Breakfast side dishes are essential to your morning meal, turning a simple dish into a complete and delicious feast. From the crispy, savory goodness of bacon and sausage to the fluffy and comforting texture of biscuits and pastries, breakfast side dishes can completely transform your breakfast from average to extraordinary.
For a lighter option, fruit salad or jams add a burst of sweet flavor and color while potato dishes like hash browns or home fries are popular, hearty additions.
Breakfast Side Dishes
Breakfast side dishes are the ultimate equalizer. When you need to feed a family or any group of people, adding a variety of side dishes to your breakfast is often the best solution.
These side dishes keep the most important meal of the day exciting, add tons of flavor and generally round out the meal. Many of them can also be made ahead of time, even the night before and reheated or come together so quickly they're easy to make that morning.
Why You Will Love These Recipes
- Each flavorful bite is packed with delicious flavors.
- You can change the entire feel of your breakfast by using different breakfast side dishes.
- All of these family-friendly recipes are easy to make and use simple, basic, affordable ingredients.
Bacon and Sausages
Sausages come in a multitude of forms, each offering a unique taste. Breakfast sausage and sausage patties are the perfect choice.
Bacon is a classic side with a crispy texture and smoky, salty flavor that everyone loves. These crispy pork strips are part and parcel of any breakfast, and when people see a plate of all that crispy goodness, they just can't get enough. Don't forget about turkey bacon, a leaner alternative that still satisfies the craving for a smoky, meaty side.
Potato and Veggie Breakfast Side Dishes
Potatoes and vegetables can be prepared in a variety of ways to satisfy all tastebuds. Hash browns are crispy and golden and home fries, on the other hand, have a crispy exterior and a fluffy interior.
Vegetables like onions, garlic, mushrooms, bell peppers, zucchini, or any of your other favorites, really, can be cooked and spiced in various ways to satisfy personal preferences.
Casseroles
For a hands-off approach, casseroles and hash brown bakes are great options for breakfast side dishes. These comforting dishes combine potatoes, bacon or sausage, vegetables, with a blend of cheeses that are baked until bubbly and golden.
Bread and Pastry Breakfast Side Dishes
From muffins to cinnamon rolls, these baked goods offer both variety and satisfaction for your morning meal.
Muffins and Quick Breads
Indulge in the pleasure of a freshly baked muffin or a slice of fresh bread. You can enjoy the ease of blueberry muffins for a fruity start or cinnamon raisin bread which pairs excellently with one of our jams.
Sweet Rolls and Pastries
If you have a sweet tooth, sweet cinnamon rolls and sticky buns make great breakfast side dishes. These kinds of rolls and pastries can add soft, sticky, or flaky textures, as well as a variety of flavors.
Toast and Bagel Ideas
Toast and bagel options offer crispy or chewy texture and pair well with butter, jams, jellies, and savory options like eggs, sausage, and bacon. They're truly universal breakfast side dishes.
You can toast your favorite variety of bread or bagels and serve them topped with butter or jam or your favorite savory options to make a breakfast sandwich.
Fruit Breakfast Side Dishes
Top pancakes and French toast with fresh berries, apples or your favorites or serve your breakfast with a fresh fruit salad.
Breakfast Side Dish Beverages
Drinks of all kinds have always been a traditional part of breakfast. Hot drinks like coffee and tea, along with cold beverages like milk, iced coffee, and juices are always a welcome addition to any breakfast. Even hot chocolate is a great addition.
Hot Beverages
- Coffee: Espresso, Americano, Latte, Light breakfast blend
- Tea: Green tea, black tea, herbal tea
- Hot Chocolate: All varieties work!
Cold Beverages
- Milk: Dairy milk or plant-based milk
- Juices: Classics are orange, pineapple, apple, and tropical blends
- Smoothies: Fruit smoothies, protein smoothies, green smoothies
Tips for Breakfast Side Dishes
- Use a variety of sides that complement your main dish. Ideally, pair savory options with sweet choices.
- Cook in batches whenever possible to make breakfast easier. For example, bacon and sausages can both be cooked in the oven in large quantities, freeing you up to prepare other things.
- Choose fruits and vegetables that are in season for the freshest taste at the best price.
- Simple, easy sides are usually best to ensure a breakfast that's enjoyable rather than overly-stressful.
FAQ
How do I choose sides that complement the main dish?
Balance savory mains with sweet sides, or vice versa, to offer variety.
What sides are kid-friendly?
