Christmas Breakfast

I know several families who make a breakfast casserole on Christmas Eve, refrigerate it, and on Christmas morning they only have to heat up the oven and pop it in. The benefit is that with a casserole, everything is in one dish so there's no cooking meats then eggs then toast etc. Look online for recipes. I will probably do it this year myself though it's been a few years so I need to find a recipe, but I recall that these were very easy -- usually involving cubed bread, cooked sausage, mixed with eggs and milk and cheese then baked.

The past few years when we've been home we usually warm up some nice croissants and have those with jam and coffee while opening gifts, then focus more on lunch later on.

OK, now I've made myself hungry!

we do pigs in a blanket (lil smokies wrapped in biscuits and baked), easy and lazy :)
Sometimes I make muffins
and serve fruit
Kids don't care about breakfast! lol!

My kids like homemade monkey bread (using homemade dough). It's a giant PITA so I only make it on Christmas morning. I also make a quiche for my SD. She's not the only one who eats it, but she's the one who loves it the most so I make it for her. That's something I can usually do the day before or even earlier (and freeze) and just re-heat.

Sometimes I make cinnamon rolls using the Pioneer Woman recipe. Again...giant pain but special. That's another one that I'll do the day before.

Cinnamon rolls are traditional in our family. Made the day before and reheated on Christmas morning, eaten sometime between stockings and tree gifts. Lately eggs, sausage, and hash browns have been thrown into the mix too. Mmmmm....!

Usually, Christmas breakfast isn't a big deal in our family. Usually, it's cereal... Unless I am feeling ambitious and make French toast or something.

Although, I did see an idea I may try out this year... Cooking pre-made cinnamon rolls in a waffle maker. Cinnamon roll waffles! Sounds like a great Christmas morning breakfast!

I make a breakfast casserole in the crock pot for our church breakfasts, everyone loves them. You can google them, there are a lot of variations.

I have also done "omelets in a baggie" when we had family over. You put water in a LARGE pot and bring it to a boil. In a quart size zip baggie, write your name in permanent ink. Then add 2-3 eggs, cheese, diced ham, bacon, veggies, whatever...salt and pepper. Boil 10-20 min depending on how well done you like the eggs. I liked doing this because everyone made their own and when they got up, it was super easy and easy clean up too.

homemade cinnamon rolls, scrambled eggs and bacon!

We always do creme brulee french toast. It's really sweet and pairs well with thick cut bacon. This is the only time we make this recipe, so it is a special treat. I like it because you make it the night before. We throw it in the oven when we get up and fry up some bacon. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/creme-brulee-french-toast/

By the time presents are opened and stuff is played with and trash is picked up it's time for brunch. An early breakfast just won't work out for us.

There is a yummy recipe in one of my very old Taste of Home magazines. It's for a baked, not grilled but BAKED, french toast. You make it up the night before and put the bread in a 9"X13" pan then pour the liquid over the bread. It's quite sopping wet with lots of fluid left over. So it has to be baked.

It has eggs of course, milk, vanilla, and maybe some sugar.

I hate their website and refuse to even try to look anything up. Sorry...

If you google make ahead french toast you may find something you like.

I made this one time for about 60 people. I organized a family camp out at church. The lodge had a full kitchen in it and we had this the first morning since I could pop in the lodge kitchen and make it by myself. I made pans and pans of it. Then left it in the huge walk in fridge.

When I got up the next morning the guys all came to do breakfast for everyone. It was an easy meal for them so they liked it. The next morning they made scrambled eggs for everyone along with sausage patties and toast. It was yummy too. But took a lot of prep time for them since it wasn't sitting in the over ready to bake.

My husband likes to make a breakfast casserole. It is similar to this one but his version has onion: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Christmas-Breakfast-Sausage-...

It is okay, but nothing special. Kind of bland. But it is a tradition in his family so...

One of my daughter's doesn't eat eggs so I make cinnamon rolls.

This year I'm thinking I'm just going to do overnight French toast.

We do bagels and lox, panettone, cheese, fruit and juice. It is buffet/serve yourself.

Cinnamon rolls. Fun to see how many others have the same tradition! And frittata for my low carb hubby, but I make those all the time. Cinnamon rolls are once a year.

Depends on how big of a Christmas dinner you plan on having.
If the dinner will be big, breakfast needs to be small.
I also don't want a big clean-up after breakfast if I'm going to start cooking dinner and that gets started early since we eat early afternoon.
Since we like turkey for Christmas dinner, we'll do toast, coffee/tea and Christmas cookies for breakfast.
Start up the wassil in a big crock pot and we'll be sipping it all day and it smells so good.
With the turkey leftovers we'll have easy meals almost the whole winter break.

