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Danishes, donuts, sweet rolls, quiches, and MORE are found in this collection of our favorite breakfast pastries!
EVERYONE Loves Pastries!
If your family is anything like ours, a warm pastry in the morning can turn an ordinary day into something special! You’ll find flaky danishes and gooey cinnamon rolls to quick little crescent bites. All of these breakfast pastry recipes are perfect for holidays, weekends, or a fun surprise on a busy weekday
You’ll find a mix of from-scratch favorites and shortcut ideas using canned dough, so there’s truly something for every schedule and skill level. Many of these pastries can even be made ahead or frozen. Get ready to host the easiest brunch ever!
Grab a warm drink, scroll through, and pick a pastry (or two!) to try next.
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Top 10 Most Loved Breakfast Pastry Ideas
A sweet collection of my very favorite pastries that bake up flaky, buttery, and absolutely irresistible every single time.
1 Best Scone Recipe
Best Scone Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes
Filled with pops of juicy blueberries, this best scone recipe is flaky, buttery, and easy to make! They're perfect for breakfast and brunch.
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2 Homemade Donuts
Homemade Donuts
Total Time: 3 hours 50 minutes
Grandma's famous melt-in-your-mouth glazed homemade donuts are utterly addicting and absolutely worth the effort!!
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3 Easy Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Easy Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 52 minutes
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4 Cinnamon Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls Recipe
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 16 minutes
Delicious Glazed Cinnamon and Cream Cheese stuffed Crescent Rolls. Soft and gooey these crescent rolls are the perfect treat or breakfast recipe!
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5 Cream Puffs Recipe
Cream Puffs Recipe
Total Time: 55 minutes
This Cream Puff Recipe makes crisp shells with clouds of lightly sweetened cream, simple ingredients, bakery quality, ready for any celebration.
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6 Chocolate Eclair Recipe
Chocolate Eclair Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Homemade Eclairs filled with a creamy vanilla bean pastry cream and topped with a rich chocolate glaze.
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7 Cinnamon Twists Recipe
Cinnamon Twists Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes
Flaky cinnamon twists are buttery and sweet. They take only 15 min. to make, and will disappear in minutes!!
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8 Cherry Danish Recipe
Cherry Danish Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes
This easy Cherry Danish is made from puff pastry dough filled with a sweetened cream cheese mixture and topped with cherry pie filling.
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9 Pop Tart Recipe
Pop Tart Recipe
Total Time: 50 minutes
Delicious Homemade Pop Tarts are easier to make than you think and can be customized based off of your favorite fillings and frosting!
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10 Old Fashioned Donuts
Old Fashioned Donuts
Total Time: 33 minutes
Old fashioned donuts will melt in your mouth. These glazed buttermilk beauties are so easy to make and are better than store-bought!
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Sweet Rolls
Soft, gooey, and covered in frosting, these cinnamon and sweet rolls are the ultimate cozy-morning treat!
11 Orange Rolls Recipe
Orange Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours 35 minutes
These homemade orange rolls are soft, citrusy, and topped with a sweet orange cream cheese frosting everyone will love!
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12 Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
These homemade cinnamon rolls are an ALL-TIME favorite. These rolls always get rave reviews from anyone who tries them!
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13 Crescent Rolls
Crescent Rolls
Total Time: 2 hours 32 minutes
Flaky homemade crescent rolls are soft and tender. They are perfect for Sunday dinner or a holiday gathering!
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14 Mini Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Mini Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Give these 90 minute Mini Cinnamon Rolls a try and you'll fall in love with their tender, sweet centers and irresistible cream cheese frosting!
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15 Nutella Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Nutella Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes
Soft and delicious Nutella Cinnamon Rolls are made from crescent rolls filled with Nutella and topped with an amazing glaze.
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16 Maple Bacon Cinnamon Roll Recipe
Maple Bacon Cinnamon Roll Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Melt-in-your-mouth Maple Bacon Cinnamon Rolls are the yin and yang of salty and sweet, and are sinfully addicting!
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17 Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours 27 minutes
Soft and gooey Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls are topped with a delicious pumpkin spice glaze. This simple dessert has all the goods!
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Quick & Easy Pastries
Short on time? These shortcut pastries use canned dough or simple ingredients so you can get something yummy in the oven fast.
18 Biscuit Donuts Recipe
Biscuit Donuts Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes
These delicious Biscuit Donuts are beyond simple and made using canned biscuits!! If you're looking for the quickest and easiest ways to make donuts, this is it!
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19 Cinnamon Bites
Cinnamon Bites
Total Time: 30 minutes
Delicious cinnamon bites deliver all the gooey, sweet cinnamon flavor you crave in just 30 minutes, thanks to a canned biscuit shortcut!
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20 Cinnamon Cream Cheese Roll Ups Recipe
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Roll Ups Recipe
Total Time: 21 minutes
Delicious Cinnamon Cream Cheese Roll-Ups – a simple and yummy breakfast treat. White bread flattened and rolled with a cream cheese and powdered sugar mixture, dipped in butter, cinnamon, and sugar!
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21 Apple Fritters
Apple Fritters
Total Time: 30 minutes
Crispy apple fritters with tender apple chunks and a cinnamon-sugar coating are a quick, cozy fall treat ready in just 30 minutes!
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22 Pumpkin Fritters Recipe
Pumpkin Fritters Recipe
Total Time: 26 minutes
Transform premade biscuit dough into glazed baked pumpkin fritters made in under 30 minutes making it an easy fall treat!