Pancakes, waffles, bacon and breakfast potatoes usually appeal to children.
What breakfast side dishes are best for making ahead of time?
Overnight oats, cinnamon rolls, and breakfast casseroles are excellent options, as they tend to reheat very well.
What kind of breakfast side dishes are good for a crowd?
Casseroles make a lot of food, and they reheat well which makes them a great choice for feeding a crowd as do baked goods like muffins.
Can I serve these breakfast side dishes for brunch?
You sure can! Brunch can be as light or as heavy as you'd like it to be. You control your brunch with the types of side dishes you decide to serve.
Bacon and Sausage
Air Fryer Candied Bacon
Bacon pieces coated with brown sugar and cooked to perfection in the Air Fryer. These candied bacon strips make the perfect savory sweet snack or can be served for brunch. The candy bacon is also the perfect topping for many delicious foods.
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Smoked Maple Bacon
This homemade smoked bacon starts with a pork belly! Yes, this maple smoked bacon is from-scratch candied, smoked pork belly bacon, and it's delicious.
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Hickory Smoked Bacon - Kicking Store Bought Bacon Way Up
This easy smoked bacon recipe is simple to make and so full of smoky flavor. It only takes two ingredients to make the best smoked bacon ever
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Easy Bacon-Wrapped Sausage
Bacon-Wrapped Sausage is a fun twist on two traditional breakfast foods. The sausage links are wrapped in bacon strips and then cooked until crispy and tende-.
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Crispy Air Fryer Bacon Twists - In the Oven, Too!
Crispy air fryer bacon twists are a fun new way to prepare regular and thick cut bacon. Give your breakfast a makeover with twisted bacon in air fryer or oven.
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Toaster Oven Bacon
Making crispy bacon is easier than ever with this recipe for Toaster Oven Bacon. The fat renders perfectly leaving you with the best texture every time!
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Sweet Glazed Bacon
Not your average baked bacon! The flavors are different and totally complement the bacon. Sweet Glazed Bacon is a recipe that all bacon lovers need to try!
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Breakfast Sausage Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls
Breakfast Sausage Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls are hearty and delicious. This easy breakfast sandwich recipe features a mix of breakfast sausage and cream cheese wrapped in Pillsbury crescent rolls that are cooked to golden brown perfection. These are great for breakfast on-the-go!
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Air Fryer Frozen Sausage Patties
These air fryer frozen sausage patties are always perfectly cooked. Browned on the outside and juicy on the inside, they're a breakFEAST.
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Easy Brunch Burger Recipe
Looking for something new and delicious for breakfast? Try our breakfast burger recipe! A juicy burger with fried egg, bacon, sausage, and veggies is hearty and satisfying. It's sure to be everyone's new favorite way to start the day.
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Breads
Air Fryer Cinnamon Raisin Bagels
Air Fryer Cinnamon Raisin Bagels are chewy and delicious and cook quickly in your air fryer.
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Savory Corn Muffins with Bacon, Cheese and Onion
This is it if you're looking for the best corn muffin recipe. Savory corn muffins with bacon, cheese, and onion are perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
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Air Fryer Bagels Plain and Everything
These air fryer bagels are quick, easy, and delicious. Served plain or as air fryer everything bagels, this air fryer bagel recipe is perfect.
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Air Fryer Pumpkin Bagels
These pumpkin bagels taste amazing. Air fried pumpkin spice bagels are easy and delicious, making this the perfect pumpkin pie bagel recipe.
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Blueberry Corn Muffins
The perfect blend of savory and sweet, these blueberry corn muffins are bursting with fresh flavor.
Sweet Coconut Biscuits
Coconut biscuits are a delightful, old-fashioned treat that combines the tropical flavor of coconut with a crunchy, buttery texture using only a few ingredients.
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Grandma's Homemade White Bread
Grandma's Homemade White Bread is the best grandma's old fashioned white bread recipe with yeast that makes soft, classic farmhouse bread from scratch.
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Swirled Cinnamon Raisin Bread
This Swirled Cinnamon Raisin Bread is nothing short of perfection! Fresh, out of the oven, toasted and buttered or make the most amazing french toast ever!
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Homemade Soft Fluffy Dinner Rolls
These Homemade Soft Fluffy Dinner Rolls are my grandma's yeast or crusty bread roll recipe, and the best super soft, light, dinner rolls ever!
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Cream Cheese Biscuits
Are you looking for perfectly flakey biscuits that just scream the holiday season? You’re going to be head over heels for these simple Cream Cheese Biscuits.
