Christmas breakfast.. our only family time

[justgeton]

So please, suggestions to make it lovely.

Virus's willing we will have our daughter and her boyfriend for breakfast. They've recently bought together and moved in. They will then spend the day and have dinner with his family. All this is totally fine with me.

How do I make Christmas breakfast special? I'm used to breakfast being a bit 'make do' while I cook dinner for numbers.

A fry up. Tea. Pancakes and maple syrup . Fruit and yoghurt. Danishes. Like a feast. A decorated table.

I'd do the works; links, bacon, potato scone, eggs, tomatoes / mushrooms, black pudding, Morton's rolls.
Huge pot of tea, fruit juice, irn bru (for anyone with a hangover)
I'd also have pastries, fresh fruit & cereal incase people fancied them:

Oh and Buck's Fizz, snowballs, hot chocolate with Baileys

Definitely lay out the table, and try and make it early enough that they'll want to eat enough to last til lunch iyswim.

Crackers.
A present to open after breakfast.

I love the idea of a special Christmas breakfast actually. Hope your plans can go ahead op

@38weekswithno2 I can tell you are Scottish even without the reference to Irn Bru. Loving the suggestions!

You really can't beat a good Scottish breakfast

You NEED a festive toast rack ... it’ll all be spoilt without one

Freshly baked croissants (buy them frozen, makes it a lot easier)/cinnamon buns (make them the night before and let them rise overnight)/Nigella’s Christmas muffins (you mix up all the dry ingredients the night before, making it quick & convenient in the morning) - your choice, or maybe all three! Coffee. Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on German grain bread. Bubbly/Buck’s Fizz.

This, for me, is the perfect Christmas morning breakfast - something yummy to start, then something substantial, rich, but not too heavy, to keep you going til lunch.👌👌

Set the table beautifully. Play Christmas hymns in the background.

We normally have smoked salmon and scrambled eggs with proper Buck's Fizz. Get the main meal totally prepared the day before so you can relax and not be hopping up and down. Small but special presents on the table, stockings the night before.

Set the table the evening before. I usually do anyway for Christmas day. Make it very festive, you can put crackers out etc or a present to open at each persons place.
Serve Buck’s fizz, tea/coffee, either go full fry up or pastries and fruit or make like a lovely festive breakfast board (sure you could find examples on pinterest). Personally I’d do smoked salmon, bagels, cream cheese and either poached or scrambled eggs as that’s my idea of heaven. I’d do a little chocolate for each person after.
I think this could be very lovely and special.

I'd do something easy if making dinner later
As in maybe a help yourself breakfast?
Eg croissants, bagels, sliced ham and cheese, some mini boxes of cereal (holiday cereal lol)

When you say dinner do you mean in the evening, lunch time or some strange Christmas mid afternoon time to fit around everything else?

I would do lots of choice to make it feel special - mini croissants, pain au chocolat, mini cereal boxes, sausages, bacon, eggs, smoked salmon, a huge fruit plate, champagne cocktails, different fresh fruit juices. You could serve it as a buffet or as courses, if you prefer, eg yoghurt with a fruit puree or cereal, then a full English, then pastries and fruit.

I would set the table with crackers, flowers, napkins and candles just as if it were dinner. When my DC were younger, they often had friends to stay before Christmas and I would light my DGM's Swedish angel chimes at breakfast.

If they aren't having dinner until the evening, I would go for a lighter breakfast and serve canapes at lunch time.

@BluebellsGreenbells

You NEED a festive toast rack ... it’ll all be spoilt without one

Funny you should say this - I was only looking at toast racks yesterday, but not festive ones. I shall look for both!

I would do smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, fresh orange juice squeezed just before (so much nicer), sourdough thick cut toast and if you are up for it, look for the cranberry and orange bagels on the bbc website (from bake-off) they are delicious and surprisingly easy (admittedly I have a bread maker and set the dough programme the night before). Alternatively full fry up!

I’d go to town on what you know they’d eat. So if they are fry up people, do that. If pasties and cereals do that.

I’d go a full on Christmas table. Tea pot, coffee cafetière, orange juice, Christmas glasses. I’d frankly go nuts! Christmas napkins, red table cloth, candles (yes at breakfast).

Oh I would love this, you could really go to town.

I’d do a sort of buffet breakfast, sausages, bacon etc, muffins, croissants, christmas crumpets just for the novelty value, mini jam jars, Nutella, little rolls of butter, actually no supermarkets tend to have Santa shaped butters.

In my head I’ve got a Christmas breakfast version of these graze tables that I keep seeing on social media.

We do a posh version of a continental breakfast as it doesn’t involve anyone cooking.

Get a roast joint of gammon in there - do it the day before, with cloves and orange. It has the bonus of providing for the next few days as well.

Orange juice, paper coffee, pot of tea. Crackers, buck's fizz, proper napkins or jolly Christmas ones, candles.

You could also do them stockings to open afterwards.

As others have said

Festive table, with centre piece and table cloth, napkins

Buck’s Fizz and the option of orange juice for any drivers

Christmas music on

Then it depends what you like to eat.

Decadent Scrambled eggs, with cheese, butter and cream, smoked salmon, crispy bacon, croissants, cinnamon swirls, toast but made from some gorgeous bakers bread, some different pate, put it all out on the table and let them help themselves.

We always have kedgeree, fruit salad and yoghurt, tea / fresh coffee on Christmas morning

Damn it @BluebellsGreenbells now you've got me looking for festive toast racks 🙈

I would look to what your family likes, if a full english/Scottish breakfast is a treat, do that, but if its not what they'd really like, then go down the pastries route. Definitely set the table, put out crackers.

One thing that might help make it different, could you get everyone Christmas eve pjs or onsies ? If you are all in your Christmas Jim jams that might feel a bit special.

(I'm debating matching pjs for us all this year, it'll only be the 4 of us so thinking of ways to make it special)

I like to make Christmas breakfast nice but don't want full English as lots to eat all day. We have bagels usually and kids put what they want on, scrambled eggs cream cheese smoked salmon. Get croissants too and melon and strawberries, set table nice glasses and Buck's Fizz for sure
Nice coffee too and put carols from kings on the radio
Actually excited for this now

Trifle. And then think about what else. More trifle? Mango and sauternes are a match made in heaven.