Christmas Breakfast - Monkey Bread Question added

For many years I’ve done monkey bread. I’m tired of it. Dh likes it. Kids are indifferent. I think this year I’ll do cinnamon rolls from tik tok with the heavy cream.

I usually make a strata with either bacon, ham or sausage. Make the night before, pop in the oven in the morning before we start opening gifts and it's done when we are. Serve with muffins.

But, I'm not feeling much like making it this year. I want keep everything simple. Had the stomach virus last week (first time since 1993 and yikes!). And I still don't have much energy.

I host Christmas dinner, so I don't want to do too much extra work.

Thinking store bought cinnamon rolls and a raspberry danish.

This breakfast casserole:

www.spendwithpennies.com/hashbrown-breakfast-casserole/

I don't usually do the onions/peppers. Sometimes I add other breakfast meats.

The key is thawing the hashbrowns, I also squeeze them with a cheese cloth.

In years we are at my Dad’s, I make Belgian waffles. The batter had to rise, so we don’t have them very often. But I will get it started, and we do gifts while it’s rising.

In years we are at DH’s, it’s whatever FIL makes.

I forgot to add that we eat powdered donuts and chocolate milk while opening gifts. I started that I think ds’ 2nd Christmas and it stuck.

We do a bagel spread for Christmas breakfast. (bagels, cream cheese, nova, pepperoni, thinly sliced red onion, cucumber, tomatoes, capers)

Mimosa bar too.

I often make a breakfast casserole, but I dont have the ingredients for it, so we will have eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast.

We go to my sister's for a big gathering...we serve scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, hash brown casserole, ham and cheese roll ups, overnight french toast, fruit salad, some baked goods plus whatever else anyone brings.

We always do something quick and easy Christmas Day as we typically gather with my large extended family for a meal at 1:00. This year I was going to pick up a strawberry cream cheese strudel and my oldest DD reminded me that we always have cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. I did get Cinnabon cinnamon rolls for many Christmas mornings but then they closed all the stores around me. So I have made refrigerator bake and serve cinnamon rolls (in the shape of a christmas tree) for the past couple years. She is very big on tradition so of course she will get her cinnamon rolls.

Cinnamon rolls - started the year we were married.

Our Christmas breakfast tradition is English Tea Cake plus scrambled eggs and bacon.  The tea cake recipe is from DH’s aunt, and I have made them for the last 50 years, at least.  The recipe makes 4 cakes, and I freeze them and give the extra ones as gifts.  They contain candied fruit, raisins, and orange zest in a yeast batter, and are split and a butter/powdered sugar layer inserted.  Then heated in oven for serving.  We ❤️ them.

We either have coffee cake or dutch babies.. dh makes those. but he is in recovery mode so I may make coffee cake. having church on christmas makes for complications.

We do biscuits and gravy every Sunday and will do that. We'll just have mimosas instead of juice or coffee.

We'll still have coffee, just later.

traditionally we do stollen and (for the stollen haters aka my girls) cinnamon rolls (the Pillsbury kind, lol)

This year I'm making an eggs Benedict casserole - and the cinnamon rolls