Whether you’re hosting a formal brunch or having a casual brunch with your ladies, any of these brunch ideas is sure to be a hit!
We Love Brunch!
Breakfast + Lunch = Brunch.
Brunch is generally served at about 10 am and can consist of breakfast and/or lunch items! For a wider spread, you could even include some of both. What’s not to love?! We especially love serving a brunch spread for special occasions and holidays.
Hosting brunch may seem a bit daunting, especially if you’ve opted to make it all yourself as opposed to potluck style. We’ve rounded up plenty of our best brunch ideas to make it a breeze! Because it’s a mix of breakfast and lunch, we’ve included a variety of flavor profiles to make every spread perfect.
Several brunch recipes can be made ahead of time, even the day before! Make your morning smooth and those bellies happy. Enjoy, and get your brunch on! 😉
Our Top 10 Brunch Ideas
1 French Toast Casserole Recipe
French Toast Casserole Recipe
Total Time: 5 hours hours
This best-loved French toast casserole is perfect for making ahead of time! It's eggy with a hint of cinnamon.
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2 Breakfast Casserole
Breakfast Casserole
Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
This easy breakfast casserole is loaded with biscuits, eggs, and sausage for a hearty, crowd-pleasing meal—ready in just 30 minutes!
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3 Pancake Recipe
Pancake Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
For delicious homemade pancakes, this easy pancake recipe is the perfect base for your favorite toppings and variations!
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4 Swedish Pancakes
Swedish Pancakes
Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
Handed down for generations, this homemade Swedish pancakes recipe is the softest, and most delicious. Add a sweet or savory filling!
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5 Best Quiche Recipe
Best Quiche Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour hour
This is the best quiche recipe—quick to prep, easy to customize, and perfect for a savory breakfast or brunch!
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6 Coffee Cake Recipe
Coffee Cake Recipe
Total Time: 55 minutes minutes
With a quick prep, this crowd-favorite homemade coffee cake recipe is a delicious go-to for any breakfast, brunch, or celebration!
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7 Easy Cinnamon Roll Recipe
Easy Cinnamon Roll Recipe
Total Time: 52 minutes minutes
This easy cinnamon roll recipe is smothered with homemade cream cheese frosting and best of all, ready in only ONE hour!
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8 Strata Recipe
Strata Recipe
Total Time: 4 hours hours 55 minutes minutes
This layered strata recipe preps in 10 minutes then chills overnight for a no-fuss brunch, holiday, or yummy family breakfast!!
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9 Sausage Breakfast Casserole
Sausage Breakfast Casserole
Total Time: 22 minutes minutes
This savory sausage breakfast casserole is flaky, filling, and delicious! It's also ready in under 30 minutes!!
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10 Cinnamon Roll Cake
Cinnamon Roll Cake
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
Cinnamon roll cake is a favorite breakfast treat in cake form. With a quick prep and cook time it's on the table in only 40 minutes!
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More Brunch Recipes
11 Pound Cake French Toast Recipe
Pound Cake French Toast Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
Have you tried making French toast out of pound cake? If not, you need to! It's thick, delicious and an easy breakfast for weekends and holidays!
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12 Fluffy Pancakes
Fluffy Pancakes
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Waking up to a big stack of fluffy pancakes is THE BEST! This recipe is foolproof for the best pancakes in the world!
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13 French Toast Muffins Recipe
French Toast Muffins Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
French Toast Muffins are easy to make, using simple pantry staples. Prep in minutes and bake until golden crispy for a tasty breakfast!
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14 Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole
Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
With only 3 ingredients and minutes to prep, this sausage cream cheese casserole is a savory favorite for feeding a crowd effortlessly!
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15 German Pancakes Recipe
German Pancakes Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Light, fluffy, eggy German pancakes are a family favorite. They're EASY to make, and use 5 simple ingredients!
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16 Chocolate Waffle Recipe
Chocolate Waffle Recipe
Total Time: 10 minutes minutes
Fresh-made Chocolate Waffles are decadent, delicious and whip up in minutes!! They are the perfect start to your day, or a sweet dessert.
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17 Sheet Pan Pancakes Recipe
Sheet Pan Pancakes Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
These simple sheet pan pancakes are quick, easy, and perfect for feeding a crowd. Just add your favorite toppings and enjoy!
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18 Buttermilk Waffles
Buttermilk Waffles
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
There's nothing better than big, fluffy buttermilk waffles first thing in the morning! This will be your new favorite breakfast recipe!!
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19 Lemon Poppy Seed Pancake Recipe
Lemon Poppy Seed Pancake Recipe
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
Lemon Poppy Seed Pancakes are light & refreshing with the perfect hint of lemon! They're the best way to add some fruity flare to your morning.
