20 Mother’s Day breakfast ideas to make with love
Treating your Mom to a Mothers’s Day breakfast is such a nice way to celebrate the day. I’ve got 20 recipes that will help give you some brunch inspriation to do just that.
Whether you want to make something for your Mom, want to spend time baking with your kids, or you feel confident handing the keys of the kitchen off to your kids to bake for you, there’s something here for you.
Fun recipes to bake for Mother’s Day
Growing up Mother’s Day was a day that the men in my family cooked for the Moms. There are some pretty hilarious legendary tales of mishaps in our family so good that the tradition has been kept alive if for no other reason than to tell those stories. I for one am all about handing over the reins of my kitchen to my kids. Actually I trust them to cook more than my husband, but he’s the best kitchen helper around, so I can’t complain.
Here are some excellent Mother’s Day breakfast options you can try out. Some are easy enough for kids to make on their own, and others are just beautiful and fun. All of them will make for a special day for Mom, and if the kitchen looks a little worse for the wear, that’s okay too.
Bonus: All of the sweet roll recipes can be made-ahead, so you won’t have to feel like you’re scrambling!
Mother’s Day Breakfast ideas to make with love
From make-ahead sweet rolls to easy one-bowl recipes simple enough for kids to make, there’s plenty of recipes to treat Mom to and enjoy your family time together.
Lemon Blueberry Snacking Cake
This little cake is stuffed with juicy berries and tender from buttermilk without being too sweet. Definitely easy enough for kids to make on their own, this is a great breakfast recipe for Mother’s day.
Strawberry Crumb Cake with marzipan filling to feed a crowd
If you’re baking this with kids for Mother’s Day, you can absolutely skip the marzipan filling if you can’t find it or don’t want to complicate things. Kids will love tiling the slices of strawberries over the top of this easy yeasted cake base.
Make banana bread your way with these mini loaves
Classic banana bread with less sugar is one of the easiest and the best recipes to make for Mom. This is in the top 3 recipes for my students year after year because of how good and how customizable you can make these little breads.
Lemon Zucchini Muffins so bright you’ll learn to love zucchini
Moist lemon muffins filled with the gorgeous green of zucchini, a little bit of toothy chew of oatmeal and packed with triple lemon flavor you’ll love. This is a great recipe for kids to make!
Whole wheat strawberry yogurt muffins to fuel your morning right
Rich Greek yogurt filled morning muffins with just the right amount of sweetness, studded with bright strawberries. Kids will love topping these muffins with strawberry slices and streusel, and you’ll love eating these wonderfully moist strawberry flecked muffins.
The best Sour Cream Biscuits
These are the flakiest, most delicious biscuits you will ever eat without question. If you present a plate of sausage gravy covering these biscuits to your Mom, you’ll have about the best Mother’s Day of all time.
Raspberry Sour Cream Coffee Cake
A moist sour cream coffee cake topped with cardamom streusel and raspberries with a ribbon of jam on the inside. This is a cake worth saving some fresh raspberries for with the crumbly kind of coziness you only get from the best coffee cakes.
Apple Butter Muffins with walnuts: your new favorite
Warm spiced apple butter adds delicate flavor to these sweet muffins. With walnuts and whole wheat flour, these make the perfect grab and go breakfast, lunchbox treat or after school snack, and they’re a great addition to a Mother’s Day breakfast if Mom loves warm cozy flavors and the crunch of walnuts.
Grandma Marie’s traditional Czech kolache (bread recipe)
These pretty hand sized pastries will greet your morning with their cheerful fruity fillings and ultra soft bread. It’s never a bad day to eat kolache! Making them with your kids is a time honored tradition that should never ever die be it Mother’s Day or any other day you want to celebrate life and family.
Easy gift: Mini Gingerbread Banana Bread Bundt Cakes
Adorable mini bundt cakes of classic banana bread with a ribbon of gingerbread brown sugar walnut filling running through the center of each mini cake. Dust them with powdered sugar or top them with cream cheese frosting. Either way, these are an easy to make, special treat Mom will love for Mother’s Day breakfast.
How to make perfect homemade flour tortillas that actually stay soft
If you love breakfast burritos, these stay soft tortillas will change your life. Add them to a breakfast burrito bar for Mother’s Day and you may never order another takeout burrito again.
Lemon Raspberry Rolls: big beautiful brunch rolls
Filled with raspberry jam and whole berries with zingy lemon cream cheese frosting, these raspberry rolls are about the prettiest sweet rolls a Mom could ever want. With the overnight roll dough, these are much easier than you think to make!
Cinnamon Sugar Baked Donuts that will make you smile
So much quicker to make then their indulgent fried equivalents, these stupid simple cinnamon sugar baked donuts are a mix and go affair that has all the beauty of the real thing. This is the kind of recipe your kids will beg for, but on Mother’s Day, they’ll be surprised how easy it is to make them on their own for Mom!
Lemon blueberry rolls that will make your Spring sunny
Take a cinnamon roll and fill it instead with bright lemon sugar, blueberry jam, and whole blueberries, and you get these sunny fruity rolls perfect Mother’s Day brunch.
Lemon Lavender tea loaves: bake Mom something special
A one-bowl creation easy enough for kids to make full of big lemon flavor with a hint of lavender flavor to make it special for Mom. Add in the easy two-tone coloring, and you’ll have a gorgeous little loaf that shows Mom how much you love her.
Easy keto cottage cheese bread to change your breakfast
If Mom is eating low carb, this cottage cheese bread makes tasty, crunchy edged toast with satisfying fat and protein. Grill it into Texas toast next to an omelet and bacon and Mom will definitely appreciate your efforts!
Carrot Cake Cinnamon Rolls to welcome in Spring
All the taste of carrot cake in a cinnamon roll. If you can’t justify cake for breakfast, these rolls might be the next best thing. Bake these for the Mom who loves carrot cake!
Baked Blackberry Glazed Donuts
Simple to make baked donuts get a technicolor berry glaze for a bright happy donut that you can make in minutes. Kids will love dipping the donuts in the berry glaze and adding on sprinkles.
Lemon Blueberry Donuts are the more fun blueberry muffin
Simple to make soft berry loaded blueberry donuts with accents of bright lemon flavor to get your day going in a way just a little more fun than a classic blueberry muffin.
Cottage cheese keto bagels
If Mom is eating low carb, there’s no reason why she can’t have an awesome breakfast for Mother’s Day! These quick and easy keto bagels toast up into a better than the bagel shop’s breakfast sandwich.
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