Christmas Morning Recipes + Tried & True Christmas Recipes
Hello dear friend,
By this time next week, it will be Christmas! And if ever there was a year to celebrate Christ-mas, this is the year!
I am sliding in here at the last minute, with a slam-dunk, make ahead Christmas morning breakfast.
Maybe you enjoy going all out and making a big Christmas breakfast? The last few years I have enjoyed making things that can be prepped the night before and baked the morning of, so I can sit back with my cuppa eggnog and enjoy the morning.
Christmas Morning Recipe Ideas
- Chocolate Chip Croissant French Toast Bake |cause it’s new and my boys all went crazy over this easy dish
- Mock Eggs Benedict | amazingly easy to assemble, tastes dreamy!
- Hashbrown Gruyere & Prosciutto Quiche | Gluten free!
- Overnight Cinnamon Crunch French Toast |Another super simple make ahead recipe.
- Eggnog or Cinnamon Crunch Scones | make ahead, bake in the morning
- Ooey Gooey Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting | nuf said!
- Candied Bacon (yes, it’s a thing and an amazing thing at that!) part of the cinnamon roll recipe above.
- Chocolate Bread Pudding with Creme Anglaise | decadent, delicious for breakfast or dessert
- Chile Relleno Casserole | delicious for breakfast, lunch or dinner!
- Coffee Cakes! Gluten Free Coffee Cake, Blueberry Crumble, Apple Crumb Cake or Crisp, Starbucks Coffee Cake, Cinnamon Swirl Bundt
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We have had some cooler weather, with a little of snow, so it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Colorado.
The above picture is a little Christmas baking vignette on my kitchen counter. I found this darling mixing bowl at Home Goods and the rest I’ve had for several years.
We have a window box in front of our home and I enjoy decorating it with fresh greens and sugar pine cones every year! It was prettier the other day with a fresh dusting of snow.
TRIED AND TRUE CHRISTMAS RECIPES
Most if not all of these recipes can be cut in half for smaller gatherings, but I do pray that you are going to be with a few people you love this Christmastime.
Christmas Recipes for 2020
Easy Instant Pot Turkey Breast
The best, juicy and tender boneless turkey breast made in less than an hour in your Instant Pot! Need to supplement your white mean this Thanksgiving, or just having a small gathering, this turkey breast recipe is perfect!
Simple Herbed Butter Turkey
The BEST tasting turkey is one of the simplest; no brining, soaking, marinating or smoking needed. Just good old fashioned butter with lots of flavor courtesy of amazing seasonal fresh herbs.
Giblet Turkey Gravy (Make Ahead!)
This recipe for silky, smooth, oozing with amazing turkey flavor gravy is the last one you will ever need! Make ahead and save time on your busy holiday, while you wow your guests with this gravy.
Bourbon and Cola Glazed Ham
Cola and Bourbon Glazed Ham is an oven baked ham with just a few easy ingredients for an incredibly flavorful and simple ham glaze! A beautiful recipe for your special holiday meals!
Red Wine Braised Beef Short Ribs
These tender Red Wine Braised Beef Short Ribs are exquisite, elegant and amazingly simple; for everyday or a special occasion. Slow braised beef short ribs in a rich, herb and vegetable infused red wine beef gravy (sauce). It's the perfect fall or winter entertaining meal; hearty, rich, and packed with complex and amazing flavor!
Easy Chicken and Wild Rice Casserole
Easy chicken and wild rice casserole is a healthier creamy hot dish full of veggies, long grain and wild rice, slivered almonds and is a fabulous way to use up leftover chicken or turkey! Plus simple instructions on how to convert to gluten free and vegetarian.
Best Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe
The best stuffing or dressing you'll easily make. Loaded with 3 types of bread including pumpernickel and sourdough, sausage, apples and pecans, an easy, make ahead stuffing!
Best Potato Gratin {Ever}
This is the best potato au gratin! A classic holiday dish; thinly sliced potatoes layered with a dreamy herb and garlic infused Béchamel sauce and rich and nutty Gruyère cheese; baked to golden, creamy, bubbly perfection! The perfect side for your holiday meal!
