Christmas breakfast - croissant

[ineedanotherholiday]

Hi all,

Usually for Xmas breakfast we have focaccia with Parma ham & poached egg but this year we are having it Xmas eve instead to save room for Xmas dinner on the day but also because it's the first year with our baby and I want to spend as much time with him as possible. So I've bought some croissants but wondering if anyone has some amazing recipe
To jazz them up?

I'm thinking of baking them with fruit perhaps? Any ideas please send them my way!

I don’t really understand how does poaching an egg take any time away from him?

We buy the just roll ones you make yourself then put real butter and Parma ham and rocket on the
. Which is yum but essentially what you're doing with focaccia.

We just put out a spread of fresh baked croissants, jam, honey, butter, smoked salmon, boiled eggs, sliced cheese, cucumbers and cherry tomatoes, coffee and orange juice. Let everyone help themselves. Easy!

Hazelnut and raspberry www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/h/hazelnut-and-raspberrycroissants.html

Banana and salted butterscotch realfood.tesco.com/recipes/sugared-croissants-with-bananas-and-salted-butterscotch-sauce.html

Gordon Ramsay does a recipe with toasted croissants, smoked salmon and scrambled egg. But if the focaccia and poached egg is too much trouble, this will be too!

We love croissants with nutella and rasberries or strawberries, warmed on the George Foreman grill. And thats what we'll be having on Christmas morning 😀

The thing is any recipe is likely to take longer than it would be to put some foccacia and ham on the table and poach or softly boil an egg.

For us, we have cheesy scrambled egg, smoked salmon, croissants and then pastries, pan au chocolate and cinnamon swirls. Everything on the table at once to help your self too. Along with some Buck’s Fizz.

Even baking fruit is likely to take longer than cooking an egg.

Thanks all

@Bluntness100 I meant to put in my op I was thinking of perhaps a bake ahead recipe. I've done some make ahead french toast type bake things before so was wondering if something similar could be done with croissants

@Justcashnosweets we usually have that too but I've never tried putting them on the George foreman, that sounds amazing!

@ineedanotherholiday its a really quick way of heating them up without faffing with the oven!

Buy some good quality marzipan. Slice croissants in half lengthways, add a slice or two of marzipan, close over croissants and bake as normal to warm through.

Get some good plain chocolate, stab the croissant through the thick centre and push fingers of chocolate into the pocket you've created. Heat to warm through.

Heat to warm the croissant, cut open fill with sliced banana & brandy cream or sliced strawberries & cream.

Go Italian and just fill them with Nutella.

its 3 minutes to poach an egg, I don't think I could find anything that takes less time

just find a really good artisan bakery and have naked croissants

Cheese and ham melted for me, I don't like them with anything sweet.

Marron glacé spread