50 breakfast pastry recipes

Old-fashioned drop donuts, spoon-dropped into hot oil for craggy, irregular shapes with crisp edges and tender, nutmeg-spiced centers. Dusted with powdered sugar, makes three dozen.

Tangy and delicious, a perfect summer breakfast! This recipe makes 20 muffins.

Not too sweet, these scones are perfect to enjoy with a cup of warm tea!

Shortcut croissants made without traditional lamination. Cold butter cut into bean-size pieces gives flaky layers, while a long fridge rest develops the buttery, yeasty flavor.

These cinnamon rolls are ready in a snap. There is no mixing, kneading, or resting necessary.

Delicate and flaky biscuits are full of moist raisins and warm cinnamon and then topped with a delicious glaze. A family-favorite breakfast treat!

Drop donuts (no-cut, no-roll) made with buttermilk, eggs, and lemon zest, fried golden and finished with honey and cinnamon. The fastest fried doughnut recipe you'll find.

Homemade easy doughnuts are baking-powder doughnut drops fried golden in hot oil and rolled in sugar while warm. No yeast, no shaping, no special equipment needed for this old-fashioned breakfast treat.

Homemade fried elephant ears: sour-cream and buttermilk dough rolled thin, slit, fried golden, then tumbled in cinnamon sugar. State fair pastry made in your own kitchen.

Mom's best cake doughnuts: old-fashioned fried cake doughnuts with cinnamon and nutmeg in the dough. Crisp outside, tender inside, ready in 30 minutes.

French breakfast puffs are nutmeg-scented mini muffins dipped in melted butter and rolled in cinnamon-sugar. A doughnut-meets-muffin breakfast pastry that takes 25 minutes start to finish.

Perfect for a fall brunch, these muffins are rich and full of maple flavor. Just like french toast in a muffin!

Old-fashioned cake doughnuts use buttermilk and a touch of nutmeg for that classic diner flavor. Lower in sugar thanks to a sugar substitute blend, fried golden in hot oil.

These individual danish pastries are filled with raisins and topped with a delicious graze.

Spiced cocoa doughnuts: cake-style chocolate rings fried until light, then dusted warm with cinnamon-spiked powdered sugar. Mace and cinnamon in the dough add a soft, bakery-style aroma.

Cinnamon rolls with walnuts and raisins, finished with an orange-vanilla-almond icing. Big-batch recipe yields 40 rolls for crowds, brunches, or freezer stashing.