Here’s a collection of the very BEST breakfast recipes! From easy muffins, pancakes, French toast, waffles – this list has it all! Your family will LOVE one of these recipes at your next Sunday brunch.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins are tangy, slightly crisp on the outside and ultra moist inside. Topped with a simple sweet lemony glaze. Quick, easy, and delish!
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!
This Ultimate Muffin recipe is THE master muffin base that is perfectly flavorful, tender, and moist. The flavor and add-in options are limitless! Download my free Ultimate Muffin Guide here!
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.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!
Gooey Cinnamon Rolls are ultra soft and tender, loaded with ooey gooey buttery cinnamon filling, and flooded with vanilla icing. Better than Cinnabon and can be made the night before!
Gooey Chocolate Rolls are what happens when you take fluffy cinnamon buns and fill them with an ooey chocolate filling then top them with a rich cocoa icing. Absolute chocolate decadence!
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.
Cranberry Orange Scones are flaky and buttery with tangy buttermilk, dried cranberries, orange zest, and a simple orange icing. Freezer friendly recipe!
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!
How to Make PERECT Buttermilk Biscuits that are tall, flaky, and tender. Just 30 minutes to homemade biscuits your family & friends will love! Download my free biscuit guide here.
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!
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 won't need another recipe.
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 to make French toast for a special occasion!
Strawberry Banana Bread featured strawberry studded banana bread topped with sweet buttercream and fresh strawberries. It's as delicious as it is pretty!
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!
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.
Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnuts are coated in glaze and taste just like the cakey ones at your favorite bakery! No yeast makes this recipe quicker and easier.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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*
I share trusted baking recipes your friends will LOVE alongside insights into the science of sweets. I'm a professionally trained chef, cookbook author, and cookie queen. I love to write about all things sweet, carb-y, and homemade. I live in Phoenix, Arizona (hence the blog name!)
About Tessa...
I share trusted baking recipes your friends will LOVE alongside insights into the science of sweets. I'm a professionally trained chef, cookbook author, and cookie queen. I love to write about all things sweet, carb-y, and homemade. I live in Phoenix, Arizona (hence the blog name!)
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.
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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!! 🙂