Sweet Breakfast Ideas

[Kay Nein]

I need a few more sweet breakfast ideas. This past weekend I made my strawberry stuffed french toast & I'm burned out on it. Guests always say how "rich" it is & it's too large of a portion size. I make the bread myself (which takes 3 hours per loaf in my breadmaker) and make the strawberry sauce that's put on the plate under the french toast. It's so time consuming and although it looks great and tastes amazing, it's more work than I want to do. It's officially been retired. *sniffle*
Our Sweet offerings:

• Waffles - we give them 3 sections of a Belgian waffle with bacon and scrambled eggs. We do this often.
• Crepe plate - sauteed strawberries and bananas with sweetened greek yogurt inside. It's very good & easy.
• Baked french toast - not a casserole, individual slices of french bread, soaked overnight, melted butter poured over & baked. YUMMY! Not doable with 16+ guests because of the oven space needed.

So, these are my only sweet offerings. I want more. I particularly need dishes that are easy for large groups. Our reservations are way up this year (30 more rooms this June over last year) and we expect to continue to increase as the year progresses.
All breakfasts are chef's choice and include a fruit muffin and freshly cut fruit cup.

 

[EmptyNest]

Goodness there are so many. Check out all the options on sweet treats or breakfast on pinterest. Those photos will surely inspire

 

[Innkeep]

A long time ago our experts said that Aunt J emima pancake mix was as good as from scratch. I now jazz it up with cinnamon, a little sugar, a handful of pecan pieces and about 2/3 c per 1 cup dry mix of cooked steel cut oatmeal. I bake the pre-cooked sausage links with canned apple pie filling watered down a little with some apple juice. Then you can add a second side of potatoes if you want. Really pretty easy and gets rave reviews.

 

[Madeleine]

How many do you need to make at once? Do you have a griddle?

 

[Madeleine]

Can you cut the portion in half for the stuffed FT? Also, you're making the bread from scratch and it's taking 3 hours? Sorry, that's excessive for something that will be soaked in eggs. Now bread someone is going to eat plain or with jam, sure.
We make our many varieties of FT with either English toasting bread (tastes like an English muffin) or Italian bread. So, if you can do this without slaving over a hot oven baking bread: lemon-blueberry stuffed FT (lemon curd and frozen or fresh blueberries - make a sandwich, dredge in usual FT batter, grill up, slice, top with blueberry sauce, homemade), strawberry & cream cheese (same as above to make), creamsicle - orange marm & cream cheese or baked blueberry FT (you'd have to look up a recipe for that, I can't find it at the moment).
If you have a griddle and don't serve everyone at once our absolute fav right now is orange croissant FT. Orange zest, orange extract and sugar in the FT batter, slice croissants in half, dredge and grill. Serve with thinly sliced orange twist.
Other sweets are pancakes (blueberry and cinnamon swirl).

 

[Madeleine]

A long time ago our experts said that Aunt J emima pancake mix was as good as from scratch. I now jazz it up with cinnamon, a little sugar, a handful of pecan pieces and about 2/3 c per 1 cup dry mix of cooked steel cut oatmeal. I bake the pre-cooked sausage links with canned apple pie filling watered down a little with some apple juice. Then you can add a second side of potatoes if you want. Really pretty easy and gets rave reviews..

Since AJ has partially hydrogenated oils we've moved on to a local store brand without that in it. Still getting compliments. We got that store brand because a kid had some sort of allergy and this didn't have in it whatever he was allergic to. Everyone liked it so we've stuck with it.
Like your idea of throwing extra stuff in tho. I think a little more flavor would help.

 

[JBloggs]

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done.

 

[EmptyNest]

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done..

YUMMO...I can gain 5 pounds just looking at those I pinned this one this morning:http://pinterest.com/iamblondie33/sweet-breakfast/
Another: http://pinterest.com/paradisechateau/sweet-breakfasts/
I mean you can go on and on ....just go to pinterest and do a search you will be there forever

 

[Generic]

Okay, I shouldn't give this away, but what the hell....
lemon poppyseed ricotta pancakes which goes so nicely with a syrup based on raspberries... take frozen raspberries, raspberry jam and clear corn syrup and put together and warm in the microwave. Best served as small pancakes. I make 6 of them in a 12" pan.
If you dont' want to do the MS thing, you can use packaged mix (use the complete) but add some ricotta, poppy seeds, the zest of a lemon and a bit of lemon extract. Also, since you added ricotta, you will need to add about 1/2 a tsp of baking soda and baking powder.
You can also do a syrup with blackberries. Don't use maple syrup as maple doesn't go with citrus.

 

[gillumhouse]

Bread pudding (use day old bread - I always used the leftover French bread from the previous night's dinner) with either chopped peaches or blueberries in it served with yogurt on the side. Baked oatmeal - make it in loaf pans and slice it to serve. It has blueberries, blackberries, red raspberries (out of those today so used dark cherries) in the bottom of the loaf pan that is flipped like upside-down cake to serve. Today I had chopped papaya in it instead of cvhopped dates or plumped raisins. It also gets yogurt on the side.
Baked pineapple toast is a good one for larger groups. Use 9x13 or if you have them sheet cake pans to bake it. I cut my slices of bread in half to make them BP FT sticks. When you flip them to serve, the pineapple,brown sugar, & butter is on top - a sweet breakfast. None of my breakfasts take a lot of time.

