Christmas Breakfast

We are actually going to be home for Christmas AM so I'm trying to start a breakfast tradition. I'm going to make a crockpot breakfast casserole & then bacon and hash browns for the kid with an egg allergy. We also started a tradition of having pizza fondue & chocolate fondue on Christmas Eve so I'll serve the leftover fruit as well. Since we will be going to church on Christmas Eve and on Christmas morning I'll be assembling the casserole the night before & pulling out a serving of hash browns to cook in the AM.
I think it will all go just fine.
 
I think this sounds wonderful., especially since the oven has been acting up (so baked goods are problematic), but I might make it in a slightly smaller version since we only have three people in my family. AKL Megs, have you ever made it with *less* than a dozen eggs/pack of bacon/etc.?

agnes!

I have not, but I am thinking you could cut the recipe in half?!?! If you like it with fewer eggs and meat, it would just be more "hash browny" ;) I'm not sure how you'd adjust the time, though...

And, oh my goodness, YES, it is to be cooked on LOW 10-12 hours!!!
 
We eat Christmas brunch at 11:00 at my mom's house every Christmas. She serves a traditional breakfast casserole, hash brown potatoes, country ham biscuits, fruit salad, blueberry muffins. Since my kids wake up early, I need to feed them a little something right after we open presents before we get ready to go to my mom's house so I usually serve monkey bread or cinnamon rolls (and lots of coffee for me and my husband!).
 
Thanks for this link! I am going to try it! Do you think it would be okay if you put sausage and bacon in it? I would like to kind of make it like a meat lovers!

Yes! If you look through the reviews, you will see people use sausage instead, so a combo will taste great I am sure! :)
 

Sure! :) Pretty easy actually, you just get your fingers a little messy at the assembling -end of things.

Sift together:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

To that, cut in 1/4 cup shortening OR butter, softened to room temperature, until mixture is crumbly.

Mix together 1 egg and 1/2 cup milk, and stir that into the flour mixture. Try not to over-stir.

Now, combine with a fork:
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup chopped nuts (I use pecans, but you could use walnuts as well)
1 Tbsp flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 Tbsp melted butter

Prepare muffin pans by lining cups with paper liners or spraying tins with non-stick spray.

Using two silverware-type tea spoons (sounds odd, but it works), scoop up a spoonful of batter on one spoon, and then use the other spoon to push the batter into the muffin cup. Sprinkle a bit of the strusel topping on top of the batter using the fork you mixed it with, then add another spoonful of batter on top of that. Once you have finished filling all your muffin cups, THEN go back and top all of the muffins with more strusel by dividing what's left evenly onto each muffin.

Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into a muffin comes out clean. Makes about a dozen muffins, depending on size.

NOTES: My husband likes these more strusel-y, so I often double the amount of topping I make.
Also, if I am cooking for a crowd, I double the batter recipe, but then I quadruple the topping. ;)
I have also added berries to the batter mix, usually blueberries or huckleberries. Its quite tasty but makes the batter a little "looser" so they take a wee bit longer to cook.

If your muffin tins are larger, it may take a bit longer to cook them.

Sorsha, we made these this morning.

My BIL looked at me and said, "My cheeks are flying!" ...which apparently means that they're delicious.

Thank you for sharing. :hug:
 
I made blueberry and cream cheese French toast with blueberry syrup and sausage this morning ~ YUM!!!
 
Sorsha, we made these this morning.

My BIL looked at me and said, "My cheeks are flying!" ...which apparently means that they're delicious.

Thank you for sharing. :hug:

You're so welcome - glad everyone enjoyed them!

We had them for breakfast too, so we were dining together across the miles. :hug:
 




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