What to Make for Christmas Morning?

[chefshawna]

Wow!!! You all have some hefty morning breakfasts going on! I hadn't even thought about breakfast until now! Now I want to make everything!! Since my inlaws are here, we'll probably just do something really easy. Maybe I'll go pick up some crescent rolls and some fruit.

 

[kcjodih]

A tradition from my family is Fried Dough on Christmas morning! My mom makes the dough from scratch but I just take bread dough and let it rise overnight. Then I take pieces about the size of a jelly stick donut and drop them in some hot oil!! Then we either shake them in a bag of sugar or put melted butter with honey or powdered sugar!! YUM!!! And COFFEE of course!!!

This sounds sinful but oh so delish! Do you just use store bought bread dough or do you make your own? Homemade bread dough intimidates me so I'm hoping you say store bought

 

[candiejayne]

Our tradition is the Rhodes (at least that's the brand here) frozen cinnamon rolls. I put them in the pan before I finally go to bed on Christmas Eve (we have both sides of the family over here every Christmas Eve). Then while DS goes through his stocking and Santa loot I pop them in the oven for 20 minutes. Makes for a peaceful RELAXING morning for Mom! I about fell out of my chair at Sunday School last week when we were talking about traditions etc. and my DH who is very quiet and hardly ever speaks up in groups said that the coffee and cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning was one of his favorite traditions!!

We go over to MIL's late morning to do the whole Santa thing again (he comes to Grandma's house too!) and then eat WAYYYYYYY too much lunch!

Rhodes is the brand my mom uses. I just made 2 bags of the regular dinner rolls from them. the house smells of freshly baked bread! I love them!

 

[Nanisu]

I do something different every year, kind of a surprise. This year I am doing the Green Chile Frittata, have everything done up the night before except the eggs, toss it all together in the pan, pop it in the oven, wake the kids (my kids are 20 and 23, we have to roll them out of bed, LOL), and open presents while it is baking. Yummy.

 

[raebates]

Rae, if you don't use craisins, do you use dried or fresh cranberrys? I have a huge bag of fresh in the freezer...

The recipe actually calls for fresh cranberries. (Thawed work fine.)

 

[raebates]

this sounds really good Rae!

Thanks. It's an adaptation of a recipe I found in Hallmark Magazine. The original recipe used homemade pastry. I'm waaaaay too lazy for that. LOL!

 

[babywings76]

This sounds sinful but oh so delish! Do you just use store bought bread dough or do you make your own? Homemade bread dough intimidates me so I'm hoping you say store bought

When I lived in Utah for college, I was introduced to scones. I think some people call it Navajo bread (?) My roommates would just use Rhodes bread dough cut in pieces, or rolls, and deep fry it. Serve it with honey butter or cinnamon butter. Really good. Of course I'm not an expert on it or anything, but I thought it was really good.

 

[pamperedlinda]

I do something different every year, kind of a surprise. This year I am doing the Green Chile Frittata, have everything done up the night before except the eggs, toss it all together in the pan, pop it in the oven, wake the kids (my kids are 20 and 23, we have to roll them out of bed, LOL), and open presents while it is baking. Yummy.

mmmmm! I love the green chili frittata - a very good choice. DH will be gone for Christmas so it's just me and DS - he doesn't appreciate good breakfast food, so not sure what I'm having tomorrow morning. DH is making a big breakfast right now so I guess that will have to suffice for my Christmas breakfast

 

[WLMcCoy]

We do frozen cinnamon rolls, too..

 

[lockhartkitchen]

My mom buys the frozen cinnamon rolls, they come in a bag, she puts them on sheet pans and in the fridge the night before, they raise in there over night, then in the morning she just pops them in the oven! We go over there every year for breakfast, its easy and yummy!

Usually it's PC cinnamon rolls made with the pizza dough. Yum. My order is with a show that I won't get before Christmas, so I bought Roades frozen dough. They will do. My kids love cinnamon rolls on Christmas.