I take the leftover sausage stuffing, mix it with egg, make patties, fry them in butter or olive oil. Put a poached egg and Hollandaise on top-serve with bacon-oh hell yea! Fresh squeezed OJ Mimosas-bam!

We do pan cakes with red and green M and Ms

I have to feed the masses. I'm thinking of doing a breakfast casserole this year. Better get on top of my recipe soon!

We usually have French toast and bacon. The kids open their stockings, then we sit down for breakfast before we open gifts. We eat a big breakfast, then skip lunch and have a big family dinner.

My family in VT always sends me a Shelburne Farms care package with pancake mix, meat products for my husband, yummy jam, and of course, REAL maple syrup! My husband's family tradition is fresh baked cinnamon rolls, so we make those Christmas Eve and eat them while we are wrapping gifts...er, waiting for Santa!

I make homemade cinnamon buns and eggs.

We're insanely lazy. We all eat a bowl of cereal. We're lucky to get the kids to stop long enough to eat that honestly. The rest of the day is filled with so much food that we more than make up for it later on in the day. We will sometimes treat ourselves to a Starbucks (mmmm...raspberry mocha!) and a couple of muffins that we split among us. We only get Starbucks a few times a year so it's a real treat.

I normally make everyone whatever they want. Which means I'm making a little bit of everything. This year we have decided to try a crock pot recipe...we haven't found it yet, but think that would be a fun and easy way to have a yummy, warm breakfast.

I've done hasbrown casserole and breakfast enchilada's before too - big hit!

We're so broke this year that if we even get to have Christmas, the breakfast will probably just be cereal or pigs in a blanket.

Crepes with lots of topping choices, mimosas for the grownups, smoothies for the kiddos, sausage or bacon and fruit.

We always do the Pillsbury orange cinnamon rolls, and some cocoa for Christmas breakfast. It's a once a year breakfast and SUPER easy/quick, so it doesn't take away from the morning fun.

Quiche
Biscuits and gravy

Cinnamon rolls from scratch! I use paula deens recipe on the food network web site but I make cream cheese frosting. Prepped the day or two before. once they are in rolls they go in the fridge. When we come down stairs in the morning I place them on the counter to rise the 2nd time and put cream cheese and butter in a bowl on the counter. after a bit I preheat the oven and place the cinnamon rolls on top of the oven to aid in rising. Once the oven is ready I put them in for 20-25 mins. close to the end I add vanilla and powdered sugar to the cream cheese/butter and whip it together. Never spread the cream cheese frosting across the whole pan unless they will all be eaten in one sitting. Reheating it isnt the best. We have done this for the last 6 or so years and it is great everytime.

We have yogurt parfait cups (yogurt layered with fresh berries, and granola on top) along with coffee cake. I either make a bunt style coffee cake the day before, or buy one.

I like this question! Very fun to see the answers.

We have breakfast with my husband and kids, grandparents and possibly an aunt. Actually it's more of a late brunch before we go to the extended relatives for afternoon dinner. So we do make a lot of food!

My dad makes flapjacks for everyone. (I don't even know if that is the official name, but all we've ever called them. They are basically thin like crepes but more cooked like pancakes, if that makes sense. I use syrup, sisters use cinnamon and sugar, mom uses applesauce--so lots of ways to have them.) Someone usually makes a fruit salad (usually oranges, grapefruit and cherries) and cinnamon rolls and brings those. And we have bacon, which is a real treat since we never make it otherwise!

My dad is at the oven cooking flapjacks and bacon while we're eating in the kitchen, but it's a nice time for our immediate family to talk after the craziness of presents but before we all head over to the larger family gathering. And this is the one time of year that he cooks!

I like making quiches. I usually put eggs, half and half, sausage, onion, mushrooms etc. Bake it in the oven and well-la, Breakfast.

Simple oatmeal. The big tada is the dinner.

i've really gotten away (thankfully) from sugar-bomb breakfasts, but christmas morning is still the time for homemade cinnamon rolls.
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/cinammon_rolls_/
these are a lot of work, and i set 'em up the day before. but omg, how insanely decadent they are.
the dh and i have split one, and have some eggs or something with it. but my boys nom like it's their last meal.
:) khairete
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I tried the cinnamon rolls in the waffle maker once and never will again. My kids (22 & 26) hated the results and it was hell to clean the waffle maker. I found a recipe for an eggs benedict casserole in the December taste of home that I want to try this year. My co-worker makes it with knorr hollandaise sauce that she raves about

We are another family that does cinnamon rolls from scratch. I prep them the day before and they go in the fridge overnight.

I make a casserole on Christmas eve and leave it in the fridge overnight. Then Christmas morning while we open gifts put it in the oven. So by the time we are done the casserole is ready. You can find many easy recipes at allrecipes.com. I try a different one every year.