adminHave a delicious breakfast ready and waiting after the holiday morning fun with these make-ahead Christmas Breakfast Ideas. They’re easy to make and even easier to reheat…and check the boxes for being kid- and parent-approved.
Make-Ahead Christmas Breakfast Ideas
I love a holiday morning when the normal rules go out the window—and the last thing I want is to be stuck in the kitchen cooking while the rest of the family is having fun. So these make-ahead breakfast ideas are perfect for a holiday and are great to make ahead of time.
Each feels special and yet doesn’t require fancy or fussy ingredients or cooking methods.
Each can be made 1-3 days ahead and stored in the fridge, or a few weeks ahead and stashed into the freezer. Then, you can thaw overnight in the fridge or at room temperature and simply be warm through and serve.
Pair these with some cut up fruit, your coffee or tea, and have a happy morning with the family.
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Christmas Pancakes
The batter comes together in a blender, just like making a smoothie, so it’s very easy. The key to the color? Spinach! But no worries, you can’t taste it. They just taste like a seriously delicious banana pancake.
Bright green and super fun, these Christmas Pancakes are a perfect holiday breakfast to share with the kids. They can be made on the stovetop or in the oven and are packed with nutrition—and yummy flavor!
Blueberry Yogurt Cake
Like a giant blueberry muffin, only easier to bake, this stores so well in the fridge or freezer.
Bursting with fresh lemon flavor, tenderness from yogurt, and sweetness from berries, this Blueberry Yogurt Cake is the most delicious breakfast or snack—or dessert—to share with the kids. Plus: It’s so easy to make!
Gingerbread Cake
Tender and with cozy spices, this easy cake is perfect for breakfast. It stores really well in the fridge or freezer so it’s ideal to make ahead and serve.
With mellow, warm spices and a super simple method, this easy Gingerbread Cake is perfectly seasonal and festive. Serve it with decorative sprinkles or add whipped cream or cream cheese frosting.
Bacon and Egg Muffins
All of your favorite breakfast elements together in one little muffin, these savory egg muffins are festive and easy to make.
I like adding the thyme in these for extra flavor, but it’s optional! Be sure to grease your muffin tin well with nonstick spray to help prevent these from sticking to the pan. A nonstick mini muffin pan works best here.
Cinnamon Muffins
With simple ingredients, natural sweetness, and a super easy stir-together method, these healthy Cinnamon Muffins are a great breakfast for kids. They even have a Snickerdoodle-like topping!
Made with a base of applesauce and whole grain flour, these easy mini muffins are sweet enough to taste like a treat!
Baked French Toast
Skip standing over the stove and bake up these yummy Eggnog French Toast Sticks in one fell swoop on a sheet pan. They make for a delicious family breakfast and they store well in the fridge or freezer for an easy-to-reheat holiday breakfast.
(Not into Egg Nog? Here’s a Banana Baked French Toast option.)
You can make this recipe ahead of time and warm up a few sticks for a quick breakfast on future days or make the whole batch as a family breakfast.
Homemade Granola
This homemade granola is way easy and delicious to make, even if you have toddlers underfoot and calling for your attention. And it’s perfect with fruit and your favorite yogurt!
This healthy granola recipe uses applesauce for sweetness and bakes at a lower temperature to lower the risk of burning around the edges. Plus, find an option to make it without added sugar id desired.
Baked Oatmeal
Stir together this wholesome Baked Oatmeal recipe before bed, pop it into the oven when you wake up, and you can sit down to a hearty bowl of oatmeal with the family without any standing by the stove and stirring!
Pumpkin Bars
The method is so quick and easy and the result is moist and full of pumpkin goodness. The chocolate chips are a nice touch too.
These bars are tender when warm out of the oven, so do be sure to let them cool completely before slicing.
Easy Banana Bread
Bake up healthy comfort food with this super easy and super delicious lower sugar Banana Bread. It’s so easy, so good, and is a perfect breakfast to share with the kids—adding a handful of chocolate chips is a fun way to make it even more festive!
Be sure to use super ripe bananas—the more black and brown spots, the better the flavor and sweetness will be!—for the best results here. Adapted from The Salty Marshmallow
Sweet Potato Donuts
Cozy spices and an easy technique team up in this delicious baked donut recipe.
You can roast the sweet potato up to 3 days ahead of time and store it in the fridge until you’re ready to bake these. Or use canned or jarred puree. (Recipe updated Sept 2021.)
Apple Pancakes
These are easy to warm up and serve or you can prep the dry ingredients ahead and bake on a sheet pan!
These apple pancakes are hearty and filled with freshly shredded apples and oats, so expect them to have a lot of texture!
Peppermint Donuts
I love to bake healthy treats to share with my kids and these Baked Mint Chocolate Donuts are a seasonal treat we’re loving right now! They are lower in added sugar than any frosted donut you’d buy at the store but taste so darn good. Plus: They’re so easy to make!
Thanks to applesauce and pure maple syrup, these baked mint chocolate donuts are lower in added sugar and more nutritious than your average dessert. Sweet memories are guaranteed if you let the kids help make the batter and crush the candy canes!
Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Easy and fresh, these blueberry muffins are a perfect way to celebrate. I love lemon flavors in the winter, so these are a go-to…and they work with frozen berries too.
Christmas Kolaches
My husband grew up eating kolaches for the holidays so we always make a batch too.
Kolaches taste like a much-less-sweet version of a classic breakfast pastry. They pair amazingly well with strong coffee and early holiday mornings.
Gingerbread Muffins
Classic gingerbread flavor in muffin form? So easy and delicious!
With mellow yet flavorful warm spices and a super easy method, these Gingerbread Muffins are (dare I say it) perfect.
Easy Pumpkin Bread
With a quick stir together technique and hands off baking, this moist pumpkin bread is a delicious way to start the day.
This bread has the classic flavor and moist crumb of a traditional Pumpkin Bread, but with half the sugar. It stores well too! (Heads up: There’s a full can of pumpkin puree In this, so it takes a little longer to bake.)
Cranberry Orange Bread
Bursting with fresh fruit flavor, this is a holiday breakfast that stores so well in the fridge or freezer.
This quick bread works really well to bake ahead and store in the fridge or freezer until ready to serve it. We love it topped with cream cheese, but butter and honey also work.
French Toast Casserole
You can use fresh or frozen berries in this recipe and almost any type of bread you like. Top it with plain, vanilla, or lemon yogurt—or whipped cream.
Learn how to make the easiest French toast casserole with this simple method. It works with any fruit and is a great option for using up leftover bread!
Best Tips for Success
- Make any of these recipes from start to finish up to 3 days ahead and store in an airtight container in the fridge. Warm through to serve, as desired.
- Make any of these recipes from start to finish up to 3 months ahead and store in the freezer in a freezer bag (with as much air removed as possible). Thaw overnight in the fridge or at room temperature and warm through to serve.
- Let a recipe cool completely before storing.
- Learn more details about how to freeze muffins and how to freeze pancakes.
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I’d love to hear what you make for Christmas breakfast or if you have feedback on any of these ideas so please comment below to share!
This post was first published December 2020.
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