57 Simple Christmas Brunch Menu Ideas for a Crowd
The best Christmas brunch menu ideas! These easy Christmas breakfast ideas include savory and sweet recipes like brunch appetizers, sides, casseroles, and amazing baked goods.
Is there anything better than brunch?
The variety of sweet and savory breakfast items – and the novelty of gathering with family or friends in the morning – make it feel so special.
And make it a holiday brunch, and it’s all the better!
In case you’re on the hunt for some new recipes, I put together a list of the best Christmas brunch ideas.
These festive holiday breakfast recipes include:
- Easy make ahead casseroles
- Festive brunch boards
- Fun appetizers and side dishes
- Delicious sweet treats and baked goods
Many of them are super easy recipes, with inexpensive ingredients and a good mix or sweet and savory.
So whether you’re hosting a holiday brunch or attending a Christmas breakfast potluck, there are a ton of fun ideas to choose from.
Let’s check ‘em out!
(🎄 Need more delicious holiday food ideas? You’ll love these festive Christmas dinner ideas, crowd-pleasing holiday charcuterie boards, quick and easy Christmas appetizers, and irresistible holiday cheesecakes!)
Easy Christmas Brunch Recipes
Christmas Tree Breakfast Appetizers
Christmas Tree Breakfast Appetizers are a simple tower of star-shaped puff pastry, egg, ham and cheese layers.
So fun for your holiday brunch!
Crockpot Christmas Breakfast Casserole
Christmas Breakfast Casserole is loaded with flavor and made in the Crock-Pot.
With the perfect combination of potatoes, cheese, sausage, eggs, peppers, and onions, it makes a delicious Holiday breakfast or tasty any morning or the year!
Fruit Christmas Tree
This Fruit Christmas Tree centerpiece is such a beautiful, and easy way to display fresh fruit on your holiday table.
A colorful assortment of fresh cut fruit is secured to a craft cone with toothpicks, creating a beautiful fruit tree display.
Perfect for holiday brunch or appetizers!
Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole
Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole combines all the flavors of ooey, gooey cinnamon rolls with the convenience of a breakfast casserole!
Easy to make, ready for the oven in under 10 minutes, and perfect for Christmas morning breakfast or a holiday brunch.
Christmas Sausage Roll Wreath with Cranberries
This gorgeous Christmas sausage roll wreath is such a show-stopping appetizer for the holiday season.
It’s easy, takes only 10 minutes to prep and is stuffed with festive cranberries and pecans.
Cinnamon Sugar Puff Pastry Christmas Tree
Create holiday magic in your kitchen with the Cinnamon Sugar Puff Pastry Christmas Tree!
It’s like a warm, cinnamon-sugar hug that doubles as breakfast or dessert.
Sausage Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sliders
Fluffy scrambled eggs, melted cheese, and savory breakfast sausage piled onto fresh sweet rolls and drizzled with butter and maple syrup make these Breakfast Sliders a guaranteed crowd favorite.
Sheet Pan Oven Pancakes
Sheet Pan Pancakes are a super-easy way to make pancakes for a crowd, without standing over the stove for an hour.
Light and fluffy and baked in the oven, these pancakes are sweet, delicious, and can be topped off with your favorite toppings.
Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast Casserole
Easy Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast Casserole comes together with just 7 simple ingredients! Combine biscuits with breakfast sausage, eggs, white peppered gravy, and cheese.
It’s so delicious that you’ll want to make this hearty Southern-inspired breakfast over and over.
Breakfast Waffle Charcuterie Board
Perfect for Christmas Eve or Christmas breakfast!
With waffles, fruit, bowls of tasty toppings, syrups, and spreads, this breakfast charcuterie board makes mornings so much fun.
Everyone will love customizing their own waffles!
Cranberry Breakfast Bread Pudding
Cranberry Breakfast Bread Pudding is an easy overnight casserole with cream cheese, fresh tart cranberry flavor, and an eggnog infused custard.
Savory Breakfast Bundt Cake
Breakfast Bundt Cake is a new way to make a delicious and savory breakfast.
The combination of eggs, potatoes, cheese, ham, and veggies cooked in a bundt cake pan makes for an easy breakfast dish that looks so beautiful.
Christmas Tree Charcuterie Board
It doesn’t get easier or more festive than your favorite meats, cheese, fruit, vegetables and nuts displayed in a Christmas tree shape.
Eggnog Bread Pudding
Eggnog Bread Pudding is an eggnog lover's dream come true. It has a rich dreamy eggnog custard with a lightly crisp top, and is incredibly quick and easy to make.
It uses freshly sliced bread so the soaking time is reduced and you can have it ready in as little as an hour.
Christmas Deviled Eggs
Everything from the Christmas colors to the fresh herbs, lemon and garlic in the filling makes these Christmas Deviled Eggs truly special.
They are sure to disappear fast, so make extra!
