Christmas morning breakfast ideas including pancakes, quiche, donuts, and breakfast tacos. Start the holiday right with these 18 delicious ideas for your holiday brunch.
Unwrapping presents, singing carols, and re-watching The Muppet Christmas Carol can take a lot of out of a person.
If you want to keep up your strength, you need to start with a satiating Christmas morning breakfast.
In preparation for the upcoming festivities, here are 18 holiday brunch ideas.
The list includes recipes that can be made the day before, as well as sweet treats, and savory options.
(And if you are so inclined, any would go well with a cranberry mimosa or Bloody Mary!)
In this post:
Cinnamon donuts
Nothing like having baked cinnamon donuts for Christmas morning breakfast to make it really feel like a celebration.
For best results, serve with a steaming cup of hot coffee.
Vegan French toast
This decadent vegan French toast is easy breakfast to make, thanks to leftover vegan egg nog!
Use homemade nog as the dipping liquid for stale bread. Then brown it in a skillet with non-dairy butter, sprinkle with cinnamon, and add your choice of toppings.
(Strawberries are especially nice!)
Vegan quiche
The nice thing about these crustless mini vegan quiche is that you can fully make the recipe the day before. This quiche is delicious hot, cold, or at room temperature.
These hand-held vegan egg bites are filled with red bell pepper, onions, kale, and seitan bacon.
They can be made in the air fryer or oven. It’s also easy to make them gluten free.
Vegan frittata
If you’d prefer a full-sized crustless quiche, make a vegan frittata instead.
It’s made with the same ingredients but baked in a pie pan.
Breakfast tacos
If Santa really had his druthers, instead of getting cookies at every house, he'd get vegan breakfast tacos.
Do that jolly old elf a solid and serve gluten-free tacos for your Christmas morning breakfast.
They are packed with seasoned tofu, beans, corn, bell peppers, onions, and garlic.
Finish them with a dollop of guacamole and pinch of cilantro in warmed corn tortillas.
Toasted sandwich
On Christmas morning, you've got to keep your hands free for unwrapping. No time for forks and knives. Toasted breakfast sandwiches to the rescue!
In just fifteen minutes you can have a satisfying toasted sandwich with melty non-dairy cheese, eggy tofu, and seitan bacon.
Vegan egg mcmuffin
Here’s a cozy bit of nostalgia – vegan egg mcmuffins!
Enjoy this vegan take on that classic fast food sandwich.
It’s made with eggy tofu, vegan ham, and non-dairy cheddar on a toasted English muffin.
Vegan breakfast sandwich
Or make a bagel breakfast sandwich!
Fill it with Just Egg, non-dairy cheese, and veggie sausage. The sausage can be made on the stove or in the air fryer.
It's wonderfully filling & portable.
Vegan shakshuka
Make the tomato & bell pepper sauce ahead of time for this vegan shakshuka.
Then on Christmas morning, it's just a matter of browning & seasoning eggy tofu, and adding your preferred toppings, like torn spinach, avocado, and vegan feta cheese.
Serve with warm bread for maximum coziness.
Apple cinnamon pancakes
These whole wheat apple cinnamon pancakes are dotted bite sized chunks of diced apple.
Finish with a pat of non-dairy butter and drizzling of maple syrup.
Tofu scramble
On Christmas Day, there's a lot of cookies, pies, and sweets to be had.
So I like to start the day with something protein-packed and full of colorful vegetables like a tofu scramble.
It’s loaded with kale, red bell peppers, and onions. Serve with avocado and toast.
Vegan eggs Benedict
Brunch just got a whole lot more indulgent with mouthwatering vegan eggs Benedict.
Classic eggs Benedict gets a plant based take with eggy tofu, seitan ham, and a healthy ladling of vegan hollandaise sauce.
Vegan grits
Warm and creamy vegan grits are a cold weather favorite in my house. It's like corn's answer to oatmeal.
Enjoy it on its own with a pat of non-dairy butter. Or top it with with savory vegan sausage and browned Brussels sprouts.
Breakfast potatoes
Of course, it just isn't brunch without potatoes.
Make a batch of breakfast potatoes with onions and bell peppers.
They can be made in the oven or air fryer.
Carrot lox
If you crave smoky, salty, briny flavors, you’ll love carrot lox.
It goes beautifully on a bagel with a slathering of vegan cream cheese, fresh dill, and capers.
Make the carrot lox ahead of time. Then all you have to do Christmas morning is toast the bagels & assemble.
Corn cakes
Savory corn cakes are dotted with kernels of corn. Think of them as a naturally gluten-free pancake, similar to an arepa.
Great for brunch with a tofu scramble on the side.
Breakfast burritos
When you need to start the day with a meal that feels like a hug, look no further than vegan breakfast burritos.
Warm tortillas encase seitan sausage, potatoes, and a tofu scramble. Serve with avocado, guacamole, or salsa.
Save a step by making the tofu scramble and potatoes the day before. Then it's just a matter of filling your burritos.
Breakfast quesadilla
This breakfast quesadilla is filled with eggy tofu, spinach, onions, and bell peppers. It has the flavor of a Denver omelet in the form of a vegan quesadilla.
Serve it with salsa and guacamole.
Content updated March 1, 2024. Originally posted December 23, 2019.
Penny
I need to make those mini quiches! All of these look delicious!
Cadry
Yes, you do! 🙂 Thanks, Penny!