Rise & Shine Breakfast Breads
Baked Chocolate-Peanut Butter Doughnuts [1]
These no-fry doughnuts are super chocolatey--a perfect match for your morning joe. For a twist, you can swap chocolate-hazelnut spread for the peanut butter in the glaze and top with finely chopped toasted hazelnuts.
Baklava Monkey Bread [5]
This clever mash-up of the classic Mediterranean phyllo pastry and an ooey-gooey Midwest potluck favorite has a lot of steps and ingredients, but you can start it a day ahead. It's a sticky, worth-the-trouble showstopper.
Citrus-Fig Sweet Rolls [9]
These make-ahead rolls swap the usual cinnamon filling for a citrusy fig paste. Just like the center of Fig Newton cookies, they're full of deliciously crunchy seeds.
Caramel-Banana Muffins [13]
Sugar-topped banana slices caramelize as they bake on top of these tender, cakey breakfast muffins. Serve warm drizzled with extra caramel topping, if you like.
Pick-a-Flavor Scones [17]
Choose the base recipe for Sour Cream Scones, or try a flavor variation. Then adapt the recipe to your schedule. Imagine having ready-to-bake scones in the freezer. Pull out a few for brunch with friends, or just one for a solo Sunday afternoon treat.
Pick-a-Flavor Scones [18]
Cookie Butter and Banana French Toast [21]
Take Elvis' iconic PB and banana sandwich, but swap in cookie butter (a suddenly everywhere spread made of ground Belgian spice cookies). Nestle the sandwiches vertically in a pan to maximize crispy golden ridges, and soak overnight in custard. Result: A hunka-hunka mornin' love.
Strawberry-Rhubarb Coffee Cake [25]
Cardamom and orange juice round out the sweet-tart flavor of this buttery, crumb-topped breakfast bake. If you like, make it ahead and chill the batter for up to 24 hours before baking.
Jam Crumb Cake [29]
Spreadable fruit jam ribbons through this buttery crumb cake, sinking here and there for a marbled look. A generous crumb topping adds more flavor. Choose your favorite jam, strawberry or raspberry, for the recipe.
Jam Crumb Cake [30]
Breakfast Monkey Bread Rolls [33]
Frozen or refrigerated cinnamon roll dough simplifies our recipe for Breakfast Monkey-Bread Rolls. Baking these rolls in muffin cups cleverly corrals their syrupy topping.
PBJ Strudel [37]
A super-simple braid of puff pastry holds a scrumptious filling of strawberries and sweetened peanut butter. Double-dare you not to pour a glass of cold milk.
PBJ Strudel [38]
Gooey Ginger Coffee Rolls [41]
This is so easy: Roll refrigerator biscuits with sugar, ginger, a little orange juice and butter, then bake side by side in a fluted pan.
Cinnamon Rolls [45]
In winter, let the yeast dough rise in your unheated oven. The rolls will rise best at a temperature between 80° and 85° . The recipe, with its heady aroma of yeast and spice, comes from the Patchwork Quilt Country Inn near Middlebury, Indiana.
Cinnamon Rolls [46]
Chocolanutty Banana Cake [49]
Dessert or coffee cake? It’s up to you. A hint of orange rounds out the flavors.
Overnight Cherry Chocolate Coffee Cake [53]
This is our give-you-a-break coffee cake. Prepped in a half-hour, it waits in the fridge till you pop it in the oven the next morning. Serve warm, and the chocolate stays irresistibly melty.
Kate's Blue-Ribbon Coffee Cake [57]
Lyndy Ireland cooks this coffee cake for her guests at Triangle Ranch in western South Dakota. "Shingle two slices dusted with confectioner's sugar beside the entree and not a crumb will be left," Lyndy says. It gets even better as you store it, covered, at room temperature.
Banana Bread [61]
Cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger flavor this moist banana bread. Make banana bread when your bananas get brown polka dots on them.
Banana Bread [62]
Breakfast Puffs [65]
These sweet treats can be found in nearly every Amish cookbook. Roll them in melted butter, cinnamon and sugar before serving.
Breakfast Puffs [66]
Apple-Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread [69]
Biscuits, apples, orange juice? Sounds like breakfast to us. Orange juice adds brightness to both the bite-of-autumn bread and the cream cheese icing drizzle.
Peanut Butter Breakfast Scones [73]
These energy-boosting scones pack a healthy amount of fiber and protein.
Chocolate-Orange Yeasted Waffles [77]
It may seem odd to leave waffle batter out overnight, but it's perfectly safe and helps develop a yeasty flavor. The method was made famous in Marion Cunningham's The Breakfast Book. If you don't fancy chocolate, orange and anise, flavor the waffles differently—or take 'em plain.
Cinnamon Surprise Buns [81]
These yeast rolls poof as they bake, hiding the filled center. Family or guests will love the spiced nut and brown sugar in the middle of these frosted treats.
Cherry-Brickle Coffee Cake [85]
This coffee cake recipe, one of the winners in a Midwest Living® potluck recipe contest, comes from a Robinson, Illinois, reader. Cherry pie filling stars in the quick bread.
Apple Harvest Bake [89]
Top this quick and easy, moist coffee cake with a dollop of homemade Cinnamon Butter for a fast breakfast or brunch treat.
More breakfast and brunch recipes [93]
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