What do you have for Christmas breakfast?

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We normally just have chocolates! But I am planning to do the dinner a bit later at about 4pm ish so want something a bit more substantial. What sort of things do you all have?

American pancakes with crispy streaky bacon and maple syrup. Plus bucks fizz!

French toast made with panettone, with a bellini.

Fruit salad assembled on Christmas Eve with yoghurt and pastries. Tea and prosecco will have already been drunk.

We usually have smoked salmon and blinis but just today I had what I think is a blinding flash of inspiration - pigs in blankets with brioche rolls! Plus champagne or Buck's Fizz and Gallons of builders' tea, I don't drink coffee

Usually croissants, dad has pork pie.

This year dd has asked for trifle for breakfast. Strange child, but I've said yes on the basis it's once a year. Plus if my dad can have pork pie dd can have trifle (it has fruit in so thats ok right?

Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.

It's not Christmas without them!

Gerrys snap! I look forward to it more than Xmas lunch (which we have late) - especially the bucks fizz.

I love Christmas breakfast almost as much as Christmas dinner.

We usually eat about 4pm so have a full English with optional extras such as smoke salmon, bagels/croissants.

This year, we are eating earlier at 1pm so I think it'll be smoke salmon, scrambled eggs and bagels. with booze.

Home-cooked gammon, pickled peaches, fried eggs and toast.

Oddly enough, after this we have a fairly late lunch.

Nigella's Christmas morning muffins. Measure out dry ingredients night before, chuck in the wet and bake for 20 mins. We eat them on the living room rug as we open presents at about 7am! Maybe when DD is older we'll have a sophisticated breakfast at the table.

Tradition for us has always been smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, with either Buck's Fizz or straight fizz depending on driving etc, along with 'proper' coffee.

This year it's straight fizz as for the first year we are doing Christmas at home!

Couple of Quality Street chocolates, coffee....and then the champagne gets opened at about 10am

Nigella's ham in coke (no sniggering ...ahem) and poached eggs, tea & Buck's Fizz

Nice thick cut smoky bacon on buttered crusty bread with a steaming mug of milky tea.

Mmmmmm drooling already

Bacon rolls cooked by DH and glass of fizz (not fussed about the "bucks")

Sine if these ideas are great

We are having scrambled egg, toast, butter with croissants, pain au chocolate, hot choc for kids and coffee and Buck's Fizz for us

Weetabix x2

My new tradition: Cinnamon buns, oranges, coffee and bucks fizz, in bed, opening stockings. It is MY tradition, as is having Christmas dinner in the evening. Lunchtime is soup, preferably from a flask in a field. But this year the whole family are descending so lunch will probably be gin and crisps in a cupboard.

But they are banned until we have had our breakfast.

A cooked breakfast, bacon, sausage, eggs, beans, mushrooms, hash browns and toast :)

Bagels with sausages, rashers a.k.a. bacon, scrambled eggs with oj and coffee. Chocolate from the selection boxes.

Sherry.

Kippers with toast, orange juice then panettone and coffee!

I went a bit baking mad a few years ago and made a home made stollen, which we polished off for breakfast over Christmas. It's now become a bit of a tradition.

This year and last, I made a stollen plait, three strips of dough rolled around marzipan and then plaited together, so that the marzipan is more evenly distributed.

It's quite nice because it's a good bit of relaxing baking a few weeks before Christmas, then stick it in the freezer, defrost on Christmas Eve and then you can just slice bits off over the next couple of days - toast it once it's not completely fresh. And you can feed quite a few with it if you've got a crowd staying.

Eggy bread with bacon and maple syrup and the obligatory Buck's Fizz x

Do you have a best stollen recipe, Treats? Never tried making it but could fancy some for Christmas morning.