 

[EmptyNest]

Bread pudding (use day old bread - I always used the leftover French bread from the previous night's dinner) with either chopped peaches or blueberries in it served with yogurt on the side. Baked oatmeal - make it in loaf pans and slice it to serve. It has blueberries, blackberries, red raspberries (out of those today so used dark cherries) in the bottom of the loaf pan that is flipped like upside-down cake to serve. Today I had chopped papaya in it instead of cvhopped dates or plumped raisins. It also gets yogurt on the side.
Baked pineapple toast is a good one for larger groups. Use 9x13 or if you have them sheet cake pans to bake it. I cut my slices of bread in half to make them BP FT sticks. When you flip them to serve, the pineapple,brown sugar, & butter is on top - a sweet breakfast. None of my breakfasts take a lot of time..

I will steal this thread since you mentioned pineapple. Has anyone here tried the recipe where you mix one large can of crushed pineapple with a box of angel food cake mix? That's it...put in a tube pan and bake till done. I am told it is delicious. If you have tried it, let us know. Talk about easy.

 

[JBloggs]

Bread pudding (use day old bread - I always used the leftover French bread from the previous night's dinner) with either chopped peaches or blueberries in it served with yogurt on the side. Baked oatmeal - make it in loaf pans and slice it to serve. It has blueberries, blackberries, red raspberries (out of those today so used dark cherries) in the bottom of the loaf pan that is flipped like upside-down cake to serve. Today I had chopped papaya in it instead of cvhopped dates or plumped raisins. It also gets yogurt on the side.
Baked pineapple toast is a good one for larger groups. Use 9x13 or if you have them sheet cake pans to bake it. I cut my slices of bread in half to make them BP FT sticks. When you flip them to serve, the pineapple,brown sugar, & butter is on top - a sweet breakfast. None of my breakfasts take a lot of time..

I will steal this thread since you mentioned pineapple. Has anyone here tried the recipe where you mix one large can of crushed pineapple with a box of angel food cake mix? That's it...put in a tube pan and bake till done. I am told it is delicious. If you have tried it, let us know. Talk about easy.
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I will steal this thread since you mentioned pineapple. Has anyone here tried the recipe where you mix one large can of crushed pineapple with a box of angel food cake mix? That's it...put in a tube pan and bake till done. I am told it is delicious. If you have tried it, let us know. Talk about easy.

I did it with the berries. Let me find a photo (and it was okay...the presentation was lacking, but taste was good) - in the photo below, I would be happier to just have the fruit and cream! Not my favorite, texture was odd, as you can imagine.

 

[Madeleine]

Bread pudding (use day old bread - I always used the leftover French bread from the previous night's dinner) with either chopped peaches or blueberries in it served with yogurt on the side. Baked oatmeal - make it in loaf pans and slice it to serve. It has blueberries, blackberries, red raspberries (out of those today so used dark cherries) in the bottom of the loaf pan that is flipped like upside-down cake to serve. Today I had chopped papaya in it instead of cvhopped dates or plumped raisins. It also gets yogurt on the side.
Baked pineapple toast is a good one for larger groups. Use 9x13 or if you have them sheet cake pans to bake it. I cut my slices of bread in half to make them BP FT sticks. When you flip them to serve, the pineapple,brown sugar, & butter is on top - a sweet breakfast. None of my breakfasts take a lot of time..

I will steal this thread since you mentioned pineapple. Has anyone here tried the recipe where you mix one large can of crushed pineapple with a box of angel food cake mix? That's it...put in a tube pan and bake till done. I am told it is delicious. If you have tried it, let us know. Talk about easy.
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Heck, this is easy enough for me. I might try this!
For the 4th I'm trying a two-decker panna cotta - vanilla and raspberry with blueberry topping. Have to start early tomorrow!

 

[Breakfast Diva]

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done..

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done.

I have found over the years that our guests really prefer a savory entree, with sweet(s) around it. I'll do a small individual fruit crisp for fruit sometimes, then make the rest of the breakfast savory with biscuits and that goes over really well. When I do a sweet entree, there is always lots left on their plates.

 

[Madeleine]

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done..

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done.

I have found over the years that our guests really prefer a savory entree, with sweet(s) around it. I'll do a small individual fruit crisp for fruit sometimes, then make the rest of the breakfast savory with biscuits and that goes over really well. When I do a sweet entree, there is always lots left on their plates.
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The sweet teeth stay here! We alternate and guests really like the sweet day.

