Christmas Breakfast Ideas

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What does everyone do for breakfast on Christmas morning?

We have a mixture of options to chose from (we have one of these not all of them 😆):

• Homemade stollen toasted with butter
• Christmas muffins with cranberries and clementine
• Christmas pancakes
• Krispy Kreme Christmas doughnuts
• Lebkuchen and cups of tea
• Bacon and egg wraps

We don't have a full roast on Christmas day, so usually want to have something special for breakfast

We usually just have bacon sandwiches or something similar on Christmas morning but this year we’re hosting “Christmas breakfast” for PIL and we’re going to so like a breakfast platter! So plan is to do fresh fruit, bacon, sausages, hash browns, eggs, toast, crumpets, pancakes with different toppings in little pots, some pastries etc and everyone can help themselves!

Ooh, the toasted stollen sounds nice. Disappointed you only do one of these: a big breakfast buffet of them all plus fruit sounds delightful.

Pre-kids I did a chocolate and cinnamon bread wreath snowflake thing: looks amazing but very easy, then later on, smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, bagels and mimosas for brunch, as Christmas dinner invariably ends up at a random non-mealtime like 3pm. Post-kids (who are at “climb the Christmas tree and set fire to the cat” age) we do… cereal

We have croissants/pastries - usually nicer ones than we might have at other times.

That all sounds lovely!

We have smoked salmon on buttered seeded bread.

Fried egg sandwich and bucks fizz 😆

Most of your list is too sweet for me. (I like sweet but I'll be eating a lot of sweet throughout the day so would rather err towards savoury.)

DH and I have bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese. Kids (6 and 3) tend to have their usual cereal with some chocolate coins on the side. I've tried to entice them with reindeer shaped crumpets in previous years, but they just love their Cheerios! 😂

I make orange and cranberry bagels (great British bake off recipe) and last year served sourdough rye toast with a choice of toppings eg I had wilted spinach, smoked salmon and cream cheese, veggie DD's had fried egg instead of salmon and vegan brother had mushrooms & vegan cream cheese subbed for the egg and cheese, some other had bacon and eggs instead. By having 6 things or so ready but letting people have the bits they want it means we all got a favourite breakfast.

Salmon here as well! We usually do eggs royale which feels fancy as we never have it at home usually. DS will have a muffin with an egg, minus the salmon, followed by chocolate (ours is followed by fizz).

All these ideas sound lovely, I love the sound of a help yourself buffet with lots of different choices, but there are only 3 of us so I fear we would end up with a lot to eat 😂

Oh my...krispy kreme doughnuts for breakfast. I LOVE this idea.

Last year I got a pancake pan which cooks christmas images into each pancake, so pancakes were a must!

We do a selection of smoked salmon, sourdough and scrambled eggs or smoked salmon cream cheese bagels, plus a spread of pastries like danish, pain au chocolat etc, with orange juice and/or champagne. Really easy to assemble and everyone can help themselves.

Christmas themed ones.... yummy!

I'd major on savoury with something sweet available too.

Bacon and egg but in a baguette rather than a wrap. Easy way for a crowd is to split and fill the entire loaf then slice it into individual portions.

We usually do frozen pastries or croissants.

Christmas-themed crumpets, eg Asda reindeer ones.

A fancy as in unusual fruit, lightly spiced fruit salad and Greek yogurt homemade granola. Less virtuous than it seems but very light to make room for a belly buster day of snacks, a roast and sandwiches in the evening

I buy reindeer crumpets every year for DS's visit ( he's 34).

I used to do croissants/pain au chocolate/ Christmas crumpets etc when my sons were younger. Now they are teenagers everyone gets up at different times so it's usually cereal, then big Christmas dinner around 1pm . I'm always the first up now 🤣😍😍

We often have friends pop in from 9am onwards and I've 4 kids and I will be doing our roast about 2-3 so I do a breakfast buffet, very low fuss.

I make fake bucks fizz for the kiddos (orange juice and lemonade) and hot chocolate in the slow cooker i top with cream (baileys cream for adults if they fancy) and a chocolate coin and candy cane on the side with some snowflake or edible glitter sprinkles. (I use the Christmas baking sprinkles, i get mine from home bargain) and even though i dont drink i do have actual bucks fizz and baileys hot chocolate or coffee or amaretto coffee/mocha available.

Because the roast is our main event i have a selection of pastries, mini pancakes and berries/clementines with nice jams and chocolate spread for the kids.

Adults i do a really easy oven breakfast which is oven cooked streaky bacon, oven cooked sourdough crumpets with melted brie on and a dollop of cranberry sauce and plate them up looking nice.
(I have a Muslim neighbour who pops in and I I'll cook hers under the grill and use turkey bacon so no contamination)

For boxing day I do French toast with brioche, streaky bacon because usually we've loads left over from cooking the turkey, with blueberries and maple syrup before our buffet kicks off.

I did do muffins with hollandaise, smoked salmon and poached egg one year but it didn't feel as festive as I wanted and I felt disappointed 😂

We have muffins with poached eggs and hollandaise and fried parma ham. We saw it on a Gordon ramsay programme about 18 years ago and have had it every Xmas morning since. We never have it any other time! Nothing sweet. No alcohol until 12. Then champagne and present opening.

DS gets up horribly early at Christmas (well every day really) so I just put some sort of pastries in the oven as soon as we get up. I bring pastry and bacon sandwiches through at some point for a pause during present unwrapping. Smoked salmon blinis for grown ups with Buck’s Fizz, and pancakes and hot choc for DS at around 11am to tide us over to late lunch.

Smoked salmon bagels. Easy peasy.

It varies year on year, depending on how many come for breakfast, who is going where for dinner, and what time dinner is being served.

Sometimes it’s pastries, other years a fry.

Pastries would be homemade cinnamon knots, either bostok or French toast, and croissants.

For a fry we’d have bacon, sausage and runny egg in soft sour dough baps.

We've decided to move christmas breakfast back to Christmas Eve brunch to be able to enjoy it properly!

No breakfast on Christmas Day as I’m running around like a blue arsed fly. We do a breakfast with santa locally Christmas Eve. It’s worth the money even with the older kids