60 Easy Christmas Breakfast and Brunch Recipes

These Christmas Breakfast recipes are easy, delicious, and festive for Christmas brunch. Perfect to make ahead or serve any time during the holidays.

If you're looking for easy breakfast ideas, try this easy Christmas Breakfast Charcuterie Board filled with simple ideas or these 5-minute Christmas Pancake Stacks.

Christmas Breakfast and Brunch Recipes

From make-ahead breakfast casseroles to charcuterie boards, hot chocolate bars, coffee, pastries, muffins, and more, you'll find delicious ideas for sweet and savory recipes to create the perfect Christmas breakfast.

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Hot Chocolate Bar + The Best Hot Chocolate Recipe | Little Spice Jar

Learn how to host a hot chocolate bar party with everything that you need and how to make the most amazing slow cooker hot chocolate recipe.

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Tips for Creating a Holiday Coffee + Hot Chocolate Bar

THIS POST IS SPONSORED BY COFFEEMATE While we were up in Flagstaff recently, we setup a coffee and hot chocolate bar for our guests! It's that time of year when you may be hosting family and guests and this idea is a perfect morning surprise! Or, use our ideas to host a gathering for your girlfriends…

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Easy Christmas Breakfast Charcuterie Board

Set a festive mood with this easy Christmas Breakfast Charcuterie Board that's simple to put together. Filled with delicious holiday treats that are both sweet and savory, including fresh fruit, mini quiche, pastries, yogurt, granola, and more. It's a 5-minute holiday brunch charcuterie board everyone will love.

Christmas Breakfast Charcuterie Board

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Ham and Cheese Quiche Recipe

Make your breakfast or brunch extra special with this easy and delicious ham and cheese quiche recipe. Perfect for holidays or any occasion!

Ham and Cheese Quiche

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Egg and Potato Casserole

Make this quick and easy casserole for Sunday brunch or breakfast any day of the week!

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www.cookingclassy.com

Overnight Eggs Benedict Casserole - Cooking Classy

Eggs Benedict Casserole is the perfect holiday breakfast! It's brimming with salty Canadian bacon, rich eggs, hearty English muffins and it's finished off with a creamy, flavorful hollandaise sauce.

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5 Minute Christmas Mini Pancake Stacks

These Christmas Mini Pancake Stacks are the quickest, cutest, easiest holiday breakfast or brunch pancake skewers you'll ever make. With ready-made ingredients, fresh fruit, and festive skewers, they are sure to liven up the party for kids and adults alike.

Pancake Stacks

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Deliciously Easy Asparagus Mini Cheese Tarts

These Asparagus and Cheese Mini Tarts are an easy, favorite treat for afternoon tea, brunch, or any time asparagus is in season. A simple tart that's minutes in the making.

Mini Cheese Tarts

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Easy Mini Quiche Recipe

Homemade Mini Quiche is so incredibly easy to make, you'll find yourself skipping the freezer section of your market. Delicious party food, teatime snack (or coffee break too), this recipe shows you how simple it is to make 3 different mini quiche varieties in one mini muffin tin.

Mini Quiche Recipe

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Chocolate Chip Croissant Bread Pudding

"The most epic Chocolate Chip Croissant Bread Pudding for all those stay at home brunch celebrations with your family!"

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Sausage Breakfast Casserole

This Sausage Breakfast Casserole is a savory, make-ahead baked casserole you will love. It's rich in flavor with toasted croissants, dreamy custard, browned sausage, and onion. It's a holiday-worthy meal for breakfast or brunch that's as simple as it can be.

Sausage Breakfast Casserole

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Easy Sweet Potato Breakfast Casserole

This Sweet Potato Breakfast Casserole is an undeniably delicious way to begin Christmas day. It's an easy, meatless egg casserole that is packed with wholesome ingredients like sweet potatoes, bell peppers, spinach, and incredible spices that combine all the flavors beautifully!

Sweet Potato Breakfast Casserole

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Open-Face Egg and Griddled Ham Breakfast Sandwiches Recipe

These easy and adorable breakfast sliders are the perfect brunch dish. Get the recipe from Food & Wine.

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Sheet Pan French Toast (Naturally Sweetened)

Say hello to this easy French Toast recipe! Effortless and delicious in minutes, without standing at the stove! And a Lemon Mascarpone you'll love!