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Brazilian Cheese Bread
Learn how to make the perfect crispy, soft, fluffy and delicious Brazilian cheese bread with just a few simple pantry staples and minutes of kitchen time.
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Air Fryer Toast
Air fryer toast is so easy to make, and it always cooks up perfectly. Golden brown and crispy, it's everything we love about toast, both thick and regular.
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Breadsticks 6 Ways
Breadsticks 6 Ways with Pillsbury pizza dough makes copycat breadsticks or cheese sticks from Pizza Hut, Olive Garden and garlic pizza bread.
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How to Make Homemade Cornbread
Learn everything you need to know about how to make homemade cornbread that cooks up light, fluffy, and lightly sweet. It's the best traditional, southern-style, buttermilk cornbread recipe from scratch to serve as a side dish or use it to make homemade cornbread stuffing.
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Easy Gluten-Free Cornbread
This gluten free cornbread recipe tastes just like classic cornbread, but anyone can enjoy it. Try this GF take on a Southern classic.
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Grandma's Surprise Onion Soup Bread (1968)
Grandma's Surprise Onion Soup Bread (1968) is your new favorite bread. The cheesy onion flavor tastes amazing and the aroma while bread is baking is heavenly.
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Sausage Balls Without Bisquick
These Sausage Balls Without Bisquick are so tasty and addictive! We're taking your favorite sausage cheese ball recipe and amping it up with bacon and onion! Even better you can make them in the oven or air fryer!! These sausage balls are perfect for breakfast, brunch or even game day!
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Eggs
Air Fryer Poached Eggs
This Air Fryer Poached Eggs recipe is hands down the easiest way to make poached eggs. No more measuring out the vinegar, setting a timer, or standing over the stove to make poached eggs.
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Keto Breakfast Bowls
Keto bacon egg cups are a hearty way to start the day. Bacon, sausage, eggs, and cheese come together to create a keto-friendly breakFEAST to power you through the morning.
Easy Breakfast Baskets
Easy Breakfast Baskets are a great way to start or end any day! Filled with bacon or cooked sausage and vegetables. Absolutely delicious!
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The BEST Breakfast Taquitos
The Best Breakfast Taquitos are filled with meat, cheese and your favorite vegetables. The easiest morning snack ever, straight from your freezer to microwave!
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Easy Omelet Bites
Easy Omelet Bites are an easy, quick, and tasty way to make breakfast or brunch! Use any vegetables or cooked meat your heart desires! This easy breakfast recipe is perfect for busy mornings or a bite-sized egg dish for parties!
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Easy Ham and Egg Cups
Easy Ham and Egg Cups come together quickly requiring just two ingredients and a few simple seasonings. They are perfect for breakfast or brunch! Each egg comes with its own little cup of baked ham. Serve with toast and dip into the yolk or in between an English muffin.
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Air Fryer Soft Boiled Eggs
Have you tried air fryer soft boiled eggs? It's a simple way to make perfect eggs with creamy yolks and tender whites. It's much quicker and more reliable than the stove which makes it an ideal choice for busy mornings. Let me show you how to do it!
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Potato Breakfast Muffins
Potato Breakfast Muffins are fast, easy and tasty! A crust of frozen hash browns, with cheese, bacon, ham or sausage and any vegetables you desire!
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Air Fryer Eggs on Toast (Egg in a Hole)
Air Fryer Eggs on Toast aka egg in a hole is a super easy breakfast that uses an air fryer to make a perfectly cooked egg with crispy toast, every time.
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Breakfast Egg Roll Recipe
This delicious breakfast egg roll recipe is made with all your favorite breakfast ingredients including scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, and sautéed onions. It's easy to make, perfect for meal prep and you can change it up with all of your favorite breakfast combinations.
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Pancakes
Air Fryer Pancakes and Pancake Bites
Air fryer pancakes and pancake bites are slightly sweet and fluffy pancakes cooked in the air fryer either flat or in bite-sized pieces. They're an amazing way to start the day!
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Pancake Sausage Bites
Pancake Sausage Bites are an all-around fantastic choice for anyone looking to change up their morning routine or bring more excitement to a special brunch gathering. These bites are easy to make and so customizable, I'm certain they be a a staple in your kitchen for years to come.
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Sheet Pan Pancakes from Mix
Are you tired of flipping pancakes one by one for breakfast? Sheet pan pancakes may just be the perfect solution for a fuss-free, delicious breakfast. Not only does this eliminate the need for constant supervision but it's also an excellent way to feed a crowd quickly.
