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Rise & Shine Breakfast Breads

By Midwest Living editors Updated January 21, 2023
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Wake up your day with the warm scent of these good-morning temptations: baked doughnuts, jam-filled cake, gooey pull-apart rolls, moist muffins, tender scones and more.

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Chocolate-Peanut Butter Baked Doughnuts

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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.

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Fluffiest Cinnamon Rolls

Fluffiest Cinnamon Rolls
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Because of the super buttery dough, these meltingly tender brioche buns hover on the line between pastry and bread. The recipe comes from Heritage Baking (Chronicle, $29.95), by Illinois bakery owner Ellen King.

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Fig and Pecan Scones

Fig and Pecan Scones
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Any dried fig variety (black, Mission or golden California figs) works in this tender, buttery recipe. Cutting scones into wedges is faster than rounds and means no wasted dough scraps.

Related: Simple Recipes for Tender, Buttery Scones

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Doughnut Bundt

Doughnut Bundt
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Nutmeg is the secret ingredient that makes this playful Bundt taste just like a cake doughnut. (Be sure to use freshly grated nutmeg—you'll really notice the difference in flavor.)

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Rosy Rhubarb, Raspberry and Cheese Danish

Rosy Rhubarb, Raspberry and Cheese Danish
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These beauties use frozen puff pastry for ease, but the filling has an optional fancy ingredient: rose water. It gives a lovely, floral je ne sais quoi to the punchy fruit.

Related: Favorite Rhubarb Recipes

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Crunchy Yogurt-Granola Upside-Down Cake

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No fruit here in this upside-down cake, just a brown sugary streusel-like layer of walnuts, coconut and granola baked under (then flipped over) a vanilla coffee cake. 

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PBJ Strudel

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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.

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Overnight Cherry Chocolate Coffee Cake

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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.

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Peanut Butter Breakfast Scones

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These energy-boosting scones pack a healthy amount of fiber and protein. And did we mention the peanut butter flavor? 

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Caramel-Banana Muffins

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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.

Related: Quick and Easy Muffin Recipes

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Jam Crumb Cake

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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.

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Chocolanutty Banana Cake

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Dessert or coffee cake? It's up to you. A hint of orange rounds out the flavors.

Related: Easy Recipes to Make With Bananas

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Breakfast Monkey Bread Rolls

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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.

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Banana Bread

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Cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger flavor this moist banana bread. Make banana bread when your bananas get brown polka dots on them.

Related: 20 Sweet Quick Bread Loaves

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Breakfast Puffs

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These sweet treats can be found in nearly every Amish cookbook. Roll them in melted butter, cinnamon and sugar before serving.

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Apple-Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread

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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. 

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Cinnamon Rolls

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In winter, let 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.

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Sour Cream Cranberry Muffins

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Brown sugar, pecans and pumpkin pie spice create both a filling and the topping for these muffins. Dried cranberries add tang and texture. 

Related: Cranberry Recipes You'll Love

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Cinnamon Surprise Buns

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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.

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Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake

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Plump blueberries create a juicy filling in this old-fashioned sour cream coffee cake from The White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on Wisconsin's Door County Peninsula.

Related: Favorite Brunch Recipes

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    1 of 20 Chocolate-Peanut Butter Baked Doughnuts
    2 of 20 Fluffiest Cinnamon Rolls
    3 of 20 Fig and Pecan Scones
    4 of 20 Doughnut Bundt
    5 of 20 Rosy Rhubarb, Raspberry and Cheese Danish
    6 of 20 Crunchy Yogurt-Granola Upside-Down Cake
    7 of 20 PBJ Strudel
    8 of 20 Overnight Cherry Chocolate Coffee Cake
    9 of 20 Peanut Butter Breakfast Scones
    10 of 20 Caramel-Banana Muffins
    11 of 20 Jam Crumb Cake
    12 of 20 Chocolanutty Banana Cake
    13 of 20 Breakfast Monkey Bread Rolls
    14 of 20 Banana Bread
    15 of 20 Breakfast Puffs
    16 of 20 Apple-Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread
    17 of 20 Cinnamon Rolls
    18 of 20 Sour Cream Cranberry Muffins
    19 of 20 Cinnamon Surprise Buns
    20 of 20 Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake

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