Gingerbread Coffee Cake
Easy Gingerbread Coffee Cake has all kinds of festive flavor!
The moist and delicious cake {that starts with a cake mix} is topped with a buttery cinnamon topping and eggnog glaze that's just perfect spiced and flavored.
Holiday Fruit Salad
This vibrant Holiday Fruit Salad is a mix of the season’s best fruits, perfect for any meal on your holiday table.
Bursting with color, flavor, and healthful benefits, this salad is a perfect blend of sweet, juicy, and crisp.
Baked Eggs With Ham and Cheese
Baked Eggs with Ham and Cheese in toast in the oven means you can make several servings at once!
With budget friendly easy-to-find ingredients everyone will enjoy these fun combination of breakfast foods.
Biscoff Puff Pastry Christmas Tree
You can't get much easier (or tastier) than this Biscoff Puff Pastry Christmas Tree.
It’s a simple pull apart Christmas tree made with puff pastry,has essentially only two ingredients and takes less than 30 minutes from start to finish.
Cheesy Egg & Bacon Casserole
This Easy Breakfast Casserole Recipe (made on Good Morning America!) is filled with fluffy eggs, irresistible bacon, garlicky greens, hearty hash browns and cheese.
Christmas Tree Cinnamon Rolls
Turn Christmas breakfast into a festive affair with these Cinnamon Roll Christmas Trees.
People of all ages will get a kick out of this fun treat!
Eggs Benedict Casserole
If you love Eggs Benedict but dislike the fuss, this easy eggs Benedict casserole is the answer.
It’s loaded with all the classic Benedict flavors like Canadian bacon, English muffins, eggs, and homemade Hollandaise sauce.
Strawberry Christmas Trees
Strawberry Christmas Trees involve juicy strawberries covered with a sweet candy coating.
These adorable treats that are perfect for gifting and serving to friends and family this holiday season.
Cheesy Sausage Pull Apart Breakfast Bake
Cheesy Sausage Pull Apart Breakfast Bake is a delicious, family-friendly breakfast bake that everyone will love nibbling on during casual weekends or special holidays.
Christmas Tree Waffles
These are the cutest waffles that you will ever make! Green Christmas tree waffles make a fun Christmas breakfast that your kids are gonna love.
So quick and easy to make, and everyone will have fun decorating their own trees.
Cinnamon Roll Wreath
This Cinnamon Roll Wreath is a classic cinnamon roll recipe that is formed into a festive wreath instead of individual rolls.
Drizzled with tangy cream cheese frosting and Christmas morning never tasted so good!
Chorizo, Egg & Green Chili Breakfast Casserole
With just 20 minutes of prep, Chorizo, Egg, & Green Chile Casserole is an easy, make ahead way to feed a crowd.
Best of all, it’s super flavorful and packed with satisfying protein.
Cranberry Orange Muffins
Whip up a batch of Cranberry Orange Muffins in under 30 minutes for a quick, simple treat that perfectly blends tart cranberries with sweet, citrusy orange.
These moist muffins come alive with warm spices, making them a bright and festive addition to any holiday spread.
Christmas Tree Sandwiches
Mini Christmas Tree Sandwiches are the perfect finger food for a Christmas party or family gathering.
Quick prep, easy assembly, and totally customizable!
Eggnog French Toast Casserole
Eggnog French Toast Casserole will wow your guests at Christmas brunch!
Made with eggnog and rum flavoring and topped with a pecan and brown sugar crunch, everyone will rave about this breakfast.
Christmas Punch
Christmas Punch an easy and delicious holiday party drink packed with cranberries, oranges, and pomegranates.
Keep it non-alcoholic, or add some extra holiday spirit!
Easy Oven Frittata
This Easy Oven Frittata is simple to make with fresh, budget-friendly ingredients.
Eggs, bacon, a handful of veggies, and plenty of cheese make for a crowd-pleasing hearty breakfast or brunch.
Breakfast Charcuterie Board
A breakfast grazing board works so well for holiday brunches or busy mornings in December.
Cinnamon rolls, breakfast meats, eggs, fruit, jam, and any of your favorite breakfast foods, are all you need to put this together easy and quick.
Chicken and Waffle Sliders
Chicken and Waffle Sliders turns a classic southern comfort food into a bite-sized breakfast or brunch.
It’s a quick and easy-to-make breakfast slider with breaded chicken wings, waffle mix, bacon jam, and maple syrup.
Christmas Donut Hole Tree
A Christmas Donut Hole Tree is so easy to make!
Using your favorite storebought donut holes, it makes such a fun holiday dessert or brunch food.
Fig Salad With Rosemary Vinaigrette
This gorgeous Fig Salad with Rosemary Vinaigrette is easy to prepare and takes only minutes to assemble.
Fresh figs, sour mizythra cheese, and beet leaves dressed in rosemary balsamic vinaigrette make for a beautiful sweet and sour salad.
Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls
Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls are a deliciously sweet breakfast recipe that combines two favorites: canned cinnamon rolls and apple pie.
Soft cinnamon buns are topped off with a gooey homemade apple pie filling.
Breakfast Lasagna
Loaded with delicious breakfast sausage, fresh bell peppers, and melted cheese layered between lasagna noodles, Breakfast Lasagna is perfect for both kids and adults alike.
Homemade Christmas Tree Pop Tarts
Homemade Christmas Tree Pop-Tarts are a cute and colorful snack or holiday breakfast.
Forget storebought pastries and try these holiday themed hand pies instead!
Caramel Pecan Cinnamon Rolls
Caramel Pecan Cinnamon Rolls are sweet, sticky rolls drenched with gooey caramel and crunchy pecans.
They basically taste like your favorite holiday pie, but in breakfast form!
Mini Christmas Tree Veggie Pizzas
Mini Christmas Tree Veggie Pizzas have a Christmas tree shaped crust topped with hummus and a confetti of fresh vegetables.
The ideal healthy appetizer this holiday season!
Christmas Morning Scones
Easy-to-make Christmas Morning Scones captures the flavor and aroma of Christmas morning with vanilla bean, nutmeg, and rosemary.
They have a unique, festive flavor, are easy to make, and will become your family's new favorite holiday morning tradition.
Christmas Tree Salad
This festive, easy, Christmas Salad with a Cranberry Vinaigrette (made in a Mason jar) will be the talk of your holiday party.
Shape this salad like a Christmas tree and decorate it with "garland, ornaments, and snow" toppings.
Gingerbread Pancakes with Sugared Cranberries
Gingerbread Pancakes with gingerbread buttermilk syrup and sugared cranberries are sure to add some spice to your holiday season.
They are easy to prepare and full of flavor.
Easy Naan Breakfast Pizza
Easy Naan Breakfast Pizza, with a crispy crust, melted cheese, and a perfectly cooked sunny-side-up egg, will become a new breakfast favorite.
Quick and easy, these flatbread pizzas are ready to be topped with your favorite breakfast fixings for a delicious handheld breakfast treat.
Potatoes O'Brien
Pan fried Potatoes O’brien make such a great breakfast side dish!
Serve these easy breakfast potatoes alongside your favorite sweet or savory brunch dishes to complete the meal.
Cranberry Orange Bread with Fresh Orange Glaze
Cranberry Orange Bread is sweet and bursting with orange flavor, but also has a touch tart from the cranberries.
The festive look of the bright berries and the homemade orange glaze just takes it over the top.
Croissant Breakfast Bake
You’ll never go back to a traditional breakfast casserole after trying this Croissant Breakfast Bake.
It's loaded with fluffy croissants, eggs, ham and Gruyère cheese making it extra special for holiday brunch.
Easy Eggnog Pancakes
Easy eggnog pancakes, with the flavor of creamy, rich eggnog, are light and fluffy and are a fun twist on the traditional buttermilk pancakes.
They are quick and easy with very little prep and simple ingredients, getting breakfast to the table in no time.
Mini Mushroom Pies with Thyme
These flaky two-bite pies have a buttery crust and a savory mushroom filling that’s totally irresistible.
Cinnamon Crunch Braided Bread
Panera has nothing on this bread recipe! Soft, homemade bread makes up the base of this Cinnamon Crunch Braided Bread.
Homemade cinnamon chips fill the inside and it’s topped with a cinnamon crunch streusel.
French Onion Tartlets
You’ll want to add these delicious and adorable French Onion Tartlets to your holiday brunch menu, pronto.
Creamy, caramelized onions inside crispy, mini phyllo cups - what’s not to love?!
Christmas Tree Fruit Sugar Cookie
With a sugar cookie crust and topped with sweet frosting and a selection of colorful fresh fruit of your choice, this fruit pizza is sure to be a holiday hit for the whole family.
Chorizo Egg Muffins
Chorizo Egg Muffins are full of flavor, high in protein, and customizable to your favorite ingredients.
Best of all, they're ready in 30 minutes and can even be made ahead of time.
Smoked Salmon Appetizer Bites
Smoked Salmon Bites with Dill Sour Cream are elegant and flavorful and look lovely on a platter.
If you liked smoked salmon, this will be such a treat!
Peppermint Mocha Sweet Rolls
Get your favorite holiday coffee fix with this amazing chocolate breakfast roll!
Gooey Peppermint Mocha Sweet Rolls are stuffed with chocolate chips and peppermint baking chips.
Christmas Brunch Board
This Christmas Brunch charcuterie Board is so fun and can be created with store-bought or homemade items.
The possibilities are endless!
Ready to try some new Christmas brunch recipes?
I hope this list of simple Christmas brunch menu ideas has given you tons of inspiration for fun holiday breakfast recipes.
From sweet to savory, all of these dishes are sure to be a hit at your celebration!
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