Festive Breakfast Recipes for Christmas Morning

While many people are excited to see what Santa left under the tree on Christmas morning I’m just as excited to see what’s coming out of the oven. A relaxed morning with my closest family and friends (all decked out in festive jammies of course) with an overflowing table of delicious breakfast goodies has always been my favorite part of the holidays. I’ve gathered up over 50 of the best Christmas breakfast recipes from some of my food blogger friends to make this Christmas morning your best one yet.

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Orange Pecan French Toast Casserole

A great make ahead breakfast or brunch this orange pecan french toast casserole is easy to make and sure to impress. Discover the best overnight french toast casserole recipe with a decadent caramel pecan sauce.

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Swedish Cinnamon Buns

Soft, pillowy and lightly sweet traditional Swedish cinnamon knots known as kanelbullar are a delicious treat any time of day. Discover the best recipe for making Swedish cinnamon buns at home.

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Ham and Asparagus Quiche

This ham and asparagus quiche is perfect for breakfast, brunch or a light dinner. Learn how to make the perfect quiche at home with this easy recipe.

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Pumpkin Pecan Waffles

Perfect for a fall breakfast or a weekend brunch these Pumpkin Pecan Waffles are easy to make. This pumpkin waffle recipe is great any time but especially nice on Thanksgiving or Christmas morning.

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Cranberry White Chocolate Scones

With bright cranberry and creamy white chocolate these scones are the perfect combination of sweet and tart. Learn how to make the best cranberry white chocolate scones at home.

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Baked Prosciutto Egg Cups

Perfect for everything from weekday meal prep to weekend brunch these baked prosciutto egg cups are delicious and easy to make. Discover the best recipe for baked prosciutto egg cups.

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Easy Strawberry Cream Cheese Danish

Thanks to frozen puff pastry making bakery quality strawberry danish pastries at home couldn't be easier. Discover the best recipe for strawberry cream cheese danish.

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Sweet Potato Breakfast Hash

Loaded with fresh veggies this sweet potato breakfast hash is an easy and healthy meal any time of day. Discover the best recipe for making sweet potato breakfast hash at home.

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread

Filled with the coziest spices this pumpkin bread gets even better with a generous swirl of luscious cream cheese filling. The recipe for pumpkin cream cheese bread is easy to make and features the best flavors of fall.

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Make Ahead Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast Casserole

A great make ahead breakfast or brunch this strawberry cream cheese french toast casserole is easy to make and sure to impress. Discover the best overnight french toast casserole recipe bursting with fresh strawberries and sweet cream cheese!

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Decadent Chocolate Waffles

Perfect for breakfast or brunch these decadent chocolate waffles are fluffy, light and taste like your favorite brownie! Discover the best recipe to make chocolate waffles at home.

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Peppermint Mocha Coffee Creamer

Peppermint mocha coffee creamer brings the flavor of the holidays to your morning cup of coffee any time of year. With a handful of ingredients and a few minutes this is the best recipe for making peppermint mocha coffee creamer at home.

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Butternut Squash Quiche with Goat Cheese and Rosemary

This butternut squash quiche with goat cheese and rosemary is perfect for breakfast, brunch or a light dinner. Learn how to make the perfect quiche at home with this easy recipe.

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Raspberry Sweet Rolls with Cream Cheese Glaze

Raspberry Sweet Rolls with Lemon Cream Cheese Glaze are a fun twist on a breakfast favorite. Discover the best recipe for homemade raspberry sweet rolls from scratch. These raspberry sweet rolls are perfect for breakfast, brunch or an afternoon treat.

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Apple Scones with Maple Cinnamon Glaze

Filled with fresh apples, warm spices and drizzled with a sweet maple glaze these Apple Scones with Maple Cinnamon Glaze are perfect for breakfast, dessert or for afternoon tea. Learn the best recipe for making perfect homemade scones.

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Strawberry Dutch Baby Pancake

This strawberry Dutch baby, or oven baked skillet pancake, is easy to make and perfect for a weekend breakfast or brunch. Make this recipe for an easy strawberry Dutch baby pancake for a quick and delicious breakfast.

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Flaky Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits

Buttery, cheesy and spicy these Flaky Jalapeno Cheddar Biscuits are sure to please. Discover the best recipe for jalapeno cheddar biscuits from scratch.

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Homemade Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer

Pumpkin spice coffee creamer brings the cozy vibes of fall to your morning cup any time of year. Discover the best recipe for homemade pumpkin spice coffee creamer.

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Giant Cinnamon Roll

Kids love this giant cinnamon roll because it’s festive and fun. The best part is, it comes together in just a few minutes so you can focus on fun things during the holiday!