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Chocolate Banana Pancake Pops
Chocolate banana pancake pops use bananas and/or strawberries, on a stick or chocolate dipped, you'll just love these deep fried pancakes.
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Mini German Pancakes
Soft, fluffy, and delightfully delicious, these German pancake muffins are super easy to make and are sure to become your family's next favorite breakfast.
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French Toast
Burger King French Toast Sticks
These copycat Burger King French toast sticks are even better than the original. They're crispy, full of cinnamon flavor, and so delicious.
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Croissant French Toast Recipe
This croissant French toast recipe uses buttery, flaky croissants along with a classic French toast mixture to make a delicious breakFEAST.
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Air Fryer French Toast Sticks
Air Fryer French Toast Sticks are sweet and delicious and make for a quick breakfast made right in your air fryer in less than 20 minutes.
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Baked Blueberry Cream Cheese French Toast Recipe
This blueberry baked French toast is full of flavor and sweet cream cheese! Try this blueberry French toast bake for breakfast this weekend.
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Blueberry Croissant French Toast
This blueberry croissant French toast with blueberry sauce is loaded with the flavors of buttery croissants, Fench toast, and blueberries.
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Cream Cheese Stuffed French Toast
This Stuffed French Toast recipe makes a terrific breakfast treat for special occasions, holidays, or any time you have overnight houseguests! It's seriously one of my favorite breakfast treat! I love both the French toast with cream cheese filling and the crumbly topping! Both are nothing short of perfection!
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Jack in the Box French Toast Sticks
This Jack in the Box French toast sticks recipe delivers all the flavor we love about the original served up right at home.
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Air Fryer French Toast Bites
These air fryer French toast bites are full of classic French toast flavor and are cooked to perfection in the air fryer. A great breakFEAST!
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Potatoes
Air Fryer Breakfast Potatoes
Air Fryer Breakfast Potatoes are crispy, flavorful and super simple to make. If you're into delicious breakfast side dishes, then this is the recipe for you!
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Stuffed Hash Browns
Stuffed hash browns are loaded with flavor, thanks to a few fabulous ingredients such as cheese, bacon, and vegetables. They pack a punch, turning a side of hash browns into a hearty and satisfyingly meal.
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Loaded Benedict Breakfast Potatoes
How to Cook Breakfast Potatoes (the BEST way) makes amazing, crispy, fried, skillet breakfast potatoes with store bought hollandaise sauce or our homemade.
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Cheesy Mexican Hash Brown Casserole
Easy Cheesy Mexican Hash Brown Casserole uses potatoes or frozen hash browns, in oven, slow cooker or grill, breakfast, dinner with hamburger, ham and more!
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Easy Air Fryer Steak Fries
This Air Fryer Steak Fries recipe is both simple and delicious! The potatoes come out nice and golden brown outside while remaining perfectly fluffy in the center. They make a great side dish for any dinner!
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Hash Brown Breakfast Casserole with Bacon
Nothing is easier for breakfast than this hash brown breakfast casserole with bacon! It's perfect for serving a crowd and you can even make it the night before for easier mornings! It's a delightful dish for holiday mornings but also suitable to serve for breakfast any day of the week.
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Air Fryer Garlic Potatoes
Air fryer garlic potatoes are delicious and so easy. These crispy garlic potatoes are a great side for almost any main dish.
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Slow Cooker Breakfast Potatoes
These Crockpot Breakfast Potatoes make a hands-free method for cooking potatoes for breakfast! They're perfectly seasoned and cook up so tender and with so much flavor. They're perfect for a holiday breakfast, family brunch, or for feeding a crowd at your next potluck.
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Sweets
Mini Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Warm muffins, fresh from the oven, are like a warm hug. These Mini Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins are the perfect breakfast or snack anytime of the day or night!
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Best Cinnamon Roll Cookie Recipe
Cinnamon Roll Cookies are soft rolled cookies filled with a cinnamon sugar, pecan, raisin filling, and drizzled with a simple frosting. They taste just like cinnamon buns and they're absolutely delicious.
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Canned Cinnamon Rolls with Heavy Cream and Blueberries
Canned cinnamon rolls with heavy cream take regular cinnamon rolls to an entirely different level of deliciousness. This canned cinnamon roll hack using lemon, blueberries, heavy cream make a breakfast treat that's incredibly decadent, loaded with flavor, yet ridiculously easy to make!
