Name: 20+ New Year's Day Brunch Ideas
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Tomato Water Bloody Mary; Chocolate Kahlua Bread Pudding; Beer French Toast; Breakfast Cake; Mozzarella & Basil Stuffed Beer Muffins

New Year’s Day brunch recipes has to offer some delicious dishes that will be festive and help your guests to combat the hangover 🙂 Here are some of the greatest recipes to start your new year! See also New Year’s Eve Appetizers.

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21. The Best Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

Whip up the ultimate cinnamon rolls with this recipe, ensuring a light and airy texture, crowned with a creamy, buttery cream cheese frosting. These cinnamon rolls are a sheer delight, offering a soft, tender bite and bursting with flavor. The secret lies in the sweet, enriched dough, made tender with honey and eggs. This dough is surprisingly simple to make, primarily requiring a stand mixer for kneading. Your role involves timing the dough’s rest and rise, periodically flipping and folding it as instructed by your phone’s reminders.

20. Overnight Blueberry French Toast Casserole

For a Christmas morning brunch, I prepared a delightful French toast casserole. It’s perfect for baking while you enjoy opening presents. Top it with syrup, whipped cream, or savor it as is. After exploring various recipes, I crafted my own to fit my vision. I’m excited about this first attempt and eager for your feedback!

19. Loaded Baked Frittata Recipe

Enhance this hearty frittata with onions, peppers, and spinach for a rich flavor. It’s delicious whether served hot or cold. Bacon and goat cheese add depth, making it ideal alone or as a sandwich filling. Inspired by Joan from our community, try incorporating leftover roasted vegetables and thinly sliced baby potatoes. Ready in 45 minutes, it stays fresh in the fridge for three days.

18. Crumbly Waffles

Discover the art of making light, airy waffles with a crispy edge. They’re simple yet wonderfully versatile, suitable for classic or innovative flavors like chocolate or scallion.

Prepare a mix of flour, sugar, baking powder, soda, and salt. This mix can be stored for a month. When ready, mix in wet ingredients – eggs, milk, yogurt – and gently combine with the dry ingredients.

For extra fluffiness, separate egg whites from yolks. Whip the whites to stiff peaks and fold into the batter. For whole-grain waffles, adjust the flour mix and consider using brown sugar for enhanced flavor.

Freeze cooked waffles for up to three months. Reheat in a toaster for a nearly fresh taste. Serve with classic maple syrup and butter, or try blueberry syrup and whipped cream, or pair with fried chicken for a savory twist.

17. Easy Homemade Everything Bagels

Nothing beats a freshly made bagel from a local bakery, but this homemade everything bagel recipe comes close. With your own everything bagel seasoning, these bagels rival those from a bakery, offering a sense of pride in your creation.

The dough requires yeast, water, all-purpose flour, and salt, with a bit of brown sugar to feed the yeast. This ensures a quick rise and perfect texture.

16. Applesauce Pancakes

Start your morning with soft, fluffy applesauce pancakes, perfect for an autumn day. These cinnamon-flavored pancakes, topped with a caramel apple topping, are quick to make, great for busy mornings or leisurely brunches. They store and reheat well, making them a great choice for New Year’s Day brunch.

Use leftover applesauce for these pancakes, infusing autumn flavors and added nutrition. The pancakes strike the right balance between softness and fluffiness, sustaining you till the next meal. Optionally, add the caramel apple topping for an extraordinary breakfast experience. This topping is so good, it can be enjoyed on its own or with ice cream.”

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15. Classic Bloody Mary – A Weekend Brunch Vodka Cocktail

A twist on the classic Bloody Mary, this is a lighter version tomato water Bloody Mary cocktail fot your brunch menu!

Let’s discuss that quintessential brunch drink known for its hangover-curing properties and sometimes even doubling as a complete meal in a glass – the Bloody Mary!

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14. Chocolate Kahlua Bread Pudding with Pecans and Chocolate Chips

Reward yourself with breakfast that tastes like dessert! Slightly boozy too. What more can we ask for? Chocolate kahlua bread pudding is bursting with chocolate flavour and a truly special morning treat breakfast idea.

13. Beer French Toast Bake with Hawaiian Rolls, Altbier & Blackberries

I present to you the Perrine sweet Hawaiian rolls beer French toast bake! Featuring an extraordinary bourbon oak aged blackberry Altbier and fresh blackberries. And brown sugar, of course. Way to have beer for breakfast! See more classic French dessert recipes and amazing beer recipes.

12. Breakfast Cake with Hot Maple Syrup

I found this recipe for healthy breakfast in an old church cookbook that looks to be at least 40 years old. It’s missing the cover or I’d tell you where it’s from.