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Ooey Gooey Sticky Toffee Pecan Buns – foodworthfeed

These Sticky Toffee Pecan Buns are a cross between a fluffy pecan roll and the classic English dessert – sticky toffee pudding. Lots of gooey caramel and toasty pecans will top your spiraled buns for an ooey gooey brunch delight!

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Overnight Creme Brûlée French Toast Casserole – Butternut and Sage

This Overnight Creme Brûlée French Toast Casserole tastes just like the traditional French dessert! It’s light and delicate with notes of vanilla and subtle orange liqueur. This elegant and special breakfast is perfect for the holidays!

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Bacon and Egg Pie: Easy Breakfast Casserole

This bacon and egg pie is an easy New Zealand-inspired breakfast casserole that has all the main breakfast ingredients – bacon, egg, cheese, and onion, wrapped in a puff pastry. It’s the perfect Christmas casserole.

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Cinnamon Roll Baked French Toast

Get the delicious flavor of cinnamon rolls in a whole new way! This simple Cinnamon Roll Baked French Toast recipe is ready in under an hour and with less effort than homemade cinnamon rolls. Topped with cream cheese icing and perfect for a holiday breakfast or a quiet weekend in.

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Easy Panettone Bread Pudding

A make-ahead bread pudding using festively sweet Italian panettone bread is the perfect brunch dish you can pull from the fridge and bake just before serving. Drizzle an easy homemade amaretto cream sauce over the golden brown crispy top and delight your guests.

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Chocolate Stuffed Coffee Brioche French Toast

Eat your coffee for breakfast with this incredible Chocolate Stuffed Brioche French toast! It’s made by dipping soft, buttery brioche bread in a coffee flavored custard, stuffing it with premium chocolate, and topping it with a dollop of whipped coffee cream.

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Cinnamon Roll Pull-Apart Bread – Rhodes Frozen Rolls – EmilyFabulous

This recipe for Easy Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread using frozen dinner rolls will quickly become a favorite in your home. They are very easy to make and delicious to eat! With only 6 ingredients, you can’t go wrong with this sweet breakfast treat that everyone will love!

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Overnight Eggnog French Toast Bake with Cranberry Maple Syrup

Wake up on Christmas morning to the sweet smell of Overnight Eggnog French Toast Bake with Cranberry Maple Syrup. This is a family favorite during the holidays!

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Quiche Lorraine Recipe

The absolute best Quiche Lorraine Recipe is perfect for brunch, dinner, and anytime in between. Made with a flaky, buttery pie crust filled with loads of bacon, cooked shallots, melted cheese, eggs, and cream, the whole family will love this easy recipe!

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Gingerbread French Toast Bake Casserole

This Gingerbread French Toast Bake Casserole is the perfect way to kick off a snowy holiday morning, or any morning for that matter!

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Maple Bacon & Sausage French Toast Bake

With the holidays upon us, I have been dying to make a big ol’ breakfast casserole – that could feed a bunch of people. I settled on doing a cinnamon french toast bake – but you know me – I can’t JUST do cinnamon french toast, I had to add bacon AND maple sausage!

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Chorizo Sweet Potato Skillet

This chorizo sweet potato hash is always welcome for brunch and will add a fun, unique flair to your Christmas morning. Eggs get baked directly into this one pan breakfast making it a full meal. As an added bonus, you can prep most of it the night before and then simply reheat, crack the eggs on top and bake the next morning.

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Christmas Morning Muffins – Greek Yogurt Christmas Morning Muffins

These Christmas morning muffins are made with Greek yogurt, filled with rosemary, dried cranberries, nutmeg and vanilla bean.
Topped with a cinnamon crumble and vanilla nutmeg glaze they’re the perfect festive bite for Christmas morning.

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Orange Rolls Recipe – Chisel & Fork

Buttery dough sprinkled in an orange cinnamon sugar and topped with a bright orange glaze makes these orange rolls a breakfast favorite.

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Brunch Casserole with Gruyere Cheese and Caramelized Onions – Southern & Modern

This delicious Brunch Casserole combines savory components like gruyere cheese and thyme with sweet caramelized onions for an amazing dish.

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Blueberry Strawberry French Toast Casserole

Blueberry Strawberry French Toast Casserole is a delicious overnight casserole, made with day-old French, Brioche, or Challah, cream cheese, fresh strawberries, and blueberries, and topped with a sweet blueberry sauce that will feed a crowd for breakfast or brunch.