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20 White Chocolate Berry Pancakes Recipe
White Chocolate Berry Pancakes Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
White Chocolate Berry Pancakes are served with homemade berry syrup, fresh berries, and white chocolate on top. They're AMAZING!
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21 Creme Brulee French Toast Recipe
Creme Brulee French Toast Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
Creme Brulee French Toast – delicious overnight French Toast recipe that has a tasty caramel coating on one side!
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22 French Toast Casserole with Cream Cheese
French Toast Casserole with Cream Cheese
Total Time: 5 hours hours
This make-ahead French toast casserole with cream cheese is stuffed with sweet cream cheese and topped with a sweet brown sugar crumble.
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23 Cinnamon Cream Cheese Roll Ups Recipe
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Roll Ups Recipe
Total Time: 21 minutes 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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24 Cinnamon Bites
Cinnamon Bites
Total Time: 30 minutes 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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25 Poffertjes
Poffertjes
Total Time: 20 minutes minutes
Poffertjes are tiny, fluffy pancakes, sweet enough for breakfast or dessert and a must-try for pancake lovers!
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26 Omelette Recipe
Omelette Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
A simple yet delicious Omelette is a hearty and filling egg recipe, perfect for breakfast, and completely customizable.
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27 Belgian Waffles Recipe
Belgian Waffles Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
Crisp, fluffy Belgian waffles are an easy way to start your day with a smile. They will be your go-to homemade waffles – I promise!
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28 Cinnamon Twists Recipe
Cinnamon Twists Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
Flaky cinnamon twists are buttery and sweet. They take only 15 min. to make, and will disappear in minutes!!
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29 Chocolate Chip Pancakes Recipe
Chocolate Chip Pancakes Recipe
Total Time: 10 minutes minutes
Deliciously fluffy chocolate chip pancakes are perfect for even the biggest kid. Whip them up for breakfast or dessert!
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30 Baked Eggs
Baked Eggs
Total Time: 1 hour hour
Baked eggs are your new breakfast best friend! It takes only minutes to whip up, and it comes out perfectly cheesy and fluffy every time.
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31 Sausage Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls Recipe
Sausage Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 18 minutes minutes
This simple 3-ingredient appetizer is great for parties and get togethers and is so full of flavor! Everyone will love these Sausage Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls.
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32 Puff Pastry Sausage Rolls
Puff Pastry Sausage Rolls
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Savory puff pastry sausage rolls are deliciously addicting and ready in under 30 minutes. They make a tasty breakfast or appetizer!
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33 Cheesy Breakfast Pie Recipe
Cheesy Breakfast Pie Recipe
Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
Easy and delicious Cheesy breakfast pie filled with bacon, eggs and hashbrowns.
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34 Breakfast Ring Recipe
Breakfast Ring Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
Cheesy Breakfast Ring – delicious cheesy, bacon and pepper-filled eggs inside a ring of delicious crescent roll dough. Its our new favorite breakfast recipe!
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35 Breakfast Charcuterie Board Ideas
Breakfast Charcuterie Board Ideas
Total Time: 15 minutes minutes
A Breakfast Charcuterie Board is the perfect way to start the day. With a little something for everyone, it's sure to be a hit!
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36 Crescent Roll Breakfast Casserole
Crescent Roll Breakfast Casserole
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
This hearty crescent roll breakfast casserole is savory and cheesy, easy to assemble, and bakes in under 30 minutes!
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37 Blueberry French Toast Casserole
Blueberry French Toast Casserole
Overnight blueberry french toast casserole preps in 10 minutes for an indulgent, hot, and no-fuss breakfast – perfect for holidays!
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38 Eggs Benedict Casserole Recipe
Eggs Benedict Casserole Recipe
Total Time: 55 minutes minutes
Eggs Benedict Casserole – the perfect breakfast dish made with English muffins, Canadian bacon, eggs and It’s delicious!!
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39 Oven French Toast Recipe
Oven French Toast Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours hours
Sweet & filling oven French toast is perfectly spiced and can feed a crowd! This golden-baked goodness is a family favorite.
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40 Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole
Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole
Total Time: 6 hours hours 50 minutes minutes
Quick prep cinnamon roll French toast casserole has all of the goodness of warm cinnamon rolls, with the ease of an overnight casserole.
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41 Cherry Danish Recipe
Cherry Danish Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes 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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42 Blueberry Muffins Recipe
Blueberry Muffins Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour hour 5 minutes minutes
These delicious homemade blueberry muffins are simple and perfect for breakfast, a snack, or after-school treats. Plus – they're easy!!
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43 Chocolate Chocolate Muffin Recipe
Chocolate Chocolate Muffin Recipe
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
These homemade double chocolate muffins are rich, moist, and loaded with melty chocolate in every bite!
