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What do you typically make for breakfast Christmas morning? Are you trying something new this year or do you have a tradition?
Please share recipes, too. 
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We have chocolate birthday cake for baby Jesus.
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We always have a gloriously delicious french toast casserole that I make the night before. It goes in the oven when we wake up and get coffee and kids are doing stockings. Then it's ready after 45 mins, we eat and off we go to Mass. It's easy and so yummy! And we really do only have it on Christmas morning, so we can talk about it all year!
That reminds me that I need to go on my annual hunt for the recipe...  
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We make French Toast Casserole. I can make most of it the night before and only need to make the topping before I pop it in the oven. I can't say it's healthy, but everyone who has ever eaten it RAVES about it.
ETA recipe exactly as show in the book:
From the Cook Book Cover and Bake by America’s Test Kitchen
French Toast Casserole
Serves 6-8 people
This dish needs to be refrigerated at least 8 hours to attain the correct texture. Do not refrigerate for longer than 24 hours, or the break will disintegrate. Assemble the topping just before baking. Walnuts can be substituted for the pecans.
1 (16 ounce) loaf French bread, sliced 1/2 inch thick
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
8 large eggs
2 cups whole milk
2 cups half and half
1 tablespoon sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
TOPPING
12 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
3 tablespoons corn syrup
1 1/3 cups packed light brown sugar
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped pecans
Adjust the oven racks to the upper and lower middle position and heat the oven to 325 degrees. Arrange the bread in a single layer on two baking sheets. Bake until dry and light golden brown, about 25 minutes, rotating the baking sheets front to back and top to bottom halfway thought the baking time. Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.
Grease the bottom and sides of a 9x13inch baking dish (or shallow casserole dish of similar size) with butter. Layer the dried bread tightly in the prepared dish (you should have two layers).
Whisk the eggs, milk, half and half, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg together in a large bowl. Pour evenly over the break and press lightly to submerge. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 8 hours or up to 24 hours.
For THE TOPPING: when read to bake, adjust and over rack to the middle position and heat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix the butter, corn syrup, and brown sugar together in a medium bowl with a rubber spatula until smooth and incorporated. Stir in the pecans.
Remove the casserole from the refrigerator and discard the plastic wrap. Spoon the topping over the casserole, than spread it into an even layer using the rubber spatula. Place the baking dish on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until puffed and golden, about 60 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.
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Noreen, we were cross posting. Looks like great minds think alike!!!!
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Big breakfast casserole I put together the day before (Marilyn's recipe) and homemade cinnamon bread with fresh butter.
Marilyn's breakfast casserole
slightly modified by the Mack fam!
Butter or grease the bottom and sides of a 9 x13 baking dish
Slice homemade bread in about 3/4" thick slices and cover the entire bottom of the casserole dish with the bread. (You could use french bread, biscuits, any choice of bread product really) Butter top of bread.
Saute 1 pound of sausage until brown and cooked through.
Cut up and saute 1 large onion in olive oil. Add to the sausage and layer over the top of the buttered bread.
In a bowl, combine about 10 - 12 eggs, 1/2 cup of chives (we love chives and buy them by the pound  , but you can use as much or as little as you like), and 1 cup of milk. Mix together well and pour gently over the top of the bread/sausage/onion in the pan.
Sprinkle with extra sharp cheddar cheese.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes or until the center is set!
One thing I love about this casserole is that you can make it the day before, cover with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge until you're ready to bake! This means I can sit down and relax Christmas morning with my family!
Cinnamon Swirl Bread - 2 lb loaf
This recipe makes use of a bread machine, but it isn't necessary.
Add the following to the bread machine:
1 1/3 cups warm water
3 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
1/3 cup sugar
4 cups bread flour (King Arthur's unbleached is my preference)
1/4 cup dry buttermilk powder or dry milk powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 1/2 teaspoons yeast (I prefer SAF yeast)
Set the machine to basic dough and walk away sipping tea.
When the dough cycle is complete, remove dough ball and turn out onto floured surface, divide in half. Allow dough to rest for about 10 - 15 minutes or it will be too elastic and won't roll out well.
Roll out dough until it's about 1/2 inch thick...it should be oval-ish. You can brush with melted butter, or just use a spatula and butter the dough directly (which is what I do...use a good butter!) Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon and brown sugar (no measuring - that's half the fun!) Starting with one edge, carefully roll the dough up and place seam side down in a GREASED loaf pan (I use palm oil and it works very well!). Tuck the ends under or pinch them, and butter the top liberally. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise in a warm spot until they have about doubled (usually around 45 minutes). Bake in a 350 degree oven for 35 - 40 minutes (they should continue to spring up a bit in the oven.)
Remove from the oven and cool for a few minutes before removing the loaves from the loaf pan. BE SUPER CAREFUL - hot melted sugar will come from everywhere and burns! I like to turn out onto parchment paper for the rest of the cooling. We don't let them cool too long...they're best when they're eaten slightly warm with more fresh butter slathered on them. Butter is so our friend here!!! I'm a puddle just thinking about them!!!! SUPER YUMMY!!!!
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It depends. If we are having Christmas dinner somewhere else where we are only taking one dish or something, we might do a breakfast requiring more work like waffles or scones and lemon curd with a meat and fruit on the side.
If we are cooking Christmas dinner ourselves, than we will do a breakfast casserole similar to those above.