Cheesy Asparagus Bake
Even non-asparagus fans will LOVE this recipe for roasted asparagus cheese bake! It's a snap to make, 5 minute prep, 20 minutes in the oven -- perfect cheesy asparagus every single time!
Cheesy Funeral Potatoes
Cheesy potato casserole topped with buttery corn flakes, creamy, cheesy, easy with no canned soup. The best potluck and holiday dish ever. Make ahead and gluten free option.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Honey Balsamic Glaze
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Honey Balsamic Glaze has a secret to the perfect crispy, roasted leaves, then drizzled with a warm honey balsamic glaze.
Glazed Tarragon Carrots
This recipe for Glazed Tarragon Carrots is so simple, with the fresh, earthy flavor of tarragon, a little butter and sea salt, you will have an incredibly easy, quick and tasty side dish.
Creamy Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Dreamy, roasted garlic mashed potatoes; enhanced with the flavorful elegance of roasted garlic, these will become your go-to mashed potatoes.
Praline Yams (Sweet Potatoes)
An amazing make ahead side-dish for the upcoming holidays! Light, creamy, complex, with undertones of orange and cinnamon, touched with a hint of whiskey, not to mention the indulgent sweet pecan praline topping.
Instant Pot Rustic Mashed Potatoes
These Instant Pot Rustic Mashed Potatoes quick, and they are loaded with incredible flavors; like garlic, Boursin cheese, spices, cream and broth for restaurant style mashed potatoes! Stovetop and slow cooker instructions included.
Wild Rice Harvest Salad
Wild Rice Harvest salad is overflowing with lots of satisfying crunchies, and you'll enjoy eating the rainbow of toppings. Dressed with this easy to prepare maple Dijon vinaigrette.
Sweet Maple Apple Pecan Salad
A delightfully light and filling salad, with bright colors and a light dressing. Wonderful for any season, throughout the year, easily adapt to seasonal fruits and flavors.
Fresh Cranberry Relish
This cranberry relish is super simple and is a beautiful addition to your holiday menu! Bright and festive, sweet and tart, 4 ingredients to this quick dish.
Sugared Cranberries | 3 Sugar Varieties
Sugared Cranberries are a fabulous, simple and beautiful holiday garnish and snack!! Fresh cranberries bathed in a quick hot simple syrup bath, then rolled into a variety of sugars.
Easy Yeast Rolls
A super easy light, buttery and delicious yeast roll; started in your bread machine for fresh, hot rolls in no time!
Oatmeal Dinner Rolls
Soft, chewy, with the sweet nuttiness of oats; these dinner yeast rolls will quickly become a favorite.
Sweet Molasses Brown Bread Rolls
Soft and chewy, these Sweet Molasses Brown Bread Rolls are simple and scrumptious. A touch of molasses and honey, healthy whole wheat flour give these rolls amazing texture and great flavor, similar to Outback or Cheesecake Factory Brown Bread.
Blackberry Bourbon Moscow Mule (B2M2)
This recipe for the Blackberry Bourbon Moscow Mule is bursting with simple yet, amazing flavors; smokey bourbon, sweet fresh blackberries, fresh lime juice and bubbly Ginger Beer.
Easy Cranberry Spritzer
A beautiful holiday drink - make it as a cocktail or mocktail. Cranberry simple syrup, fresh lemon juice, lemon lime soda. By the glass or by the pitcher.
Cranberry Lemon Drop Martini
This Cranberry Lemon Drop Martini is a sweet-tart; bright, delicious and festive holiday cocktail! With easy make-ahead cranberry simple syrup.
Pomegranate Mule
This simple Pomegranate Mule is a simple, vibrant, festive mule for your holiday parties. Fresh pomegranate, lime juice, ginger beer and fresh mint, is a winning combination.
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Christmas Desserts
Delicious desserts, cookies, cakes, pies and more for your Christmas feast!
Best Mint Fudge Brownies
These rich Mint Fudge Brownies, have a decadent fudge brownie base, layered with a creamy, creme de menthe mint buttercream center and topped with a thick chocolate ganache. WOW!