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Banana Nutella Muffins
Banana Nutella muffins are going to be your new go-to muffin recipe for breakfast, dessert, or snacking. Tender, moist banana muffins are stuffed with a chocolaty Nutella center. DEE-licious!
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Mini Blueberry Muffins Recipe- (Blueberry Mini Muffins)
The Best Mini Blueberry Muffins recipe is one of my personal favorites on our site. So moist and full of blueberries with the most amazing topping!
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WW Blueberry Muffin Recipe
This WW blueberry muffin recipe is a better-for-you option that's just sweet enough and loaded with bursts of blueberries in every bite.
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Air Fryer Blueberry Muffins
These blueberry muffins are the perfect solution for a healthy and delicious breakfast! Tasty, moist, and fluffy blueberry muffins are so easy to make with the help of an air fryer.
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Grandma's Old Fashioned Caramel Sticky Buns
Grandma's Caramel Sticky Buns are old fashioned caramel pecan rolls, with or without nuts, these cinnamon flavored sticky buns are perfect for any occasion!
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Pie Crust Cinnamon Rolls
Pie crust cinnamon rolls are a delicious twist on traditional cinnamon flavored rolls combining a flaky, buttery base with the sweet, cinnamon-infused filling. Using pie crust dough saves time and you can still indulge in a delightful homemade treat.
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Coffee Doughnut Muffins
Coffee Doughnut Muffins are delicious and easy-to-make muffins that taste like old-fashioned coffee shop doughnuts. Sweet, cake-like, and scented with coffee these muffins taste remarkably like doughnuts. Unlike doughnuts, these Coffee Doughnut Muffins are baked and do not require yeast for a quick and easy breakfast or snack.
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Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls - Oh So Good
These blueberry cinnamon rolls combine classic cinnamon roll flavor with blueberries and delicious icing for a super sweet treat! Give these cinnamon blueberry rolls a try!
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Easy Peach Cobbler Dumplings
Peach cobbler dumplings are perfectly sweet and peach-y!! They make an easy dessert using crescent rolls to make dumplings instead of homemade pastry. Peach cobbler with crescent rolls bakes up in the oven for a peach dessert that's crusty and golden on the top while soft and ooey gooey on the inside.
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Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls with Chocolate Chips
Chocolate cinnamon rolls are rich, decadent and easy to create. Try this tasty, chocolate chip cinnamon rolls recipe covered with the best chocolate icing today.
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Apple Dumplings with Crescent Rolls
These Apple Dumplings with Crescent Rolls are simple yet satisfying. The apples are rolled in crescent dough, sprinkled with cinnamon, and baked until golden.
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Cinnamon Roll Peach Cobbler
These cinnamon roll peach cobbler dumplings combine two classic treats into one ultimate dish. Peach cobbler with cinnamon rolls will make your sweet tooth happy!
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Air Fryer Cinnamon Rolls
Fluffy, sweet, and delicious cinnamon rolls cook up in half the time in the air fryer. These homemade cinnamon rolls are perfect for weekend breakfast or brunch.
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Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake
This buttermilk blueberry breakfast cake is the best way to start the day. It's sweet, loaded with blueberries, and so easy to make!
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Condiments
Ketchup with Onion
This ketchup with onions is zingy, sweet, and full of caramelized onions. Onion ketchup makes a great condiment or addition to any sauce.
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Bacon Jalapeno Jam
This recipe for sweet and savory Jalapeno Bacon Jam is amazing! With a zing from the fresh jalapenos and sweetness from the maple syrup, it’s a perfectly balanced condiment that compliments any dish!
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Rhubarb Jam
This homemade rhubarb jam is a simple recipe loaded with sweet and sour flavor that's as perfect for breakfast as it is for snack or dessert toppings.
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Quick Homemade Mango Jam Recipe
Take your biscuits and spreads to the next level with homemade mango jam! This delicious mango jam recipe made with easy, simple ingredients delivers tropical flavor to breakfasts and snacks!
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Strawberry Jam with Jalapenos
This strawberry jam with jalapenos is the perfect blend of sweet and spicy! So easy to prepare this simple recipe is a delight on toast, crackers with cheese, ice cream and more!
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Try All These Delicious Breakfast Side Dishes
From sweet breads and muffins to smoky, crispy bacon, roasted potatoes, jams, and even casseroles, you'll find something to love here! Try any of these delicious breakfast side dishes, and you'll never look at breakfast the same way again.
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