An Easy (and frugal) Christmas Breakfast
Posted by Lynnae on December 19, 2007
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I love traditions. Expecting the same things from year to year. To this day, I still make apple pie the way my grandmother, and then my mother, made it. I look back fondly at memories of spending Christmas Eve with my parents and brothers, and then going over to my grandparents’ house on Christmas day to celebrate with the extended family.
After my husband and I had our first child, we changed our traditions a bit. We wanted to start our own traditions. Instead of opening our gifts on Christmas Eve the way my family had always done, we started opening our gifts first thing Christmas morning.
Knowing that my children would need something to eat for breakfast shortly after opening gifts, yet not being one to want to miss out on the action, I went in search of yummy, easy, make ahead recipes for a nice Christmas breakfast. I’ve been making the following two recipes every Christmas for several years now. The beauty of these recipes (besides the fact that they’re delicious) is that they are both made the day before. On Christmas morning, I just heat up the oven and bake. Breakfast is usually ready right about the time we finish opening presents.
If you’re looking for something easy to make for Christmas breakfast, you might want to give these a try.
Ingredients
- 1 pound pork sausage
- 6 (1 ounce) slices bread, cubed
- 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
- 6 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground dry mustard
Directions
- Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until evenly brown. Drain, and set aside.
- Layer bread cubes, sausage, and Cheddar cheese in a lightly greased 7×11 inch baking dish. In a bowl, beat together the eggs, milk, salt, and mustard. Pour the egg mixture over the bread cube mixture. Cover, and refrigerate at least 8 hours or overnight.
- Remove the casserole from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bake 50 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
I’ve substituted bacon for the sausage before, and it’s really good. You could get really creative in adding ingredients like mushrooms and onions or ham and broccoli. The leftovers make a really good breakfast on the day after Christmas, too.
Ingredients
- 20 unbaked frozen dinner rolls
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
Directions
- Lightly grease a 10 inch Bundt cake pan. Place frozen rolls into pan and sprinkle with brown sugar, pudding mix, ground cinnamon and raisins. Pour melted butter over rolls. Cover with a clean, damp cloth and leave overnight at room temperature.
- In the morning, preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Bake rolls for 25 minutes, until golden brown. Turn rolls out onto a serving plate and serve warm.
I first tasted this recipe when a co-worker brought it to school over 10 years ago. The whole staff was asking her for the recipe! Also called monkey bread, these cinnamon buns are so sweet and sticky. They’re a perfect sweet addition to the sausage and egg strata. I usually substitute walnuts for the raisins, because my kids don’t like the raisins.
I usually make the strata in the afternoon before heading off to our Christmas Eve service. I prep the cinnamon buns after we get home from church. It only takes about five minutes.
Do you have any special recipes for Christmas morning? Feel free to share in a blog post, and I’ll be glad to link you! Or you could just tell me in the comments!
Recipes from Allrecipes.com. Photo by Harley Allkins.
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I really love that everyone is sharing their traditions. It’s amazing how many different ones there are…
Those cinnamon rolls sound really good! I don’t have any frozen bread, but I bet I could use the dough for regular cinnamon rolls and roll them into balls before the second rise!
We usually have something like cinnamon rolls and sometimes a hash brown casserole (like tater tot casserole) after we get back from Midnight Mass. You wouldn’t think you’d be hungry at 2:30am, but funny enough, you are LOL.
These are great recipes - I’ve made them both on occasion. For the monkey bread, I use butterscotch pudding instead of vanilla and pecans instead of raisins but either way would be good. I’ve also made the it with canned biscuits when I was in a hurry–not as good but fast.
Well now I’m hungry!
Very nice. I especially like the comparatively easy cinnamon rolls. Some recipes are so complicated and it’s hard to have time on Christmas. My mom uses her breadmaker to make ours for Christmas morning.
Thanks for sharing these recipes! They sound yummy and best of all EASY! I can barely get my kids to sit still on Christmas morning, so taking a lot time to prep for breakfast is out of the question! I will be trying the cinnamon rolls for sure this year!
Can I come to your house for Christmas?
I wonder if people would take recipe suggestions from my blog? . . . hmmm. . .
Nice recipe! I’ll hand over these recipes to my Mom! Hope these will be delicious!
Yummy recipes!
DH’s traditional breakfast on Christmas was always Cinnamon Rolls baked the night before. MIL still hands out plates to whoever wants them on Christmas Eve to take home for the morning.
At my house, we always had a breakfast casserole!
You covered both our traditions in one post!
Yup that egg and sausage casserole thingie is what we have usually too!! I never eat it…I opt to take the time to make myself a bagel instead
Thanks so much for the recipes! I’m going to make the cinnamon rolls for brunch at my in-laws on Christmas morning and I’m hoping they’ll be a big hit! My MIL hates raisins though, so I think I might sub in toasted, slivered almonds and maybe toss some vanilla extract in there as well. Nevertheless, thanks so much and happy holidays!