Eggnog Gooey Butter Cookies
Eggnog gooey butter cookies are just like they sound, gooey, buttery, chewy cookies, with a subtle eggnog flavor, finished with a sprinkling of fresh grated nutmeg!
Eggnog Scones with Browned Butter White Chocolate Glaze
Elegant Eggnog Scones with Browned Butter White Chocolate Glaze are a simple, yet decadent holiday treat.
Mini Chocolate French Silk Pies with Toffee Graham Crust
Smooth as silk, Mini Chocolate French Silk Pies are the bomb! Creamy, decadent chocolate French silk pie filling on a toffee graham cracker crust, with a dollop of vanilla bean whipped cream.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake - Nothing Bundt Cakes Copycat Recipe
A copycat recipe for Nothing Bundt Cakes for moist and amazing Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bundt cake! The best and easiest part, this Chocolate Chip Bundt Cake recipe uses cake mix and pudding! The ideal recipe for Mother's day, baby and bridal showers or just because! Make bundtlets, mini bundts or cupcakes too!
Oatmeal Rolled Sugar Cookies
A delicious, old-fashioned family recipe for Oatmeal Rolled Sugar Cookies. These cut-out cookies take a spin on the classic with the addition of chewy oats! Try them frosted or plain with sprinkles.
Joy's Classic Sugar Cookies
A simple classic sugar cookie, our family recipe for more than 50 years! Frosted or just add sprinkles, scrumptious either way!
Maple Bourbon Pecans
Candied pecans are amazing and these no refined sugar Maple Bourbon Pecans are even better! Sweet maple syrup, smoky bourbon, rich cinnamon, a little spicy heat makes these pecans outrageously addictive! A delicious sweet-salty mix.
Pan Banging Sugar Cookies
These Pan Banging Sugar Cookies have amazing chewy, almost caramel like centers, while the edges are delightfully crisp. Drizzle of browned butter glaze and some sprinkles to bring it from great to fabulous, an everyday cookie to "let's celebrate"!!! I guarantee you anyone can make these cookies!
Giant Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies with Fleur de Sel
A dessert plate sized cookie, filled with chewiness, wrinkly edges, decadent chocolate chunks with a hint of fleur de sel. What is now known as "pan-banging" cookies the time and effort are worth every minute.
Soft, Chewy M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies
An American Holiday tradition, the ultimate chewy chocolate chip chewy cookie, crisp on the edges, soft, and chewy centers with oodles of chocolate and seasonal M&M's.
Death by Chocolate Cake
A decadent, rich, three layer chocolate cake with a fudgy brownie base, creamy and rich ganache center and a light and fluffy chocolate cream cheese mousse top. It's easier than you think!
Chocolate Lava Cakes
Rich chocolate cake, filled with warm, soft, gooey molten "lava" chocolate center.
Chocolate Bread Pudding
This Chocolate Bread Pudding uses whole food ingredients; turning bread, chocolate, cream and eggs into a rich, decadent chocolate delight! Perfect for a special breakfast or dessert!
Easy Chocolate Pumpkin Graham Crisp
Learn how to make this easy chocolate pumpkin skillet crisp! Rich chocolate, blended with healthy pumpkin into a warm, soft, cobbler-like cake with a crunchy graham cracker crisp topping. Heavenly! Easily adapted to be gluten free.
Espresso Brownie Bites with Kahlua Buttercream
Decadent, rich, chocolatey, chewy brownie bites with an espresso hint and topped with a heavenly smooth, light Kahlua buttercream.
Oatmeal Sandwich Cookies
Amazing chewy, oatmeal cookies with maple brown sugar buttercream sandwiched between. It's like eating a warm, chewy bowl of oatmeal with all the fixings!
Brownie Sandwich Cookies with Cookie Dough Frosting
Creamy, rich chocolate chip cookie dough frosting sandwiched between the chewy goodness of a brownie cookie. Or try just the frosting and make Cookie Dough Frosting Shots, easily adapted to be gluten free.
