Christmas Breakfast

Every year for Christmas since I can remember, we always had a big breakfast.  My Mom and I would be in the kitchen for a couple days before Christmas baking coffee cakes, cookies and pies for Christmas day.  It's no surprise that when I had a family of my own, I carried on the same tradition.  This year I tried some new recipes for Breakfast.  One of my favorite chefs is Ree Drummond from Pioneer Women series on Food Network.  I have all of her cookbooks and I watch all her shows.  I enjoy her cooking style, colorful cookbooks with pictures of every step of the cooking process and her family friendly attitude.  I tried two of her breakfast dishes this year.

The first dish I tried was her Baked French Toast.

It looks really good right?  It was very good and easy to make.  Sometime when you make breakfast foods, they can be very sweet.  This had a good balance of sweet and flavor.  This recipe was very easy to make.  Per her recommendation, I made it the night before and let it soak up the egg and cream mixture over night and then baked it on Christmas morning while everyone was opening up Christmas gifts.  There are some dishes that are just as good the second day and this is one of them.

The link for the recipe follows:

Baked French Toast 

The second dish I tried for Christmas breakfast was French Breakfast Puffs. 

Look at the outside coating.  These puffs were easy to make.  My 6 year old daughter helped me make the muffins and I did the Butter and Sugar coating because she had moved onto another recipe of her own.  She likes to pretend she is making a dish.  She will go through the pantry and pull a bunch of ingredients out and play with them.  The muffins for this dish weren't as sweet like your typical muffins however the outside made up for it ten fold.  While I enjoy sweets, the outside sugar coating was a little much for my personal liking however my children LOVED them a lot.  The muffins were nice and moist and the outside left a mess on your fingers.  It was a great muffin however just a little too sweet for my liking!  

The link for the recipe follows:

French Breakfast Puffs