Christmas Morning Breakfast Ideas

[ILoveGroot]

Looking for inspiration for breakfast ideas for Christmas Day morning.

We have done Nigellas Christmas muffins, Delias stollen toasted

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/collections/delia-online-cookery-school/christmas-stollen

Poached eggs on muffins with homemade chilli jam, croissants with christmas jam, or just tea and lebkuchen!

What do others do?

Chocolate coins is my usual go to!

Bacon buns with the in-laws, then maybe some chocolate mid morning

Honestly? Terry's chocolate orange!! I generally can't do a proper breakfast on Christmas Day because it spoils my lunch (and I want to be STARVING for that) but at my mum's once we had sourdough toast with pesto instead of butter, then a layer of parma ham, and a poached egg on top. It's suitably fancy for the occasion and delicious 🙂

Smoked salmon on toast with lemon and black pepper. Cream cheese too for those who want it.

We have Christmas dinner about 1pm so we skip breakfast as it’s just too much food. However, bagels can be a good option with different toppings and doesn’t take much effort while prepping other stuff

I do a little mini buffet, of fruit, pancakes, shortbread, cookies, croissants, waffles, eggs, bacon & sausages & rolls

We just have croissants with butter/jam because for elevenses we have this hot smoked salmon pate (I know it says trout, but Tesco doesn’t sell hot smoked trout 🤷🏻‍♀️) with toasts and this is one of the best parts of the Christmas Day feast, so can’t spoil it with a big breakfast.

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish/baby-yorkshire-puds-creamy-smoked-trout-horseradish-pate/

(I don’t make the Yorkshire puddings but I’m sure they’re also lovely).

@ILoveGroot thanks for starting this thread as I love hearing what others have on Christmas morning.

I always have an idea to do home made cinammon rolls - but never get round to it 😄 maybe this year.

Usually just have a coffee first thing and possibly croissant. Then smoked salmon nibbles with champgne at 11.30

Christmas 'lunch' isn't until 4pm after the hound has been walked.

We don't have any, set breakfast because its usually just DH and myself. Normally just something light if we are having a big lunch.
Toasted panettone is nice and a good way to use one up.

We do the frozen pastries from M&S but everyone sells them now.

We do the frozen pastries from M&S but everyone sells them now.

We don't have dinner until the evening on xmas day so we have sausages, bacon, black pudding, toast, pancakes and scrambled eggs for breakfast mid morning (kids are grown).

Pain au choc and butter croissants with jam. Fairly light as usually tbh err is some chocolate involved too and we eat our main meal at lunch time so don’t want anything too heavy.

I set out croissants and a selection of toppings such as cream cheese, salami, smoked salmon etc.

Everyone helps themselves from what is set out. The only "cooking" required is a quick zap in the microwave to warm the croissants.

The oven is occupied by the turkey on Christmas morning so a croissant breakfast works well for us.

Toasted pannetone with lots of butter, followed by chocolate orange!

DH's family always do cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast. I'm still learning to bake them myself but I followed this recipe with the 'overnight' instructions last year and it worked so well. I made them after the children were in bed, whipped them out of the fridge when the first child woke up and then an hour later they were ready for the oven. https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/overnight-cinnamon-rolls/

We do Santa pancakes but that’s a bit low brow I think

@floofydoofy oh my gosh - that is definitely happening this year.

Thank you for the recipe link 😍

It’s usually chocolate for us or maybe some toast. I do a big breakfast for Christmas Eve but with cooking Christmas dinner and the general madness of Christmas with small children I don’t have it in me to do a proper breakfast

We have assorted pastries and start on the chocolate.

And the booze.

jus-rol croissants, fancy jam and Buck’s Fizz
years ago we had bacon butters but keep it light now

We do bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese, scrambled eggs, mimosas, fruit salad or fresh berries. There can be cinnamon buns, croissants and pain au raisin too but usually people want bagels.

We cheat with the Jus Roll cinnamon rolls, pain au chocolat and croissants. All the treat of baked fresh without the prep!! Oh and fresh fruit to counter balance all the chocolate lol

We do a selection of mini vegan pastries (that DH goes to fetch on Christmas Eve morning) as they are a real treat when a few if us are dairy intolerant and around £50 so feel it needs a special occasion.

We tend to have croissants as it’s easy and everyone is going to have a big lunch anyway.