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44 Frittata Recipe
Frittata Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Fluffy frittata stuffed with asparagus, ham, and parmesan cheese. It's a breakfast dream—so simple and delicious!
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45 Asparagus Quiche Recipe
Asparagus Quiche Recipe
Total Time: 50 minutes minutes
This simple asparagus quiche is loaded up with eggs, asparagus, and cheese. It's terrific for a brunch spread or weeknight meal.
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46 Chocolate Chip Muffins
Chocolate Chip Muffins
Total Time: 21 minutes minutes
Soft and airy chocolate chip muffins are studded with milk chocolate chips for a great on-the-go breakfast, treat, or snack!
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47 Spinach Quiche Recipe
Spinach Quiche Recipe
Hot and cheesy spinach quiche with a buttery crust is the perfect start to your morning. This is a wonderful breakfast dish for any sized crowd. Everyone will love it!
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48 Orange Rolls Recipe
Orange Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours hours 35 minutes minutes
These homemade orange rolls are soft, citrusy, and topped with a sweet orange cream cheese frosting everyone will love!
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49 Broccoli Quiche Recipe
Broccoli Quiche Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour hour
This cheesy broccoli quiche is savory, filling, and flavorful for a quick and easy semi-homemade breakfast or brunch idea!
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50 Almond Poppyseed Muffins Recipe
Almond Poppyseed Muffins Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
Topped with a light lemon glaze, Almond Poppyseed Muffins are tender, sweet, and perfect for snacking. They are practically a dessert!
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51 Donut Muffin Recipe
Donut Muffin Recipe
Total Time: 32 minutes minutes
These muffins taste just like a donut, with just the right hint of nutmeg and cinnamon, and are topped with the most delicious glaze!
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52 Best Scone Recipe
Best Scone Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes 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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53 Monkey Bread Muffins Recipe
Monkey Bread Muffins Recipe
Total Time: 19 minutes minutes
If you like monkey bread, you'll LOVE these Monkey Bread Muffins! They're a cinch to put together and are ready to eat in under 20 minutes.
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54 Apple Fritters
Apple Fritters
Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
Apple fritters are crispy, golden-brown delights, studded with tender apple slices and coated in a sprinkling of cinnamon and sugar.
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55 Beignet Recipe
Beignet Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes
A classic beignet recipe is pillowy, New Orleans-style fried dough. Enjoy these sprinkled with powdered sugar or dipped in a sauce!
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56 Mini Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Mini Cinnamon Rolls Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes 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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57 Homemade Donuts
Homemade Donuts
Total Time: 3 hours hours 50 minutes minutes
Grandma's famous melt-in-your-mouth glazed homemade donuts are utterly addicting and absolutely worth the effort!!
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58 Old Fashioned Donuts
Old Fashioned Donuts
Total Time: 33 minutes 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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59 Biscuit Donuts Recipe
Biscuit Donuts Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes 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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60 Coffee Cake Muffins Recipe
Coffee Cake Muffins Recipe
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
Tender & sweet glazed coffee cake muffins filled with a brown sugar streusel are the perfect breakfast treat!!
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61 Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
Total Time: 45 minutes minutes
Moist and fluffy sour cream coffee cake is filled with layers of crunchy sweet pecans. It is a tasty breakfast or dessert!
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62 Bisquick Coffee Cake
Bisquick Coffee Cake
Total Time: 45 minutes minutes
Simple cinnamon and sugar Bisquick coffee cake uses a handful of ingredients and comes together quickly in a pinch.
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Thank you for these wonderful brunch menu ideas! Can’t wait to try them all! We tried and enjoyed the Mozarella pasta salad!
I love brunch!! This collection of brunch recipes is so awesome. I love the crepes and the omelet for sure! Can’t wait to try more of these yummy brunch ideas.
My mouth is watering looking at all these tasty brunch recipes! I’m pinning the eggs benedict casserole to make for Easter. Looks amazing!
Oh that’s one of our favs! Hope you enjoy!
My kids love your cinnamon roll cake. It’s easy to make and lasts for a couple days. I also recently tried the cherry danish. They were super easy to make using frozen puff pastry.
I can’t wait to try more recipes from your list.
Brunch has to be my FAVORITE meal! And these recipes are so perfect for brunch! My favorite are the Hash Brown Egg Cups!
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing brunch recipes! Will surely have this again! It’s really easy to make and it tasted so delicious! Highly recommended!
I love Brunch! There’s such a variety of things that can be made and served during this time of day. Check out all the recipes.
Yum! Love brunch! I have tried several of these recipes & they never disappoint! We love your cinnamon rolls & breakfast casseroles!