Breakfast recipes are my favorite thing to cook, because breakfast is my favorite meal. This page has the ones I actually use: muffins and quick breads you can bake ahead, savory plates like SOS and baleadas, sous vide eggs, and weekend waffles.
Most of these work on a weekday if you do one step the night before. I've noted which ones in each section.
If you're feeding a crowd, the muffins and egg bites scale up easily; the waffles and cinnamon rolls are for the mornings you have time to linger.
Pumpkin Muffins with Cake Mix
The most-clicked breakfast on this site, and it's pumpkin season.
Make-Ahead Muffins, Quick Breads, and Scones
These bake well on a Sunday and hold all week, so breakfast is just a matter of grabbing one. The raisin bran muffin batter keeps in the fridge, so you can bake a few fresh each morning.
Savory Breakfasts, From SOS to Baleadas
When you want salt and protein instead of sugar, start here. These run from a military mess hall classic to Honduran street breakfast to lox you can cure yourself.
100 Ways to Cook an Egg
Stuck on scrambled? Here are 99 other ways to cook an egg.
Sous Vide Breakfasts: Eggs, Bacon, and Yogurt
A water bath does the hard part here; set it, walk away, and come back to eggs with no rubbery edges and bacon with no splatter. The egg bites are the ones I make ahead for weekdays.
Waffles, Pancakes, and Sweet Rolls for Slow Weekends
These are for Saturday, when nobody needs to be anywhere. Make the pancake mix once and keep it in the pantry; the Liège waffles use pearl sugar that caramelizes right on the iron.
Homemade Syrups, Jams, and Toppings
A good topping turns plain toast or a stack of pancakes into something worth sitting down for. Most of these can be canned, so one afternoon of fruit gets you a pantry full of breakfast.
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What are the best make-ahead breakfast recipes?
From these recipes, the refrigerator raisin bran muffin batter and the sous vide egg bites are the two I'd start with. The quick breads in the first section also freeze well; wrap them tight and thaw on the counter overnight.
Are sous vide eggs safe to eat runny?
These recipes cook eggs at 140F to 145F, which sets them gently and leaves the yolk soft. USDA guidance is to cook eggs until the yolk and white are firm, so if you're feeding anyone pregnant, very young, older, or immune-compromised, start with pasteurized eggs.
Is homemade lox safe?
Cured salmon is never cooked, so the fish matters. Buy salmon sold for raw use and keep it cold the whole time it cures.
How long do homemade syrups and jams keep?
Each of these recipes includes its own storage notes; refrigerated syrup and jam won't last as long as jars processed in a water bath canner. Follow the canning steps in each post if you want them shelf-stable.
All Breakfast Recipes
Everything I've tagged breakfast, newest first, including a few that didn't fit a section above.
