30 Christmas Brunch Recipes
Easy Christmas brunch recipes for a delicious holiday breakfast on Christmas morning or an open house any time during this festive season.
There are two different kinds of morning meals during Christmas:
- The Quickly Enjoyed Christmas Breakfast Before Opening Gifts
- The Leisurely Christmas Brunch with No Time Table
If you're looking for an easy breakfast to serve quickly in the morning before the kids open the gifts, you want my make-ahead Christmas breakfast recipes.
However, if you're looking to host an elegant Christmas brunch at a more relaxed pace, you're in the right spot!
These easy brunch recipes will help you plan a spectacular and delicious menu fit for the holiday season.
You can enjoy these easy brunch recipes on Christmas morning or any time you're hosting friends and family during this holiday season.
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How to Host a Brunch
If you're new to hosting brunch, you might want to pause a moment and read my beginner tips for how to host a brunch party.
It has great suggestions for meal planning and arranging the buffet table.
If you're a practiced pro, let's dig right in on the Christmas brunch ideas:
Beverages
The easiest items to plan for but the most often overlooked, stock up on these easy beverage options and designate a pretty serving area with bottles and glasses and everything your guests need to help themselves.
- Cranberry Juice
- Orange Juice: You could consider also adding champagne to the beverage station for Christmas mimosas made with orange juice or cranberry juice.
- Holiday Coffee Bar: Let your loved ones mix their own Christmas lattes with this easy Christmas coffee station set up.
- Crockpot Hot Cocoa with Whipped Cream: The kids will love this, and yes most adults, too! My Crockpot hot chocolate bar has all the tasty mix-ins.
Breakfast Pastries
Fill festive holiday platters and bread baskets with lots of sweet rolls and easy breakfast pastries.
You should plan to also include softened butter and sweet fruit jams or jellies.
Cinnamon Rolls
This quick and easy cinnamon roll recipe is perfect for adding to a brunch menu because it only needs 2 ingredients!
Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
I make my cinnamon streusel coffee cake with a delicious fresh cherry filling that looks so festive on a Christmas bunch table.
Cranberry Orange Bread
Quick breads are a perfect brunch recipe because you can bake them in advance and even freeze them if necessary. I love the big fresh cranberries in my cranberry bread with a hint of orange zest in the batter.
A softened or whipped butter would be a perfect thing to serve with this sweet bread.
Cranberry Orange Muffins
Looking for a single-serving breakfast pastry your guests can grab to go? These festive cranberry orange muffins with cinnamon streusel topping are perfect.
Orange Rolls
I personally love these fluffy orange sweet rolls just as they are but for a boost of even more festive flavor you could roll them with chocolate chips before baking.
Easy Chocolate Croissants
Melty chocolate wrapped in a flaky puff pastry crust? In a perfectly popable bite-sized shape?? YES, please.
Fill a bread basket with these warm chocolate croissant puffs and I guarantee it will be empty at the end of the brunch.
Almond Cherry Scones
These almond glazed cherry scones can be baked in an easy drop shape or you can roll them out and cut them with cookie cutters.
This heart shaped design would be such a sweet Christmas morning surprise.
Christmas Breakfast Casserole Recipes
Make ahead breakfast casseroles are always an excellent choice for a brunch at any time of year but especially at Christmas time.
When you've got your hands full hosting a house full of guests, it is so wonderful to grab the casserole from the fridge and just pop it in the oven.
French Toast Casserole
I included several flavor variations in my overnight French toast bake recipe but the bourbon pecan is my favorite and just right for Christmas.
Sausage Breakfast Casserole with English Muffins
For a savory breakfast casserole, try this one with seasoned sausage and fluffy eggs over English muffins!
Sausage Biscuits and Gravy Casserole
Hearty appetites need big comfort food. You couldn't go wrong with this easy prep ahead sausage biscuits and gravy casserole.
Easy Quiche
If you want to add a breakfast casserole option but have more main dishes on the buffet table, this easy quiche can be enjoyed in small slices or big generous pieces.
Panettone Bread Pudding
Is it dessert or is it a brunch item? It's the holiday season, does it matter??
Go ahead and serve this festive panettone bread pudding with a pitcher of this easy amaretto cream sauce on the side.
HINT: The amaretto sauce works as a coffee creamer in the Christmas coffee station, too!
Breakfast Entrees
If you don't mind doing a little light cooking at the start of your brunch, these easy breakfast entrees are great for serving a crowd.
Easy Eggs Benedict
YES, you can serve eggs benedict to a crowd at once. Follow my tips for prepping the elements in bigger batches and prep it family-style.
Be sure to make my parmesan cream sauce that is so much easier than hollandaise sauce, too.
Dutch Baby Pancake
Few breakfast recipes are quite as jaw dropping as a big, fluffy pancake coming out of the skillet.
This cherry pancake has toasted almonds and powdered sugar for a gorgeous holiday presentation.
Birthday Cake Waffles
With a wink and a nod to the meaning of the day, why not serve birthday cake waffles for the Baby Jesus' birthday party??
You could garnish them with traditional birthday sprinkles or choose a fun red and green Christmas colored sprinkle set, too.
Monte Cristo Sandwich Pinwheels
If you're like me, you struggle to pick between sweet and savory when ordering your breakfast.
I love these Monte Cristo sandwich pinwheels because you get the best of both worlds: savory ham and turkey rolled in a sweet crescent roll dough and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Side Dishes
With all your casseroles and entrees ready, don't forget to add a few classic breakfast side dishes to your Christmas brunch menu.
These are great for kids to nibble on when they're too excited about the rest of the event and can't sit still for a big plate of breakfast.
Crispy Bacon
My easy peppered bacon gets baked in the oven on huge sheet pans. It is the perfect brunch dish to serve for a crowd.
For sure double what you think you'll need, those strips of bacon fly fast.
Breakfast Sausage
For those concerned about healthy eating during the holiday season, lighten up the brunch menu with my homemade turkey breakfast sausage recipe.
All the delicious flavor or traditional breakfast sausage but made with ground turkey meat. You can form breakfast patties or brown it up as breakfast crumbles for adding into any of the casseroles listed above!
Sausage Balls
You can make ahead a batch of sausage balls and honey mustard dip and just bake them before serving at brunch.
With browned sausage and Bisquick in the mix, they are a savory bite for your breakfast table.
Crispy Breakfast Potatoes
While your breakfast dishes bake in the oven, you can cook these crispy breakfast potatoes in a skillet on the stovetop.
Cheesy Cornflake Potatoes
Everyone loves this cheesy cornflake potatoes casserole at festive family brunches all year long. It would be a perfect pick for Christmas.
Fresh Fruit Platter with Fruit Dip
The easiest brunch side dish is a big fresh fruit platter and a simple fruit dip.
You could pair bright read fresh strawberries and red grapes with this creamy piña colada fruit dip and add a few crispy ginger cookies for a festive holiday touch.
More Christmas Recipes
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