Easy French Toast Recipe

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Fluffy Pancake Recipe

This fluffy pancake recipe is one you'll want to memorize. It's simple, easy, quick... and utterly delicious! A perfect stack of thick pancakes for weekends or holidays.

Fluffy Pancake Recipe

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Swedish Pancakes Recipe

Homemade Swedish Pancakes are a vision of beauty with their lacey crisp edges and light, thin batter. Much like French crêpes, they're made quickly in a shallow skillet and folded or rolled into a delectable breakfast or snack with delicious fresh berries and jam.

Swedish Pancakes

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Cranberry Orange Muffins (Refined-Sugar Free)

These Cranberry Orange Muffins are a healthier, 100% whole grain, naturally sweetened version of a classic holiday favorite. Bursting with cranberry and orange flavors, and warm spices too, these soft and tender muffins are a festive addition to your holiday table!

Cranberry Muffins Recipe

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Ginger Pecan Cranberry Scones

Ginger Pecan Cranberry Scones, a cozy holiday treat, made perfect with a cup of tea. Or with coffee on Christmas morning. Festive, easy, and delicious. Each bite is like a taste of the holidays.

Cranberry Scones Recipe

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Easy Bacon and Egg Tart

Welcome spring with this Breakfast Tart with Bacon and Eggs on puff pastry. It's perfect for a season of brunch, Easter, and spring gatherings. Easy to make... and utterly delicious!

Easy Bacon and Egg Tart

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Almond Cinnamon Babka Star Bread

Almond Cinnamon Babka Star Bread is an elegant, pull-apart sweet bread, intensely flavored with cinnamon, almonds, and raisins. Soft and tender, and addictive. A perfect holiday bread, like Christmas or Easter, or delicious with morning coffee!

Babka Star Bread

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Holiday Gingerbread Waffles

Festive and robustly flavored Gingerbread Waffles are the perfect Christmas morning breakfast. A treat that will live on in the memories of those you love.

Gingerbread Waffles

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Easy Apple Strudel

This Easy Apple Strudel recipe, or Apfelstrudel, is a centuries-old classic made easy with store-bought pastry. Perfect for entertaining, bake sales, or simply inviting the neighbors over for tea... and strudel.

Apple Strudel Recipe

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Easy Cranberry Cream Cheese Danish

These easy Cranberry Cream Cheese Danishes will bring the holidays to your table! Twirls of flaky puff pastry are braided over layers of sweetened cream cheese and a delicious cranberry filling with hints of cinnamon and citrus. Every bite of this glazed braided danish is holiday-worthy!

Cranberry Cream Danish Recipe

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Make Ahead Vegetable Breakfast Casserole

A make-ahead egg breakfast casserole fills up your crowd before the festivities begin! Lots of protein, lots of energy for the day!

Vegetable Breakfast Casserole

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Christmas-Morning Casserole Recipe

This make-ahead casserole, with irresistible bites of pepperoni, mushrooms and lots of gooey cheese, is as good for dinner as it is for breakfast.

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Easy Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole Recipe

This Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole is an easy and delicious casserole, perfect for a weekend brunch, holiday morning, or simply to make ahead for the week. This savory breakfast casserole is packed with flavor and everything you love for breakfast. It's made with hashbrowns, eggs, bacon, and cheese. Perfect for a make-ahead breakfast.

Hashbrown Breakfast Casserole

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Easy Homemade Biscuit Recipe

Make your morning brighter with these easy biscuit recipes. Whip up a batch of buttery, fluffy biscuits that are perfect with a drizzle of honey and a cup of tea or coffee.

Homemade Biscuits

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Easy Bacon Spinach Quiche

This Easy Bacon, Cheese, and Spinach Quiche recipe is familiarly delicious and simply executed with a mere 10 minutes or less of prep.

Bacon Spinach Quiche Recipe

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Easy Homemade Eggnog Recipe (non-alcoholic)

This Easy Homemade Eggnog is thick, sweet, smooth and super creamy! This nonalcoholic drink is easy to make at home for the holidays!

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Swedish Tea Ring: Festive Sweet Bread

Christmas Swedish Tea Ring, filled with cinnamon, sugar, and raisins and topped with a simple powdered sugar glaze, is a beautiful and delicious Scandinavian recipe for the holiday season!