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Overnight Orange Cardamom Cinnamon Rolls

These overnight orange cinnamon rolls with cardamom can be made the night before and then baked in the morning. They make your house smell amazing while they’re baking and are perfect for Christmas morning.

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Egg & Sausage Overnight Breakfast Casserole | Haute & Healthy Living

This easy make ahead breakfast casserole is simple, healthy and delicious! It can be made the night before and left to sit overnight for the perfect balanced breakfast or brunch the next day. Such a great option to serve to company during the holidays!

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Cheesy Spinach and Mushroom Breakfast Casserole

Cheesy spinach and mushroom breakfast casserole is easy to make, gluten free, meatless, and delicious for breakfast or brunch! This cheesy spinach and mushroom breakfast casserole has been making an appearance at our house for breakfast and brunch for nearly 30 years. At first it started out as a “s…

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Cranberry Sweet Rolls

Homemade cranberry sweet rolls are perfect for Christmas brunch. Filled with fresh cranberries and topped with an orange glaze.

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Buttermilk Quiche With Ham, Cheddar, And Chives

Buttermilk quiche is a classic French egg custard tart kicked up a notch with the tang and zip of creamy buttermilk! Savory ham, cheddar, and chives, plus homemade flaky pastry seals the deal for a delicious brunch.

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Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish

Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish has a flaky dough with a sweet cream cheese filling and juicy plump blueberries on top.

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Sausage and Leek Mini Quiche (Dairy Free)

These Sausage and Leek Mini Quiche are great for a personal serving and freeze amazingly…if you actually have any leftover! Made dairy-free, they’re flavorful and easy to whip up with a store bought crust.

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Waffle Breakfast Board (Fun idea for breakfast or brunch) | Maple + Mango

A Build Your Own Waffle Board is such a fun and beautiful way to serve Christmas brunch

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Blackberry Cheese Danish

Blackberry Cheese Danish is filled with lemon-thyme cream cheese, and topped with luscious blackberries on a buttery puff pastry crust. It’s finished with a delightful sugar glaze.

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Cinnamon Rolls with Apple Pie Filling – Waiting for Blancmange

Ultimate apple pie cinnamon rolls. These soft cinnamon buns with stewed apple and apple caramel filling are the perfect sweet brunch for a special day.

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Bacon and Egg Galettes

These Bacon and Egg Galettes are the perfect festive brunch. Caramelized onion and bacon, flaky puff pastry and a perfectly cooked egg – delicious!

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Easy Homemade Apple Fritters

These Easy Homemade Apple Fritters are packed full of fresh apples, easy to make with simple ingredients, and can be ready in just 30 minutes! They’re destined to be a new family favorite.

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Sheet Pan Pancakes

Why make regular pancakes ever again when you can just pour batter into a sheet pan, add your favorite toppings and pop it into the oven for less than 15 minutes to get perfectly golden, and deliciously fluffy Sheet Pan Pancakes?!

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The BEST Monkey Bread Recipe – Boston Girl Bakes

Fluffy pull apart sweet bread rolls dipped in butter, rolled in cinnamon and sugar and drizzled with a vanilla glaze. This pull apart monkey bread recipe from scratch is THE perfect brunch treat.

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Gingerbread Waffles With Cardamom-Vanilla Butter

Waffles are getting a holiday spin. These gingerbread waffles feature a perfectly fluffy interior with a punch of spices, brown sugar and molasses.

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Roasted Pumpkin Quiche

This Roasted Pumpkin Quiche with Feta Cheese is a delicious vegetarian dish that is great for breakfast, brunch, lunch or as a light dinner. The sweet roasted pumpkin combined with salty feta cheese, fluffy egg custard and buttery pastry makes the most delicious make-ahead meal.

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Banana Cinnamon Pancakes & Maple Brown Butter Glaze – Chenée Today

Delicious fluffy and moist banana pancakes with buttermilk, cinnamon, and roasted pecansa And they’re topped with a luscious brown butter maple glaze!

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Sausage and Vegetable Quiche with Four-Blend Cheddar

This Sausage and Vegetable Quiche with Four-Blend Cheddar can be enjoyed anytime. Four cheddars and loaded with fresh veggies!

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Cranberry White Chocolate Rolls

Cranberry White Chocolate Rolls are yeast free and take just 40 minutes from start to finish! They’re filled with fresh cranberries, coconut and white chocolate! Perfect for Christmas morning!

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Ginger Cranberry Scones

These tender and flaky Ginger Cranberry Scones are flavored with citrus and ginger and packed with cranberries and crystalized ginger. Garnished with a citrus ginger glaze and finely chopped, crystalized ginger.

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