Half Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies (Mini Skillet Cookies)
Half Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies or Mini Skillet Cookies are THE BEST and easiest dessert EVER! Crisp edges, molten chocolatey, caramel-like centers, served piping hot with a scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream, slowly melting on top.
Classic Shortbread Recipe
The secret of shortbread’s buttery crumb lies in its simplicity. This classic shortbread recipe is a simple blend of butter, sugar, and flour resulting in a taste far more than the sum of its parts.
White Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake (Instant Pot or Oven)
Make a special no-fuss dessert this holiday season with this make ahead, White Chocolate Peppermint Cheesecake. It is so creamy and festive, loaded with white chocolate and the flavor of the season, peppermint all nestled into an chocolate cookie crust.
Chocolate-Peppermint Ice Cream Cake
Layers of creamy peppermint ice cream, decadent chocolate cookie crumbs and crust, sprinkled with crushed candy canes and drizzled with fudge. This Chocolate-Peppermint Ice Cream Cake is the bomb!
Chewy Sugar Cookie Bars & BITES
Scrumptious, dense, buttery simple sugar cookie bars! Slightly undercooked with a heavenly fluffy buttercream frosting, great for a crowd!
New England Whoopie Pies
Class New England Whoopie Pies. Yummy, gooey, chocolatey, marshmallowy goodness, in a hand held pie!
Chocolate Fluffernutter Whoopie Pies
Chocolate Fluffernutter Whoopie Pies! Rich, chocolate mini cakes with an amazing peanut-buttery, marshmallow-y frosting sandwiched between.
Vanilla Bourbon Caramel Sauce
Need a quick, elegant, simple dessert sauce to wow your guests? This Vanilla Bourbon Caramel sauce is rich and creamy, a little bit salty with a hint of bourbon.
Rich & Chewy Hot Fudge Sauce
A sublime, rich, chewy hot fudge sauce. Warmed it melts onto your ice cream, cooling into a thick, chewy fudge.
Old Fashioned Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
Five ingredients -- that's it, just five simple and basic ingredients to this AMAZING, creamy, no-cook, old-fashioned homemade chocolate ice cream! Keep it basic or get creative with your mix-ins, regardless this is an amazing ice cream.
Old Fashioned Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Creamy, custard-like homemade vanilla bean ice cream, you know, the kind with those beautiful little flecks of vanilla beans! Just a few ingredients and before you know it, you'll have this old fashioned, no-cook vanilla ice cream recipe in your ice cream maker!
What’s The Fresh Cooky Cookin’?
- Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya (Instant Pot or Stove top) always a winner and simple too!
- Barbacoa Beef for Street Tacos | nom-nom!
- Grandpa Frank’s Spaghetti Sauce and Calzones, so easy, so versatile!
Free Printable Christmas Goodie Gift Tags
These Christmas gift tags have been a HUGE HIT! And I am so excited that so many are downloading them, making Christmas that much easier!
TAKE ME TO THE CHRISTMAS GIFT TAGS
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Yes, Christmas looks a lot different this year, but I bet some shepherds minding their own business a few thousand years ago, didn’t expect what they got either! Let’s go into this Christmas with open hearts, kindness on our lips and a huge dose of love in our hearts. Christmas is about LOVE!
This Christmas musical narrative of It is Well with My Soul with Hugh Bonneville is amazing, if you have never heard the story behind the hymn, take the time to watch this beautiful narrative.
This is one of my very favorite hymns and is so much more meaningful when you know the story behind the hymn!
If you are looking for a church to “attend” for Christmas, this is one of my favorite pastors, they stream their service weekly.
Merry Christmas my friends, thank you for being on this journey with me!
- Turkey (or Chicken) Divan | Great for leftovers
- Stocking Stuffers for Teens | new ideas included!!
- Best Cookbooks for 2020 | brand new with gift pairing ideas!
- Hammy Sammies | fabulous for leftover ham and always a favorite!
Thanks for hanging out with me today, you my dear reader are a HUGE gift to me and my family!
P.S. Check out last weeks Fresh Fridays, for more great ideas and recipes!
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