Swedish Tea Ring Recipe

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Easy Petit Pain au Chocolat (Chocolate Croissants)

If you love Pain au Chocolat, otherwise known as Chocolate Croissants, you will be over the moon with this easy, I mean incredibly easy adaptation on the traditional French Pain au Chocolat.

Easy Chocolate Croissant Recipe

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Easy Drop Biscuit Recipe (Drop Scones)

This Drop Biscuit Recipe is delicious soft, tender, and buttery-- you won't stop at one! Ready in minutes for breakfast, teatime, or snacking!

Drop Biscuits Recipe

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Crescent Bacon Breakfast Ring

This beautiful Crescent Bacon Breakfast Ring will be everyone's weekend breakfast of choice, it's loaded with bacon, eggs and cheese.

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Ham and Cheese Croissants

Ham and Cheese Croissants are foolproof bakery style meals easy to make with 5 minutes prep and will remind your of your favorite coffee shop.

Ham and Cheese Croissants

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Easy Classic Spinach Quiche

This easy Classic Spinach Quiche, in the tradition of Quiche Florentine, is a soft and custardy quiche that's simple to make, utterly delicious, and perfect for brunch or tea.

Spinach Quiche Recipe

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Festive Christmas Eve Tea Sandwiches

These delightful Christmas Eve Tea Sandwiches bring the holiday spirit to any occasion! Create vibrant red, white, & green sandwiches in minutes with spinach, roasted red peppers, & mozzarella. Perfect for any festive buffet!

Christmas Tea Sandwiches

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Spinach, Ham and Cheese Strata Recipe

This Spinach, Ham and Cheese Strata is a breakfast casserole, perfect for a holiday brunch. It's incredibly delicious and simple, simple, simple.

Spinach, Ham and Cheese Strata

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Easy Christmas Granola Recipe

Christmas Granola is an easy, healthy homemade treat packed with wholesome grains, nuts, and fruit, that tastes like Christmas in every bite. Perfect for Christmas food gifts!

Christmas Granola

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Apple Dutch Baby

This Apple Dutch Baby, or German pancakes, is an oven-baked puffed pancake, deliciously perfect in the fall apple season, and always a popular breakfast treat.

Apple Dutch Baby Recipe

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Blueberry Amish Baked Oatmeal

Blueberry Amish Baked Oatmeal is a cozy, hearty breakfast that's healthy and oh-so-satisfyingly delicious. Crispy oats warmed with cinnamon and sweetened with blueberries. It's a breakfast and healthy snack to love.

Amish Baked Oatmeal Recipe

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Cheesy Hash Brown Cups Recipe | Simply Potatoes

These hash brown, egg, sausage and veggie morsels make a clever presentation for weekend breakfast or brunch!

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Easy Overnight Sausage Breakfast Casserole with Kale

"When you're serving a crowd or preparing for brunch, nothing could be more simple than this Easy Overnight Egg Bake with Sausage and Kale. Prep the breakfast brunch casserole the night before and it's ready to pop into the oven the next morning, 35 minutes before serving."

Overnight Sausage Breakfast Casserole

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Make Ahead Quiche Bacon Spinach Quiche

Make-Ahead Quiche with Bacon, Cheese, and Spinach is a delicious and easy freezer-friendly, easy recipe for afternoon tea, brunch, or even dinner.

Make Ahead Bacon Spinach Quiche

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Crumpet Recipe

Make delicious homemade crumpets with this easy recipe. Perfect for teatime or breakfast, enjoy these tasty treats with butter and jam.

Crumpet Recipe

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Make Ahead Mini Frittatas in Muffin Tins

Make these mini frittatas ahead and have them ready for Christmas morning. Easy to make 3 ways, with simple ingredients, savory flavors, and healthy vegetables. Simple to make in muffin tins, these frittatas will satisfy everyone around your table!

Mini Frittatas Recipe

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Gingerbread Scones

Gingerbread Scones bring instant holiday coziness to your home with these flavorful, delicious scones-tender with cream and molasses and warmly spiced with the season's best flavors. Pour yourself a warm cup of tea, and enjoy this Christmas treat!

Gingerbread Scones

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Baked Blackberry Ricotta French Toast.