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More Breakfast Pastries
Wake up to bakery-style flavors at home with these breakfast pastry recipes perfect for any occasion!
23 Danish Kringle Recipe
Danish Kringle Recipe
Total Time: 9 hours 30 minutes
This cream cheese pecan Danish Kringle is sweet and flaky pastry- perfect for weekend brunch or a holiday celebration.
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24 Cranberry Orange Scones Recipe
Cranberry Orange Scones Recipe
Total Time: 43 minutes
Soft and tender cranberry orange scones are inviting and flavorful. They are topped with a delightful orange glaze.
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25 Disney Beignets
Disney Beignets
Total Time: 2 hours
Disney beignets are just like the ones found at Disneyland, shaped like Mickey and served with a vanilla cream anglaise.
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26 Pumpkin Beignet Recipe
Pumpkin Beignet Recipe
Pumpkin beignets are pillowy, sugary New Orleans-style fried Dough with a fall flavor. You can enjoy these soft donuts right at home sprinkled with powder sugar or dipped in sauce
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27 Apple Crescent Dumplings Recipe
Apple Crescent Dumplings Recipe
Total Time: 38 minutes
Flaky butter crusted apple crescent dumplings are spiced to perfection. They are warm, cozy, and melt-in-your-mouth tasty!
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28 Lemon Blueberry Scones Recipe
Lemon Blueberry Scones Recipe
Total Time: 48 minutes
Bursting with juicy blueberries, these easy-to-make lemon blueberry scones are drizzled with a tangy lemon glaze, for a perfect bite!
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25+ Breakfast Pastry Ideas
Danishes, donuts, sweet rolls, quiches, and MORE are found in this collection of our favorite breakfast pastries!
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Ingredients
Dough
- 1 cup warm water (110-115°F)
- ¾ cup buttermilk, room temperature
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- ½ cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons rapid rise yeast
- 2 large eggs
- ½ tablespoon salt
- 5½ cups bread flour
Filling
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- ⅔ cup packed light brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
Frosting
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 3-4 tablespoons milk (or half-and-half), as needed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer or large bowl, mix water, buttermilk, melted butter, sugar, and yeast. Allow to sit for 15 minutes.
- Add eggs and salt, then mix in flour one cup at a time. Once all flour has been added, mix for an additional 5 minutes, then allow to rest for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare your filling. Mix granulated sugar, brown sugar, melted butter, and cinnamon together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease a large baking dish or jelly roll pan (we prefer an 11×15 pan).
- Lightly grease hands, and grab dough out of mixing bowl and place on a lightly floured surface. Roll dough ball in the flour and roll out into a 12×18 inch rectangle. Spread filling over the surface of the dough, leaving a 1/2 inch border all around. Roll the dough into a log starting at the long edge, making sure the seam is on the bottom. NOTE: Lift and tuck tightly as you roll.
- Use a long piece of unflavored dental floss or sewing thread to cut the roll into 12 large rolls or 18 smaller rolls. Gently place the floss under the spot you wish to cut, then bring the floss up, cross it over the top, and pull the ends so it slices right through the dough.
- Place rolls cut side up in the prepared pan. Bake for 17–20 minutes.
- While the rolls are baking, mix all frosting ingredients in a large bowl, starting with 3 tablespoons of milk and adding more as needed to reach a spreadable consistency.
- When rolls come out of the oven, immediately spread a layer of frosting on warm rolls. Add another layer of frosting once cooled.
Notes
Recipe Tips.
- Be sure the milk isn’t too hot, otherwise it harms the yeast. For more tips, see How to Activate Yeast
- Start by adding the lower end of the flour range; the dough should be soft and slightly sticky. Add only as needed for easy handling.
- Sprinkle raisins or chopped nuts, like walnuts or pecans, over the filling before you roll the dough.
- Slice with unflavored dental floss; it keeps the spirals neat and helps the rolls rise evenly in the pan.
- To make bread flour: Add 1½ teaspoons of vital wheat gluten to a 1-cup measuring cup, then fill the cup the rest of the way up with all-purpose flour and sift.
Nutrition
Serving: 1roll, Calories: 609kcal, Carbohydrates: 106g, Protein: 10g, Fat: 17g, Saturated Fat: 10g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 4g, Trans Fat: 0.5g, Cholesterol: 69mg, Sodium: 357mg, Potassium: 145mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 62g, Vitamin A: 554IU, Vitamin C: 0.1mg, Calcium: 79mg, Iron: 1mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Kristyn,
You have completed an amazing pathway with your recipes.
Have followed you for many years.
When I was on Facebook. I had shared with you how I made some of your recipes
with a different twist.
Have been proud of your growth with your career and raising your children.
Also sharing your Mom’s recipes.
You truly are natural for the beginner to more experienced cook, don’t like cook.
We are women & men know how to add a special touch to recipes.
Awe, that is so nice of you to say! I appreciate you sticking around & trying my recipes! Really! Thank you so much!
I made the cherry danish recipe and was so happy with how they turned out. It was next best thing to a bakery danish. I’ll be making them again with different fillings.
We make breakfast for dinner all the time. The more ideas the better! Thank you!
We absolutely love pastries for weekend breakfast! This collection is making me hungry. So many delicious recipes to try!
Oh, my goodness, do I have to pick just one?? Ha! I want to make them all. We started working our way through the list with the danish. Delish!
What an awesome list, and the pastry recipe here is my favorite!! So good, thank you!
You’re welcome!