Breakfasts & Brunch Recipes

Buttermilk-optional pancakes with a tender, fluffy crumb from a quick batter you can mix in one bowl. Seven pantry ingredients, ready in 20 minutes for a no-fuss breakfast.

Double apple muffins use both apple juice and chopped fresh apple in a brown-sugar batter, then finish with cinnamon sugar tops. Tender, fruit-loaded breakfast muffins ready in 35 minutes.

Nutmeg snack muffins with a tender quick-bread crumb and a generous teaspoon of nutmeg for warm, donut-like spice. The pantry-staple muffin that's barely sweet and ready in 45 minutes.

These delicious pancakes are perfect for breakfast.

Upside-down nectarine muffins with caramelized brown sugar tops, yogurt-tender crumb, and warm cinnamon spice. A lighter brunch treat that flips out beautifully every time.

These have a great texture and are not as filling and heavy as ordinary pancakes.

Classic yeast-raised Belgian waffles with beaten egg whites for maximum height and crispy edges. The batter rises for 45 minutes until doubled, then cooks into golden waffles with deep pockets that hold every drop of maple syrup and melted butter.

Love these applesauce pancakes. Moist and delicious. Serve them with maple syrup and fresh berries. Yum!

Spiced apple-orange muffins with grated fresh fruit and warm spices. Light texture from folded egg whites. Optional raisins for extra sweetness.

Deep-fried French toast dipped in a flour and baking powder batter, fried golden in an inch of oil, then dusted with cinnamon sugar. Crispy outside, custardy inside.

Freezer cinnamon fruit rolls with soft yeasted dough, a rich filling of brown sugar, golden raisins, dried apricots, pecans, and cinnamon, finished with a simple sugar glaze. Make ahead and freeze for up to 2 months.

Buttermilk coffee cake baked in a tube pan with a cinnamon-sugar and toasted pecan streusel swirled through the center and on top. Tender and egg-free.

German-style applesauce crepes with a thin egg batter, filled with warm applesauce and dusted with cinnamon-sugar for a comforting breakfast or dessert in under an hour.

Boudin blanc de Liege, a delicate homemade white pork sausage. Lean pork and fat pureed silky with eggs, Port and aromatic spiced milk, dotted with currants, poached gently then browned in butter.

Cinnamon flop: a simple old-fashioned breakfast cake with a pancake-like batter topped with cinnamon sugar and melted butter. Quick, sweet, and nostalgic.

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.