Not only is this french toast incredibly easy, it's also better than any other french toast you've ever had. Soft, buttery, sweet, and filled with blackberry jam, ricotta cheese and fresh blackberries. It's the perfect brunch entrée for both spring and summer gatherings.

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Cranberry Orange Loaf

A delicious bread filled with the flavors and scents of the season, perfect for Christmas morning.

Cranberry Orange Bread

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Lighter Christmas Cake with Apple and Fruit

This Christmas Cake is a delicious and moist cake packed with dried fruit, citrus zest, and applesauce. And with every bite, you will taste the holidays.

Christmas Cake Recipe

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SunShine Egg and Bacon Cups

Simple and individual egg muffins with toast and bacon. A fun and easy Christmas morning breakfast!

Egg and Bacon Cups

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Eggs Benedict Bake

"Impress holiday guests with an easy breakfast recipe that has all the wow factor of homemade eggs benedict and none of the fuss. It takes less than a half-hour to bake, and much of the preparation can be done the day before."

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Amish Baked Oatmeal with Apples

Make this ahead and reheat on Christmas morning. Although, for me, it's just as delicious cold as warm!

Apple Amish Baked Oatmeal

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Make Ahead Ham and Asparagus Strata Recipe

This Make-Ahead Ham and Asparagus Strata recipe is an easy custardy, bready, cheesy breakfast or brunch casserole that's always a crowd-pleaser. Perfect for spring brunch, Easter, or Mother's Day.

Ham and Asparagus Strata

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Peanut Butter Banana Baked Oatmeal Recipe

Baked Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal is a healthy, make-ahead breakfast recipe that kids and adults alike love. Delicious served warm from the oven, and just as yummy as a cold afternoon snack.

Peanut Butter Banana Baked Oatmeal

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Apple Cinnamon Rolls

Homemade apple cinnamon rolls are the ultimate apple dessert. Big and fluffy rolls with warm and gooey centers filled with fresh apples, and generous drizzles of maple icing.

Apple Cinnamon Rolls

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Easy Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

This warm from the oven Homemade Cinnamon Rolls recipe is a deliciously decadent, gooey cinnamon bun that's easier to make than you might think! Especially when you're craving true comfort food -- all year long!

Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

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Puff Pastry Cranberry Star Bread

Make this quick and easy Cranberry Star Bread for your holiday celebrations. No need for rising, just twist and bake this festive treat!

Cranberry Star Bread

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Croissant Bread Pudding Recipe

Croissant Bread Pudding is an ultimate comfort food treat. Whether that be for breakfast, dessert, or a late-night snack. Utterly delicious, it's decadent and incredibly easy to make, filled with berries, and drizzled with vanilla sauce.

Croissant Bread Pudding

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Sugar Cookie Latte Recipe

When you're craving a caffeinated boost and sugar cookies are on your mind, this 10 Minute Sugar Cookie Latte is simple to make and oh-so-perfect for a Christmas treat!

Sugar Cookie Latte

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Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti

Cranberry Pistachio Cookies are festive biscotti-style cookies filled with tart cranberries, crunchy pistachios, and warm cinnamon. Perfect for holiday gifting, cookie boxes, and pairing with your favorite coffee or tea.

Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti

How to Get Ready for Christmas Breakfast

Here are a few ideas for prepping Christmas breakfast ahead of time. I like doing this on Christmas Eve (or the day before we serve the meal).

1. Assemble breakfast. Consider your menu and prep or cook ahead any recipes you're serving on Christmas morning. And have a game plan for the morning meal. I like to write a complete menu for the breakfast meal (as I often have many helpers in the kitchen that morning) and lay it in clear view.
2. Set up a beverage station. The first stop on Christmas morning is the coffee station at our house, so be sure to get up your coffee maker the night before. If serving many guests, it helps to have an extra stainless-steel coffee carafe ready and waiting. For tea, set out sachets and sugar if needed. Also, consider setting up a hot cocoa bar for the younger ones (or the younger in heart!).
3. Prep the buffet. If you're serving a buffet, set out serving utensils, plates, and trivets or hot pads to protect counter surfaces from just-out-of-the-oven dishes. Don't forget to set out napkins, breakfast plates, and eating utensils too. Come Christmas morning, you'll be very grateful you took a few minutes to prep for this busy meal!