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My preference is something made up the night before that just pops into the oven that morning. We've done the
french toast casserole (I think dh requested it this year)
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Blueberry French Toast Cobbler
(6 servings)
6 slices french bread or good quality white bread (or whatever it takes
to cover the bottom of a 9x13 pan)
4 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
4-1/2 cups frozen or fresh blueberries
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Slice bread about 3/4 inch thick. Place on a rimmed baking sheet or jelly roll pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, baking powder, and vanilla.
Pour over the bread, turning the bread to coat completely. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit at room temperature for one hour, or refrigerate over night.
Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan. Combine frozen blueberries, granulated sugar, cinnamon and cornstarch, stirring to mix well. Transfer to the baking pan.
Place bread, wettest side up, on berries. Wedge slices in tightly, cutting some pieces to fit if necessary. Brush tops of bread with melted butter.
Bake in center of preheated 450 degree oven for 25 minutes, or until the toast is golden and the berries are bubbling around the sides. Remove from the oven and sift powdered sugar over the top. Let sit 5 minutes before serving.
With a wide spatula, lift toast onto serving plates, then spoon blueberry sauce over the top.
**note** I mix up the berries the night before too so that in the morning all I have to do is put the bread on top of the berries and bake.
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and we've done an
egg/potato casserole
dump a bag of frozen hashbrowns into a 9x13 baking pan, add some sort of cooked meat on top of that chopped/crumbled ham or bacon or sausage.. cover with scrambled eggs.. when it's cooked through.. about 40-60 minutes depending on the depth.. top with cheese and allow to melt before serving.
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I love this Christmas tradition we have in our family. My mom (and later I helped) always made Christmas Morning Coffee Cake. She served it with link sausage which in later years was Elgin sausage (in Texas where my family settled). We would place the cake in the oven and place the sausage in a pan to cook slowly while we opened gifts. And, like Noreen's family, we only made this coffee cake at Christmas.
After I married, I continued to make the coffee cake and served whatever sausage I could find, sometimes Polish, sometimes Italian. It all depends on where we live!
This is how much this tradition means to me. We were offered an opportunity to travel at to Rome over Christmas. There were a couple of reasons we choose not to go, but my dd informed me we could not go because we had to have the coffee cake and sausage on Christmas morning! I certainly hope this means the tradition will continue. Although Jen, I am eyeing your casserole...maybe Easter morning?
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We usually stay up to midnight with my side of the family and then celebrate Christmas day with my husband's side. Breakfast has to have no prep work around here. I'll just buy Pillsbury cinnamon rolls put them in the oven and eat with some hot chocolate/coffee while we watch the kids open presents.
The big thing for us has usually been the actual preparing process of a Mexican stew every Christmas morning. We used to make tortilla soup and have it for brunch. About four years ago I found this Pork Posole recipe on Cooking Light and that is what we have been making ever since. My husband is 1/4 Mexican and really enjoys the traditional foods but not the richness of them, so when I found this very light way of making it he was thrilled (and so was his dad). 
Not quite breakfast but it is becoming our breakfast tradition .
Ditto Carole, ooh those casseroles really sound good!!!
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I almost always have family guests staying with us at Christmas, so I always set out a huge brunch buffet that we can all munch on as we like through the day. It includes all of the usual breakfast and lunch suspects: bacon and eggs, sausages, hash browns, biscuits,a tray of lunch meats and cheeses, various breads (sweet and sandwich), and a veggie tray and dips, chips and crackers, coffee and juice.
This way I can set it out and I am done until dinner. I can relax and enjoy the day with family.
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Filipino Christmas Tradition:
Ensaimadas
Smithfield ham (sub for Chinese ham)
Thick Hot Chocolate with or without the spices.
Some years we do this, some years we don't.
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We have a brunch after presents. Mass is always the night before. Coffee during presents! On Christmas Eve we do A LOT of baking. The brunch items are usually cranberry walnut bread and sticky buns, rounded out with juice (and seltzer - fancy! ), bacon, sometimes sausage as well, clementines, berries and vanilla yogurt.
Pretty much, no one wants to eat dinner on Christmas...
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Oooh, lots of french toast casseroles listed! We do one, too, with apples. Or, we have an egg casserole. AND sticky buns! Meats include both bacon and sausage (patties only!)
We eat after opening gifts, around 9, as we almost always go to 10am Mass.
In Christ,
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Panettone is a must for Christmas breakfast.
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I just had some of that yesterday, Jenn! Good!
We have scrambled eggs, sausage, orange juice and my homemade cinnamon rolls....that we only make for Easter & Christmas.
It is a meal of common foods...but the combination with the cinnamon rolls is extremely good.
It must be a winner.....because my 13 yo son has been drooling over this meal in anticipation for the last two weeks.....and making sure that I have all of the ingredients on hand. 
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Oh, they only get this at mid-morning...and then dinner...with snacking all day. so they eat a lot of it.
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We eat panettone and Christmas cookies.
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All my life it's been Christstollen and cookies. My hubby is taken to this tradition...sometimes he likes to have menudo.
This year I want to add an egg/sausage casserole.
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We always go to the early Mass with in-laws. Brunch and present opening at their house after. Someone makes the egg/sausage casserole ahead and has it baking while we are at Mass. Toast and scrambled/fried eggs are usually offered (not everyone will eat the casserole...)
I have either brought pigs n blankets, or coffee cake, and there is always lots of cookies goodies around too. (This year with just immediate family will be 38-39 people, depending on if SIL has her baby yet )
So even though it sounds like a lot of food, it is actually a very simple breakfast that all the daugters/ DILs make so my MIL doesn't have to cook the normal huge spread she makes for Sun brunch.
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