brunch classic.

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Cauliflower & Kale Frittata

Start to finish: 45 mins
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Inspired by traditional Spanish tortillas made with potatoes, this healthy frittata recipe swaps potatoes for low-carb cauliflower. Serve it along with kale (or your favorite greens) for brunch.

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Cherry-Walnut Stuffed Monkey Bread

Start to finish: 9 hrs 15 mins
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Monkey bread is a sweet bread made up of many small pieces of dough that are baked together into a single, large pastry. Each piece of monkey bread in this recipe contains a cherry and toasted walnut center, and a maple-brown sugar syrup coating.

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Tomato-Parmesan Mini Quiches

Start to finish: 50 mins
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These individual mini quiches are a fun take on a traditional quiche. Leftovers can be refrigerated or frozen for an easy breakfast later in the week.

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Sun-Dried Tomato, Thyme & Asiago Scones

Start to finish: 45 mins
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No bakery degree required for this recipe: these healthy, savory sun-dried tomato-and-Asiago scones are as easy to make as a batch of muffins. White whole-wheat flour adds a boost of fiber, and just enough butter gives them great flavor and texture without going overboard on calories.

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Gingerbread Pancakes

Start to finish: 45 mins
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These spicy gingerbread pancakes are delectable served with maple syrup, vanilla cream or warm lemon sauce.

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Soft-Boiled Eggs & Soldiers

Start to finish: 10 mins
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Soft-boiled eggs with toast soldiers are a classic English breakfast. Simply cut toast into strips and serve with dippy eggs for a fun, kid-friendly breakfast recipe. This recipe serves one, but can easily be multiplied to feed a crowd.

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Fruitcake Overnight French Toast

Start to finish: 9 hrs 30 mins
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A combination of candied orange peel, dried cherries and pumpkin pie spice gives this healthy breakfast casserole recipe fruitcake-like flavor. To make it more authentic, add 2 tablespoons brandy along with the milk. Serve with pure maple syrup.

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Yeasted Waffles

Start to finish: 4 hrs 50 mins
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Once you taste the rich, tangy flavor that yeast adds to this whole-grain waffle recipe, you'll never want to go back to plain waffles. To save time on Christmas morning, make the batter up to three days ahead and refrigerate it until you’re ready to use.

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Kale & Roasted Sweet Potato Hash

Start to finish: 35 mins
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This one-pan hash makes an easy fall dinner or a simple dish for a healthy brunch. You can even poach the eggs ahead of time—slip them into steaming-hot water to rewarm them just before serving.

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Sausage and Potato Casserole Cups

Start to finish: 55 mins
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These sausage and potato casserole cups are the perfect addition to any special breakfast or brunch.

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Sugar & Spice Biscuits

Start to finish: 25 mins
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Serve these low-fat biscuits for Christmas breakfast or brunch. Family and guests will love the sweet flavor and the pretty fan shapes.

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Bacon & Spinach Quiche with Hash Brown Crust

Start to finish: 1 hr 30 mins
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Hash browns meet quiche in this healthy recipe. Shredded potatoes create a gluten-free crust for this bacon and spinach-studded quiche that's sure to be a crowd-pleasing breakfast or brunch.

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Best Blueberry Pancakes

Start to finish: 35 mins
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Serve with maple syrup, lemon-mint cream or blueberry syrup.

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Baked Eggs, Tomatoes & Chiles (Shakshuka)

Start to finish: 1 hr 30 mins
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This popular Israeli breakfast or brunch skillet recipe features eggs cooked on a bed of roasted tomato sauce. Serve with warm crusty bread and hot sauce.

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Chocolate-Cherry Scones

Start to finish: 45 mins
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No bakery degree required for this recipe: these healthy chocolate-and-cherry scones are as easy to make as a batch of muffins. White whole-wheat flour adds a boost of fiber, and just enough butter gives them great flavor and texture without going overboard on calories. For a sweeter scone, drizzle with the optional scone glaze.

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Herbed Ricotta Mini Quiches

Start to finish: 55 mins
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Whole-wheat sandwich bread makes for a crust that's easy to cut and stuff into muffin tins in this easy quiche recipe—if you have kids, this is a great cooking task for them to help with. You can use the leftover bread scraps to make fresh breadcrumbs. As beaten eggs heat, steam releases, creating air pockets that make these quiches rise and puff out of the muffin tin, like a soufflé. Be sure to grab the kids when you take the pan out of the oven so they can see the magic.

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German Apple Pancake

Start to finish: 1 hr 10 mins
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A judicious use of butter and sugar gives this classic German apple pancake—also known as a Dutch baby—less than a third of the fat and considerably fewer calories than the original breakfast treat. The topping—sautéed apples glazed with apple-cider syrup—is wonderful on oatmeal, waffles and frozen yogurt too.

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Apple-Cheddar Ham & Egg Casserole

Start to finish: 1 hr 30 mins
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This casserole featuring eggs, cheese, ham and fennel makes a perfect breakfast for Christmas Day. It serves 8, but would be easy to double for a crowd. 

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Gluten-Free Cinnamon Rolls

Start to finish: 2 hrs
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These rolls are wonderfully fluffy and packed with cinnamon flavor—you'd never know they're gluten-free. Plus, with only one rise time, this recipe is quicker to make than other yeasted doughs.

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Apple, Bacon & Sweet Potato Mini Casseroles

Start to finish: 1 hr
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These sweet and savory mini casseroles are ready in just an hour. Refrigerate or freeze the leftovers to enjoy later.

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Green Shakshuka with Spinach, Chard & Feta

Start to finish: 30 mins
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The inspiration for this green shakshuka recipe comes from HaBasta, a popular restaurant on the edge of Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, where the shakshuka is packed with green chard and spinach and a little hot pepper provides just a touch of spice. Serve with pita or crusty bread to sop up the sauce for a quick brunch.

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Cranberry-Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

Start to finish: 1 hr
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This cranberry-pecan cinnamon roll recipe is a cinch to put together—there's no kneading and no rolling of any dough. These rolls are baked in a muffin tin and are already perfectly portioned, making them great for a morning treat or as part of a brunch menu.

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Mini Quiches with Sweet Potato Crust

Start to finish: 30 mins
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Shredded sweet potato hash browns make up the healthy crust of these gluten-free muffin-tin quiches.

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