What do you all do for Christmas breakfast?
We don’t really have a tradition which is funny because we have traditions for other meals. I want to make something special BUT we don’t have a ton of time in the morning because after we open our presents it’s a bit of a rush to get ready and travel to see multiple family groups. I know lots of people do cinnamon rolls but I’d like something a bit more “healthy” (doesn’t really have to be healthy but maybe a little more balanced).
I just hosted a brunch yesterday that I didn’t want to spend too much time on. I’ll share some of our items if any of them help you.
Quiche - this is my daughter/SIL’s recipe and it is DELICIOUS. Could absolutely be made a day or two ahead of time. I made one broccoli and one with ham and mushroom.
I used Pillsbury deep dish pie crusts that I did blind bake first.
Costco Amylu chicken sausage links. Put them in with the quiche. No grease on the parchment afterwards - very good!
Rhodes cinnamon rolls. Put them in a 9 x 13 before bed, pop them in the oven when you wake up. I dressed mine up by shaking on additional cinnamon/brown sugar the night before (before they rise). Drizzled a little maple syrup on them when I took them out of the oven. Beefed up the frosting they provide and added chopped pecans. Find them in the freezer section of the grocery store
Fresh berries mixed in a bowl.
Or just buy good yogurt, fresh fruit, good granola and nuts, maple syrup, dried fruit and let people make their own yogurt bowl! Add a load of sourdough bread to toast if they like.
Oooh…good ideas! We really like quiche!
A bagel bar with bagels, cream cheese, onions, tomatoes, maybe lox if people like…
An egg strata dish can be made the night before (like a breakfast bread pudding) and baked the morning of.
Breakfast burritos can also be made ahead and wrapped individually.
Pigs in a blanket and mimosas … not healthy!
Egg, veggie, cheese casserole (make ahead and reheat in the oven covered in foil). Add a fruit salad as a side.
I’ve also done chocolate croissant bread pudding casserole but not healthy at all!
I used to do a breakfast casserole when the kids were all here and small and the grandparents came over. Now, just some sausage cheese balls, fresh fruit, Grand’s cinnamon rolls - coffee and juice. I’m going to try making the sausage cheese balls this time with the Red Lobster Cheddar biscuit mix - i understand it adds a little more pop to the flavor. And, I alway do the dinner as well, so I have get breakfast out, open gifts, clean up, shower, change, and start dinner which is at 2:00 p.m. this year so grandparent can drive home in the daylight, otherwise we have to transport both ways.
Yeah, it doesn’t have to be super healthy, but just trying to keep a little balance with a day of eating ahead of us. Really all I mean is I don’t want JUST a desert like food as our only option.
Thanks for all the ideas!
We used to have breakfast before opening presents. Scrambled eggs, sausages, toast, fruit. Not our usual breakfast!
Now I will have one daughter visiting and we will probably have granola bars!!
I’m not much of a breakfast person, but if I were, I might do some sort of egg/cheese/ham/bacon/sausage casserole, hashbrowns or corned beef hash, toast/butter/jelly – the whole shebang. I might even have a “do your own” waffle thing – I’ll make the batter and if they want a waffle, they can use a waffle iron. But that seems like overkill.
So this year, D wants us to make our own English muffins and have it with a smoked salmon dip on Christmas morning. D has made both so she’ll take the lead. We’ll make both 1 or 2 days before!
We usually do quiche, fresh bagels and fruit.
My dad found a recipe decades ago for huevos rancheros. It was in an advertisement for cigarettes - I guess Marlborough Man. We have it every year on Christmas morning. 
Moravian Sugar Cake
I always used the Pillsbury crust which were very good but the Marie Callender pie shells are twice as good in my opinion.
We ususally do brunch time french toast with bacon and eggs (need some protein).
One year we had an abundance of bananas and made banana fritters. They are so easy and so good.
My mom used to always make scrambled egg with polska kielbasa and biscuits and gravy. Marginally healthy.
Husband dons a Santa hat and makes crepes (cinnamon sugar/lemon, fresh fruit etc). Nothing too substantial because lunch is the main Christmas meal in our household.
Christmas breakfast is a big deal for our family. Whoever is up early opens their stocking; then I go out to feed the horses, which takes me a good hour. While I am doing that, my husband makes eggs, bacon, pancakes, and cooks the homemade gf cinnamon rolls. When I get back we all sit down to a late breakfadt. And then retire to the family room to open presents.
I guess it’s not that extraordinary, but we never all sit down to a big breakfast, except on that one day.
I make Danish puff pastry from Betty Crocker, as my grandmother did and my mom did.
I usually add something savory to go with it, like breakfast sausages and a quiche.
