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My kids eat candy from their stocking then I make beignets, fresh squeezed orange juice and hot chocolate for breakfast. I serve the beignets in a paper bag with each of my kids name on them. Then they can take their breakfast outside or where ever they are playing with their gifts at. It's the same with us, it's the one morning where I don't care how much sugar my kids eat then we take a nap later on.

Apple Upside Down Pancakes - Always, every year. I saute sliced cooking apples in butter, cinammon and brown sugar in a cast iron skillet. I then make up a pancake batter that has a bit of cinnamon and brown sugar and vanilla in it. Pour it on top, stick in a 350o oven until done, with the top all puffy. Invert it over a serving plate (carefully - cast iron/oven means much heat) and do a bit of powdered sugar over the top. It's just delicious, tastes great, and is pretty much expected at this point. Now and then I'd make tiny little changes, but they were generally met with scorn. I guess I should feel complimented that this thing I came up with in a moment of boredom and poverty desperation years ago is so liked by friends and family.

This is super-cute: the first thing my husband's family has on Christmas morning is orange juice - which they started as a tradition after seeing it on TV, on Eight Is Enough.

My wife makes an excellent Sour Cream Kuchen. So we have some champagne and Kuchen every Christmas morning!

A delish egg strata which we prep the nite before, chill in the fridge overnite and serve warm and puffy right out of the over after we've opened our stockings. And as if the eggs, ham, bread and cheese and other dairy in that aren't enough, we'll have eggnog with it, along with OJ, cocoa/coffee/tea and tangelos! Yummmmmm....

Usually I send hubby to get us cappuccino and we tend to be cooking so we don't eat too much. Christmas day is always at my house. If we have guests overnight I make some breakfast usually pancakes or waffles or a frittata.

Christmas brunch is always at Grandma's (btw, I'm the Grandma). I always let the grandkids/kids set the menu. Some years it has been cold cereal & donuts, other years eggs, fruit salad & muffins. One year they surprised me & requested quiche! I'm working Christmas Day this year, so we are planning Christmas Eve brunch---menu deadline request is tonite at midnight--ha!

Good question, Chiff!

My mom and my sister always served eggs benedict for Christmas breakfast.

Unfortunately, I have to stay home for Christmas this year, so I have to figure out how to make eggs benedict! I've never done it before.

Maybe I'll just do something easier with eggs. It's definitely going to be eggs, though. And bacon or ham or something ...

I posted about my Mom's cinnamon leaves on an earlier thread about traditional family xmas foods... but I guess I need to give them a shout-out here as well, as I've never had a Christmas morning without them. Additionally, my usually shy mother just wrote a post about them on my blog. So you can get an idea of they are all about and the recipe here.

All of you making cinnamon rolls for Xmas morning: is it possible to make them up until backing and chill them overnight? Or will that ruin the final rise? I would love to make cinnamon rolls for my family this year, but despite being all adults (I'm the youngest at 27), we are very early Xmas morning risers, so I'd have to be able to do the majority of the prep the night before. Any ideas? Otherwise I will do cream scones w/ peach jam I think.

Ham biscuits; fresh squeezed oj

we will be having martha's cardamom streusel coffee cake, coffee and mimosas while we open presents - and egg, cheddar & pork roll on english muffins for breakfast. yum yum!

Feelings of dread and trepidation.

SB (not very festive)

PS: But don't let me stop you!

We'll be having either french toast or eggs and cinnamon rolls, with this great artisan bacon & breakfast sausage I get from Spars European Meats in Buffalo....they smoke their own bacon & make their own sausage, so meat takes center stage on our breakfast table. :-)
That will be after presents & before morning naps.

we spend christmas in méxico every year, and the highlight is my mother's pancake breakfast. we always start off the morning with freshly brewed coffee while we cook up a storm. the pancakes are blue corn with pine nuts, and she serves them with fried eggs, bananas and blueberries, and maple syrup. can't wait!

The only definite item on the menu is hot chocolate, which my parents used to make the night before and place in a Thermos next to the tree. It kept my brother and me busy while our parents got to sleep a few minutes longer.

Besides that, I might have a slice of panettone and an Asian pear.

Our enduring Christmas tradition - breakfast at my mother's house. We all pile into our assorted cars and travel the 20 miles to gather at Mom's for a feast. There is quiche, scrambled eggs, baked ham, cinnamon rolls and whatever else is brought to the table.

It is a time to count our blessings, love each other and celebrate another holiday together. The guests are older now, with all of the grandkids as adults, but the festive atmosphere remains undiminished. We open our $10 gift exchanges and bask in the warmth of love.

Mom and my stepdad, Sam, are 81 and 91 respectively, and as we celebrate every moment with them, we say a prayer for their continued good health.

this year it's just me and my beloved partner. i'm fixing her favourite breakfast -- banana cornmeal pancakes with warmed maple syrup and toasted pecans, crispy streaky bacon, and lots of hot coffee (spicy eggnog flavour from green mountain coffee).