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11. Mozzarella & Basil Stuffed Beer Muffins

Extra buttery beer muffins stuffed with fresh mozzarella and basil on the menu today! Airy, moist and crusty all at the same time.

10. Sausage Egg and Cheese Breakfast Casserole

Sausage Egg and Cheese Breakfast Casserole, or Christmas Casserole as it’s known at our house, is and easy to prepare recipe. You’ve been busy with holiday cooking and want to feed the family, perhaps guests too, a great breakfast. This casserole can even be made the night before.

9. Mini Crustless Quiche Cups with Sausage and Cheese

These gluten-free Mini Crustless Quiche Cups take just minutes to prep, and bake up in no time! A delicious, easy weekend brunch! Even better … they refrigerate and freeze beautifully, so they’re a perfect make-ahead breakfast recipe for busy mornings, too! (Hint: make a double batch!)

8. Breakfast Avocado Toast with Egg and Sausage

Our Breakfast Avocado Toast with Egg and Sausage will keep you fueled up for hours! Hearty, warm, whole-grain toast is topped with tangy cream cheese and rich, creamy avocado … and then with a fluffy, super-flavorful sausage and egg scramble. Make this quick recipe to power you through a busy day (it’s ready in under 10!), or surprise your family by serving it as a {trendy} weekend brunch.

7. Cranberry Apple Cider Recipe

Cozy on up with this Cranberry Apple Cider. It’s spiced with cloves, cinnamon, and fresh oranges. This drink is perfect for the holiday season.

It’s time to cozy on up for this holiday season with this Cranberry Apple Cider! It’s made with cranberry juice, apple juice, cider mix, cinnamon sticks, cloves, and a fresh orange to bring you the most amazing spiced apple cider!

In case the mere ingredient list didn’t convince you to make this delicious cranberry apple cider, one reader, Alexandria, said, “OK… this was sooooo good! We’ll be making this apple cider every single winter from here on out! The cranberry juice with the apple cider and the spices is genius. Made our house smell amazing too.”

6. Celebrate the New Year with Puff Pastry Cheese Straws!

Delicate, flaky puff pastry straws topped with Parmesan cheese, sesame seeds and poppy seeds.

Have you ever had puff pastry straws or cheese straws? Think of them as a flaky bread stick. They are easy to make and yet very elegant. Your guests and family will think you spent hours making them and they will enjoy biting into the light flaky pastry.

5. Mini Frittatas for Savory New Year Day Brunch

Savor the delightful taste of these scrumptious mini frittatas! Each small bite is brimming with savory flavors, expertly cooked to create a culinary delight. These tantalizing treats will tantalize your palate and enhance your morning meal or brunch experience.

These mini frittatas are ideal for a quick breakfast. Prepare them in advance and simply warm them up when you’re ready to enjoy.

4. Easy Mimosa Float Recipe

I find myself feeling a bit blue now that Christmas has come and gone. It’s amazing how much effort we put into a single day, only for it to vanish as quickly as it arrived, reminiscent of a wedding but without the hefty financial burden. The sparkle of festive decorations and the sight of beautifully wrapped presents under the tree fade away, as the New Year quickly approaches.

In past years, I’ve clung to the holiday cheer for a little while longer, almost like my personal extension of the 12 days of Christmas. However, this time around, I’ve reverted to my regular music playlist and am nearly ready to stow away the festive trimmings. I’m actually getting excited about New Year’s Eve, anticipating the delicious food, effervescent drinks, and the prospect of a delightful brunch to kick off the new year, featuring this simple and delightful Sherbet Mimosa Float recipe.

3. Sweet and Spicy Candied Bacon (Millionaire’s Bacon)

Sweet, spicy, salty…..this is bacon like you’ve never tasted before. Sweet and Spicy Candied Bacon, also known as Millionaire’s Bacon, is a decadent treat you won’t be able to put down. Hands down, the best bacon ever with it’s crispy, sweet and slightly spicy coating…it’s a wonderful surprise at any dinner party and makes a great holiday gift.

2. Roast Beef Crostini – Perfect Breakfast and Brunch Recipe

Back in July, Madi and I attended a very elegant wedding. During the cocktail hour, we were served a couple of different hors-d’oeuvres that were just delish. I just knew I’d have to replicate at least one of them for our followers.

1. Five Ingredient Best Breakfast or Brunch Egg Cups

My friends, you know all about quick and simple meals and I have loved working with the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association and bringing you some fun meals that come from our freezer and refrigerator.