Give me your most lavish Christmas breakfast

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We're not having Christmas lunch this year.

We've decided on a lavish Christmas brunch, long walk, then dinner in evening.

Give me your most decadent breakfast/brunch that won't destroy the kitchen but will feel special.

I’d go with a Nordic theme - fish, cheeses, rye bread, pickles, cheese cakes, those hefty strudel like pastries, spiced plums and barbados cream

Baileys

Smoked salmon and cream cheese sourdough bagels

Neat or in porridge?

Any kind of fish or seafood is off the menu in our house due to allergies otherwise the scrambled eggs and salmon would be my choice.

We always do brunch then dinner later on. Brunch is now the same every year, pancakes, berries, banana, bacon, sausages, nutella, maple syrup and anything else that anyone wants to go with it. Everyone is stuffed for hours after.

thick light French toast slightly caramelised with tons of streaky bacon served with strawberries and blueberries and lashings of maple syrup. Yum.

Every year we all have our favourite breakfasts. It's kind of a tactic passed on to me by my parents to delay the tree present opening so it's not all over with at the crack of dawn (my kids have quite generous stockings don't feel sorry for them). But when I was little it was a full English with all the trimmings. In my family it is a mix of anything goes. I make myself hollandaise sauce (only ever do this at Christmas!) which I have with smoked salmon on pancakes (yep! anything goes!). Others have croissants, pastries, streaky bacon, eggs, Santa pancakes, fairy bread, fruit etc we usually have a few rounds and a bit of everything. Fresh juice, tea leaf tea, fresh coffee, bucks fizz and Christmas music playing until we give in to the kids. We've never had Christmas lunch either, this keeps is going until the evening.

Add a cup of cream to the tray when baking the cinnamon rolls so they puff up and get moist and gooey like the Cinnabon ones.

And if you make your own from scratch you could have a Google for different ways to shape them.

Eggs Benedict. You can do it with salmon, lobster, whatever takes your fancy. Although I'd argue that keeping it for Boxing Day and doing a 'Christmas' Bennie with turkey, Brussels and stuffing covered in Hollandaise is better.

Even I wouldn't do Eggs Benedict two days in a row!

Failing that, bagels, cream cheese and salmon. Dill, squeeze of lemon, Bob's your uncle.

Duck eggs are much richer than hens eggs, they are slightly bigger so need a bit more tie to cook.

Scrambled eggs, smoked salmon on a bagel, bucks fizz, selection of ham and cheese, sliced melon, posh marmalade on toast (? home made).

Or do a buffet, basket of different breads, bagels, morning rolls etc.
Basket of pastries.
Cheese and ham.
Fruit (individual or a fruit salad).
Fruit juices.

Then a break followed by some hot food.

Eggs, bacon, hash browns.

Actually where I live I would probably see if a café was delivering.

Toasted Warburtons crumpets with butter and Fortnum's Truffled Rarebit cooked under the grill.

Utterly heavenly decadence

I just don't think you can beat bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese and a glass of fizz.

I think this year I'm going with

Fruit loaf, toasted, butter
Fruit spreads, orange curd
Cinnamon buns and other pastries
Fresh clementine juice
Lindt balls

I'd like to know more about this please! Are the buns tightly placed? Single cream? How does it work?

And also which cinnamon rolls are you using?

My uncontested Christmas breakfast is Babycham and Matchmakers.

Everyone else gets cinnamon buns.

This is pure heaven!!!

We have it every Xmas

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1S1fXE-hNu4

Nothing will ever beat the surprise pancakes with cream and chocolate sauce which DH made a few years ago on Christmas Eve morning

We do the same every year - big brunch, walk, the odd canapé and then Christmas supper.

Brunch is special fruit salad with Greek yoghurt. Then local smoked salmon, roasted tomatoes and scrambled eggs on toasted English muffins, with sautéed wild mushrooms. Coffee and Buck’s Fizz (or champagne for the bold) to drink and homemade sourdough toast with jam or local honeycomb.

Ooh yay! I do my special Christmas citrus cherry fruit salad starter which I prepare the night before:

• Peel and slice grapefruit and orange (I remove the membrane too)
• stone and half cherries

-add lime zest

• make marinade which is maple syrup, juice and zest of an orange, juice of 2 x limes + big chunk of ginger, bring to boil and then simmer for 10 mins. Remove ginger and pour over fruit
• put in fridge overnight
• serve in pretty glasses

I follow this with smoked salmon, roasted tomatoes and scrambled eggs on muffins. I make the scrambled eggs fancy by using an obscene amount of butter and an equal ratio of double cream to eggs + chopped chives after cooking

My child has strawberry pancake santas

I make nigellas cranberry and clementine muffins for mid morning With coffee.

Christmas breakfast is my favourite meal of the year :)

Love Christmas breakfast! It's tradition in my family to have some thick homecooked ham and fried eggs with good bread and butter, delicious! We also have some posh orange juice with bits, fresh fruit plate with berries etc and a selection of pastries.

Bacon and egg rolls and champagne here for Christmas breakfast (posh OJ for the non drinkers)

Good quality orange juice, tea, coffee
Champagne
Smoked salmon and bagels
Granola with Greek yoghurt and fruit

We always have a big cooked breakfast on Christmas Day, as we have our roast on Boxing Day.
I always make Nigellas Christmas morning muffins too. You can mix the dry ingredients night before, then finish them in the morning. They smell delicious while they’re cooking. We have them with lots of real butter (a treat in our house!).

As someone said upthread, it’s all in the quality of the ingredients to make things special for brunch. I really notice it. Freshly squeezed orange juice, not Tropicana and the proper butter etc