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Please share your Christmas breakfast ideas

48 replies

Theromanempire · 06/12/2016 08:41

I want to do something special for breakfast on Christmas Day. Time is not an issue as will have plenty of time so maybe home baking of some sort.

Hot sweet muffins with butter maybe? Tarts? Anything else?

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LizzieMacQueen · 06/12/2016 09:14

On offer here are croissants, bacon rolls and toasted bagels, cream cheese and salmon.

Can't beat croissants if you want to bake them (or open the can of premise dough).

A1Sharon · 06/12/2016 10:11

Home made pancakes with choice of toppings?
We eat at 12.30, as small folk get hungry, plus then it is done and tidied up and we can veg all day...until turkey and stuffing sandwiches!

A1Sharon · 06/12/2016 10:12

Plus you could make the batter the night before.

VeryPunny · 06/12/2016 10:15

Cinnamon rolls - this recipe is bombproof. You can let it rise over night then just shove in the oven.

www.eater.com/2015/10/10/9482367/best-sticky-bun-recipe-kenji-food-lab

Otherwise, pancakes, scrabled eggs and smoked salmon, or the Smitten Kitchen french toast:

smittenkitchen.com/2012/04/cinnamon-toast-french-toast-cookbook-preview/

NannyR · 06/12/2016 10:16

If you can get hold of good bagels, I would do smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels. Maybe with some Christmassy muffins for after - nigella has a recipe for Christmas morning muffins.

Sparlklesilverglitter · 06/12/2016 10:16

Ham and cheese croissants with fresh coffee and Buck's Fizz

PlumsGalore · 06/12/2016 10:17

toasted granary bread with avocado and smoked salmon or scrambled egg and smoked salmon.

atticusclaw2 · 06/12/2016 10:22

we also have cinnamon rolls. Its tradition here.

WhoKnowsWhereTheT1meG0es · 06/12/2016 10:27

Cinnamon buns here too, I make them the night before, leave them somewhere cool for a slow, overnight rise and just pop in the oven in the morning.

duskonthelawn · 06/12/2016 10:29

We do pannettone here, always have done. It's a lovely light breakfast to counterbalance the huge Christmas dinner 🙈

Gentleope · 06/12/2016 10:33

Honey yoghurt with chopped up apple and tangerine pieces stirred in plus a sprinkling of walnuts on top. Tastes very festive.

Theromanempire · 06/12/2016 10:33

Thanks for the lovely suggestions Smile

I have done the Nigella muffin recipe before but it wasn't well received by the DC Grin

Quite like the thought of French toast though...

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Disraeli · 06/12/2016 10:39

I'm doing pancakes. Make the batter the night before, divide into two batches the next morning, add chocolate chips to one and blueberries to the other. Kids love them, we don't have them often and they're quite easy.

Soon2bC · 06/12/2016 10:40

We ask DS what he would like and make that. This year its sweet waffles, maple syrup and bacon. last year was bacon butty, year before was muffins
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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 06/12/2016 10:52

Usually bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese. Nice and easy. But then we are usually all adults now.

Bauble16 · 06/12/2016 10:55

We usually do a continental breakfast. This year I'm just doing bagel's, croissants, those pain au chocolate things, fresh orange.

roseteapot101 · 06/12/2016 11:14

i love pancakes or waffles with fruit

or smoked salmon bagel

i remember once we had full English breakfast great fun for my daughter who was 18months at the time.I stripped her down to a nappy and placed her high chair over a easy to wash floor.Gave her a full english and let her go crazy.She had so much fun making a mess lol

Veganmeredith · 06/12/2016 11:21

Come on meat eaters.... a nice nut roast with maybe a bit of piggy and tomatoes..... or maybe just the nut roast and tomatoes? Xxx give it a try xxx

Mummyreindeerlegz · 06/12/2016 11:22

Cinnamon rolls. It's the law now.

blog.kitchenmage.com/2011/01/small-batch-pioneer-womans-cinnamon-rolls.html

Weedsnseeds1 · 06/12/2016 11:36

We always had a slice from the gammon that was due to be cooked for boxing day, fried with eggs.

sweetstemcauli · 06/12/2016 11:50

In our house it's grilled smoked bacon done to taste, toasted ciabatta lightly dipped in the bacon juices, combined and spicy tomato sauce/mustard if liked. I make extra because someone always wants seconds.

Served before a long morning walk it's just the appetiser for lunch then the Queen. Amuses me, anyway. Smile

Shemozzle · 06/12/2016 12:07

As a kid we always had a full works proper fry up. Bacon, eggs, sausage, kidneys, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, toast and fried bread, orange juice, tea, coffee, Buck's Fizz, jam. This was a long drawn out affair to delay present opening.

I started off doing that too, but now we have ended up having American pancakes whenever it is someone's birthday, with American bacon, maple syrup, fried or scrambled eggs, blueberries. So that has become our Christmas breakfast too. It takes ages to cook up all those pancakes so good as a delaying tactic.

doctorweenie · 06/12/2016 12:21

Thick American pancakes with bacon, blueberries and maple syrup!

Oogle · 06/12/2016 12:33

I think I'm going to do American pancakes with smoked bacon and maple syrup. DH will turn his nose up and make a bacon sandwich. DS will probably want rice krispies.

BiddyPop · 06/12/2016 12:36

easy but nice options would include ready-made croissants or pain au chocolats that you roll out the dough and cook yourself. Could put a filling in croissants if you wanted.

DM used to often do a fry in the oven on Christmas day, while it heated for nibbles for guests and cooking turkey. Just put the sausages and pudding in earlier than rashers as the latter cook quicker. Halved tomatoes are lovely from the oven, and another container with mushrooms and a bit of butter, salt and pepper is delish! Only thing needed on the stove is eggs.

Freshly squeezed orange juice is a great treat on Christmas morning. whether that's from a bottle or done yourself (night before works perfectly).

You could pre-make proper pancake batter and have that in the fridge, to serve with a choice of streaky bacon, maple syrup, berries, nutella etc. We tend to make slightly thicker but smaller sized (fit 3 on a pan) ones for breakfasts in our house (I make batter on Sundays and use through the week to get DD to eat a solid breakfast!).

A more grown up one would be bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon, or just butter and jam or Nutella for littlies.

One idea I would love to try on Christmas morning is Chelsea buns or raisin Danish. I suspect I could do raisin Danish with puff pastry, raisins and some custard to bind, rolled in a log and sliced. I've seen various versions of Chelsea buns recommended for Christmas - making the batter the night before and forming the buns, letting them rise overnight in the tray, and just baking in the morning.

There's always hot coffee, perfect strength hot tea, orange juice, toast, naice marmalade (bitter with big chunks!), and I often have either fresh berries and natural yoghurt or a fresh fruit salad (breakfast type so not too sweet like a desert) as well. I actually like to have fruit available on Christmas Day as the rest of the food can often be quite heavy when its all added together (both type and quantities)!.