 

[Willowpondgj]

http://willowpondbnb.blogspot.com/2013_05_01_archive.html
Our go-to's are Norwegian pancakes (basically a crepe), waffles and cinnamon crisps with fruit salsa. When we need alternate days for longer stays we do Abelskivers with jam, if you got two pans you could make them for days you had less people. I serve three per person, they are filling.. What about a cobbler or crisp with whatever fresh fruit is in season? I do that when I need an alternate. I also make scones (can be made the day before) and serve with whatever preserve I have cooked up or whatever is in season: See my blog for a few photos. I'm happy to share recipes if you are interested...
http://willowpondbnb.blogspot.com/2013_05_01_archive.html
Also made a mixed fruit Greek yogurt parfait this morning, it went over well, healthy and sweet..:

 

[EmptyNest]

Bread pudding (use day old bread - I always used the leftover French bread from the previous night's dinner) with either chopped peaches or blueberries in it served with yogurt on the side. Baked oatmeal - make it in loaf pans and slice it to serve. It has blueberries, blackberries, red raspberries (out of those today so used dark cherries) in the bottom of the loaf pan that is flipped like upside-down cake to serve. Today I had chopped papaya in it instead of cvhopped dates or plumped raisins. It also gets yogurt on the side.
Baked pineapple toast is a good one for larger groups. Use 9x13 or if you have them sheet cake pans to bake it. I cut my slices of bread in half to make them BP FT sticks. When you flip them to serve, the pineapple,brown sugar, & butter is on top - a sweet breakfast. None of my breakfasts take a lot of time..

I will steal this thread since you mentioned pineapple. Has anyone here tried the recipe where you mix one large can of crushed pineapple with a box of angel food cake mix? That's it...put in a tube pan and bake till done. I am told it is delicious. If you have tried it, let us know. Talk about easy.
.

I will steal this thread since you mentioned pineapple. Has anyone here tried the recipe where you mix one large can of crushed pineapple with a box of angel food cake mix? That's it...put in a tube pan and bake till done. I am told it is delicious. If you have tried it, let us know. Talk about easy.

I did it with the berries. Let me find a photo (and it was okay...the presentation was lacking, but taste was good) - in the photo below, I would be happier to just have the fruit and cream! Not my favorite, texture was odd, as you can imagine.

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The photo makes it look delish. What did you do for the liquid for berries?

 

[JBloggs]

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done..

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done.

I have found over the years that our guests really prefer a savory entree, with sweet(s) around it. I'll do a small individual fruit crisp for fruit sometimes, then make the rest of the breakfast savory with biscuits and that goes over really well. When I do a sweet entree, there is always lots left on their plates.
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The sweet teeth stay here! We alternate and guests really like the sweet day.
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The sweet teeth stay here! We alternate and guests really like the sweet day.

Ya see that is the thing, we have so many one nighters, we can do the same breakfast almost all the time. This weekend we have two three nighters tho. Finally!

 

[Flower]

We grow apples in our yard so one of my favourites one I use instead of baked apples is ?What ever you want to name it. You can name it your own. This was some thing I came up with one day when I was experimenting.
Peel 1inch of skin from top of apple. Remove the core. Then hollow out apple making sure you leave 3/4 of an inch of flesh all around.
Place apples in a pan or ramkins .
Then whip up cream cheese { about 8oz} whip till creamy and glossy smooth. Add one egg whip till smooth Add.1/4 cup of Maple syrup .real ms! mix well.
Fill apples until just full. Place ramkins in a baking pan and with 1/2 inch of water in the pan. Then sprinkle apples with cinnamon sugar.
Bake for 30 to 40 mins. Then serve IMMEDIATELY. The cheese mixture rises up. This recipe serves 6. You can increase cheese mixture to make double the amount .
If you have any mixture left just freeze it for later use. I usually make a batch of it and freeze till I want to make the apples with creamy cheese again.
The apples I have tried with this are golden delious, sparten ,ginger gold. What ever apple you use make sure it is one that holds it's shape.

 

[Madeleine]

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done..

Homemade biscuits - with jam are sweet. Nothin' gets better than that!
If you have a possible 16 guests, are they all at once? This changes everything. 16 at once, would be served larger prepared items, hashbrown casseroles/frittatas...platters of scrambled eggs, or whatever you make up.
Anything with fruit in it is sweet, imo.
Muffins - do seasonal changes to those, pumpkin, etc.
I don't like sweet breakfasts, I will attest to that here. I don't. Too much for me, I prefer a sweet WITH breakfast.
http://pinterest.com/michaelga/breakfast-in-bed/
Congrats on the occupancy increase! That is totally due to your hard work, great reviews, marketing! Well done.

I have found over the years that our guests really prefer a savory entree, with sweet(s) around it. I'll do a small individual fruit crisp for fruit sometimes, then make the rest of the breakfast savory with biscuits and that goes over really well. When I do a sweet entree, there is always lots left on their plates.
.

The sweet teeth stay here! We alternate and guests really like the sweet day.
.

The sweet teeth stay here! We alternate and guests really like the sweet day.

Ya see that is the thing, we have so many one nighters, we can do the same breakfast almost all the time. This weekend we have two three nighters tho. Finally!
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We have weeks like that, too. Same breakfast 3-4 days in a row. Simple planning! But boring. And when we have days like that it's always the sweet breakfast that we make. We never make omelets 3-4 days in a row.