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I’m so excited to share all my favorite easy breakfast recipes with you today.
I dedicate today’s post to the Queen of Breakfast herself… Ms. Leslie Knope.
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. What about you?
I’ve organized all my breakfast recipes by category to make it super simple for you to pick a new family favorite.
Whether you’re looking for an easy, meal-prep-friendly recipe (hello muffins!) or a more indulgent breakfast treat like cinnamon rolls, all the breakfast goodness you could ever imagine is below.
And if you want even more breakfast deliciousness? Check out ALL my breakfast recipes HERE.
Breakfast Muffin Recipes
These easy muffin recipes are super simple to whip up. Check out my *free* Ultimate Muffin Cheatsheet for my customizable base muffin recipe and lots more muffin baking tips!
Easy Bakery Style Banana Muffins
Mile-high moist and flavorful banana muffins are sure to become your new favorite recipe. Be sure to use very ripe bananas that are deeply spotted and almost black for moist and flavorful muffins. Add in nuts or chocolate chips, or leave plain!
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Chocolate Chip Muffins
The BEST Chocolate Chip Muffins are moist and tender with buttery slightly crispy edges and tons of gooey chocolate chips throughout. Download my free Ultimate Muffin Guide here!
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Brown Butter Blueberry Muffins
Brown Butter Blueberry Muffins are crazy moist, tender, fluffy, and flavorful. Topped with a cinnamon streusel crumb topping for the best muffin top ever! Everyone will think they’re from a bakery! Perfect breakfast or sweet snack.
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Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins are tangy, slightly crisp on the outside, and ultra moist inside. Topped with a simple, sweet lemony glaze. Quick, super easy, and so delicious! 25-minute recipe, no mixer required.
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Chocolate Coffee Toffee Crunch Muffins
Chocolate Coffee Toffee Crunch Muffins feature a mocha muffin base that’s studded with chocolate chips and topped with a crunchy toffee streusel for the best combination of flavor and texture!
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Ultimate Muffins
This Ultimate Muffin recipe is THE master muffin base that is perfectly flavorful, tender, and moist. The flavor and add-in options are limitless!
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Double Chocolate Muffins
Moist and tender Double Chocolate Muffins feature a brown sugar cocoa muffin studded with gooey chocolate chunks for the ultimate easy treat!
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French Toast Recipes
The absolute best French Toast recipes you’ll ever make. I’ve included my classic everyday French Toast recipe as well as a few fun variations to mix it up.
French Toast
How to make French Toast that's slightly crisp at the edges, fluffy in the center, and buttery throughout. Tons of tips for the BEST French toast recipe you'll ever have!
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Bananas Foster French Toast
Bananas Foster French Toast features a caramelized brown sugar banana topping and a rich Challah French toast. The perfect start to any morning!
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Lemon Blueberry French Toast Casserole
Lemon Blueberry French Toast Casserole can be made overnight and tastes like a combination of bread pudding and gourmet French toast. It’s perfect for Mother’s Day!
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Churro French Toast
Possibly the BEST French Toast ever! Churro French toast equals thick slices of rich Challah soaked in an egg mixture and fried to perfection. THEN coated in cinnamon sugar and drizzled with cream cheese icing. Keep reading for my best French Toast tips and the full recipe!
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Easy Pancake Recipes
Say hello to the fluffy, buttery, and perfectly crispy pancakes of your dreams. Start with my Best Ever Pancakes, then try out the other amazing pancake flavors!
Best Pancake Recipe
The ONLY pancake recipe you’ll ever need! These buttermilk pancakes are fluffy in the center, crispy and buttery at the edges, and so easy to make. The whole family will love them!
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Chocolate Chip Pancakes
These homemade Chocolate Chip Pancakes are light and fluffy, crispy at the edges, and loaded with gooey chocolate chips. This recipe is so simple to make and is sure to be a hit with your family at breakfast time!
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Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes
These tasty Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes are soft and fluffy with bites of poppy seeds throughout. They will soon become your family’s favorite breakfast!
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Homemade Waffle Recipes
And in the morning, I’m making WAFFLES. I share tons of my secret tips for perfect waffles in the pink tip box above my Best Homemade Waffle recipe. Even Leslie Knope would approve of these waffle recipes.
The Best Homemade Waffles
The Best Homemade Waffle Recipe is super easy with perfectly crispy edges and custardy fluffy interiors.
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Belgian Liege Waffles
How to Make Belgian Liege Waffles – the BEST waffles ever! Includes a step-by-step video and tons of recipe tips so your waffles turn out perfect. Top them with fruit, Nutella, and whipped cream or ice cream for a truly outrageous breakfast or dessert!
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Chocolate Fudge Waffles
Fudge Waffles are the ultimate dessert for breakfast loaded with rich chocolate flavor and topped with ice cream and fudge chocolate sauce! You’re going to LOVE these!
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Cinnamon Rolls
What’s Christmas morning without cinnamon rolls?! Here are my all-time favorite cinnamon roll recipes… but you’ll want to make these year round.
Gooey Cinnamon Rolls
Gooey Cinnamon Rolls are pillowy-soft and tender, loaded with gooey buttery cinnamon filling, and flooded with vanilla icing on top. These are so much better than Cinnabon – and bonus: they can be made ahead of time!
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Gooey Chocolate Rolls
Gooey Chocolate Rolls are what happens when you take fluffy cinnamon buns, fill them with a gooey chocolate filling, and top them with a rich cocoa icing. Absolute chocolate decadence!
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Biscuits & Scones
Scone Recipes
No dense or dry scones here! These easy scone recipes are ultra tender, flaky, and light.
Classic Scones
How to Make Perfect Scones better than your favorite coffee shop in just 35 minutes! Easy scone recipe that is ultra buttery, flaky, and flavorful. Make-ahead instructions and tons of baking tips below.
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Cranberry Orange Scones
Cranberry Orange Scones are flaky and buttery with tangy buttermilk, dried cranberries, orange zest, and a simple orange icing. Easy to make, and can be made ahead of time!
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Pumpkin Scones
Begin your mornings this fall with these easy Pumpkin Scones topped with a simple homemade pumpkin glaze. Perfect with a cup of coffee!
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Blueberry Scones
These Blueberry Scones are sure to be a hit at your next brunch gathering! They're extremely tender, moist, flaky, light, and full of fresh summer flavors. Topped with an easy lemon blueberry glaze. Plus, they take less than 40 minutes from start to finish!
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Easy Biscuit Recipes
Spread your favorite jam or homemade gravy over my Buttermilk Biscuits, or enjoy my perfectly indulgent Cheddar Biscuits.
Perfect Buttermilk Biscuits
How to Make PERECT Buttermilk Biscuits that are tall, flaky, and tender. Just 30 minutes to homemade biscuits your family & friends will love!
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Easy Cheddar Biscuits
Easy Cheddar Biscuits are extra flaky and cheesy with a soft fluffy interior. They take just 30 minutes to make with simple ingredients and equipment but yield amazing results!
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Breakfast Bread and Loaf Recipes
You’ll go bananas for these delicious homemade breakfast breads.
Banana Bread
This is the best ever EASY banana bread recipe with a super MOIST and tender texture and tons of sweet banana flavor. Everyone loves it! You'll never need another recipe.
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Cinnamon Swirl Bread
Homemade yeast-raised Cinnamon Swirl Bread features soft and fluffy bread with thick swirls of sweet cinnamon. Each slice makes for the most amazing morning toast, or better yet, use it to make French toast for a special occasion!
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Strawberry Banana Bread
Strawberry Banana Bread featured strawberry studded banana bread topped with sweet buttercream and fresh strawberries. It’s as delicious as it is pretty!
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Lemon Loaf Pound Cake
Ultra buttery and bursting with fresh lemon flavor, this Lemon Loaf Pound Cake is a spring favorite! The batter takes just minutes to make and will win the heart of any Starbucks lover!
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Lemon Yogurt Zucchini Bread
Lemon Yogurt Zucchini Bread is the perfect summer treat! Ultra moist and loaded with bright lemon flavors, everyone will be asking for this recipe.
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Doughnut Recipes
And of course we can’t forget… homemade doughnuts! One of my favorite breakfast treats and easier to make than you might think. Get my *free* Top 5 Doughnut Glazes here.
Fried Doughnuts
Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnuts
Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnuts are coated in glaze and taste just like the cake doughnuts at your favorite bakery! No yeast makes this recipe quicker and easier.
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Chocolate Old Fashioned Doughnuts
These doughnuts are crazy good! Cakey fried Chocolate Old Fashioned Doughnuts with sour cream, a thick luscious glaze, and no yeast! Easier than you think!
Homemade Chinese Doughnuts
This Homemade Chinese Doughnut recipe is reminiscent of the ones you get from the Chinese buffet dessert table but made from scratch in less than 1 hour.
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Pumpkin Old Fashioned Doughnuts
Pumpkin Old Fashioned Doughnuts are fried to perfection and loaded with pumpkin spice flavors and a thick shiny pumpkin glaze. No yeast required!
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Baked Doughnuts
Cheesecake Stuffed Baked Doughnuts
Cheesecake Stuffed Baked Doughnuts feature a fluffy yeast-raised baked doughnut coated in cinnamon sugar, stuffed with sweetened cream cheese, and topped with a dollop of raspberry jam.
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Baked Strawberry Lemon Doughnuts
Baked Strawberry Lemon Doughnuts are made with a yeasted dough but baked for the best fluffy texture without frying! Topped with a beautiful naturally colored strawberry glaze.
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Champagne Doughnuts
Baked Champagne Doughnuts are ultra light and fluffy. Made with champagne in the dough AND in the icing, these are perfect for any New Year’s celebration.
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Baked Apple Pie Doughnuts
Baked Apple Pie Doughnuts are made with yeast-raised dough that bakes up just as light and fluffy as fried doughnuts but without the mess! Tasty fall treat.
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Peanut Butter Cup Baked Doughnuts
Peanut Butter Cup Baked Doughnuts featured a yeast risen fluffy baked doughnut base filled with peanut butter cream cheese and coated with chocolate glaze. Every bite is pure chocolate peanut butter HEAVEN! *No frying involved*
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So, which breakfast recipe are you going to try first?!
Comment below!
I’m salivating just looking at all the recipes! Will try the Churro French Toast, it looks like the perfect combination. Saving the pumpkin scone recipe as well, the fall season is pretty near.
Can’t wait to hear what you think of those recipes!! 🙂