Christmas Brunch Board
If you’re looking for a beautiful and delicious Christmas meal that will satisfy everyone’s tastes, you’ve found it! A Christmas brunch board is a creative display of your favorite Christmas foods, all on one amazing platter.
Christmas meals are all so special. Whether you have a tradition to start your Christmas day with fresh cinnamon rolls, an egg and sausage casserole, chocolate chip pancakes, blueberry muffins, or a steak and egg scramble, every favorite Christmas food can find a home on your cheery Christmas brunch board.
This is the perfect way to set out a feast your family will love and to include everyone’s favorite holiday brunch foods.
About this Christmas Brunch Board
Christmas brunch boards are endlessly adaptable, which is why they are such a great way to treat your family to an unforgettable holiday meal.
If your family loves loaded scrambled eggs with sausage, bacon, and toppings like cheese, chopped green onions, and salsa, you can arrange your egg scramble board with all the fixins and include a few special sides, like chocolate croissants and mini cinnamon muffins. What an amazing spread!
If your family is looking for sweet treats on Christmas morning, you can make breads and muffins in the week leading up to Christmas, and then arrange them on your board with maple cinnamon butter, sweet lemon glazes, and fresh fruit with yogurt and granola. A sweet treat dream!
If you’re looking for a traditional Christmas brunch board, you’ll want to include a balance of colors along with sweet and salty foods. Include a selection of proteins like meats, cheeses, Greek yogurt, and eggs.
For sweets, include your family’s favorite baked goods. And for a healthy dose of color, try adding bright orange citrus and green grapes, and a red berry sauce. You’ll have a stunning array of color on your table for Christmas morning!
Whether you prefer sweet or salty, colorful or understated, overflowing or artfully arranged, you’ll love making memories over your Christmas brunch board. It’s sure to become a favorite Christmas tradition.
Don’t forget about a special Christmas drink! Try salted caramel hot chocolate, poinsettia drink, pumpkin spice latte, gingerbread hot chocolate, or add a gingerbread coffee syrup to your morning coffee.
What’s on this brunch “charcuterie” board
You could really truly include just about anything you want with this fun presentation of breakfast, but here’s what’s on this one:
- scrambled eggs
- grapefruit
- Oranges
- pomegranate
- fresh cranberries
- green grapes
- mini cinnamon rolls
- cooked pancakes
- maple syrup
- crushed candy canes
- cooked sausage links
- cooked bacon
How to create a brunch board like this one
Cook bacon and sausage links as desired first.
While the bacon and sausage cooks, wash and prepare the fruit and make the pancakes.
Add the sliced citrus fruit down the middle of the board in a decorative pattern. Add the syrup and the bowl of crushed candy canes.
While you cook the eggs, add the cinnamon rolls, bacon, sausage, and pancakes.
Add the pan of scrambled eggs. If you prefer, you could use over medium eggs or over hard eggs. Over easy eggs probably aren’t the best choice for a board like this since the yolks may run out and make other elements soggy.
Fill in any holes with grapes, pomegranate seeds, and cranberries.
How to make this Christmas breakfast board your own
The possibilities for your Christmas board are endless, but here are some fun ideas:
- You can follow a flavor (like cinnamon, or blueberry) or a color theme (red and green is perfect for Christmas), or let each person in your family choose a favorite dish for the board.
- If there are a lot of people in your family, or if you want to make two smaller boards, you can make one board with your breads, muffins, bagels, fruits and spreads and use a second board for your warm foods like eggs, bacon, quiche, pancakes, and waffles. Or, fill one board with pancakes and pancake toppings, and use a second board for your other sides.
- If you’re looking for a Christmas dessert option, try arranging your desserts on a Christmas dessert board. Fudge, cookies, bars, chocolate sauce, peppermint bark, candy canes, and colorful candies look great arranged on a board.
- If you find that you have a lot of items for your board, you can use a cake stand to create a second tier on your board or use bowls on your board to contain large quantities of hot foods like scrambled eggs, cheesy grits, or gravy for those flakey, buttery biscuits.
Make Ahead Ideas
- You can prepare your fruits the day before if you’re worried about getting everything on your board at the same time.
- You can arrange your baked goods on your board before you begin cooking your meats and eggs. Just cover them with plastic wrap so they don’t dry out.
- If desired or needed, keep bacon, sausage, and pancakes in a warm oven (175-200ºF) while you arrange the rest of the board and make the eggs.
Get the Recipe: Christmas Brunch Board
Ingredients
Scrambled eggs:
- 12 eggs
- 1/2 cup cheese
- 2 tablespoons milk
- salt and pepper to taste
Fruit:
- 2-3 grapefruits
- 2-3 oranges
- 1 pomegranate
- fresh cranberries
- green grapes
Other:
- 12 mini cinnamon rolls
- 6 cooked pancakes
- maple syrup
- crushed candy canes
- 1 pound cooked sausage links
- 1 pound cooked bacon
Instructions
- Cook bacon and sausage links as desired first.
- While the bacon and sausage cooks, wash and prepare all the fruit and make the pancakes.If desired/needed, keep bacon, sausage, and pancakes in a warm oven (175-200ºF) while you arrange the rest of the board and make the eggs.
- In a mixing bowl, scramble eggs, milk, salt and pepper. Cook in a medium frying pan over medium low heat, stirring occasionally, until firm (or desired texture). Sprinkle cheese in in the last few minutes of cooking.
- Add the sliced citrus fruit down the middle of the board in a decorative pattern. Add the syrup and the bowl of crushed candy canes.
- Next, add the cinnamon rolls, bacon, sausage, and pancakes. Add the pan of scrambled eggs. Fill in any holes with grapes, pomegranate seeds, and cranberries.
- Enjoy immediately!
Notes
- Nutrition information is an estimate based on eating about 1/6th of the items on the board, but will vary depending on brands used, portions, etc.
- Feel free to swap out and include any of your favorite Christmas breakfast items! Have fun with this!
My only problem with boards of foods that should be served hot is that they don’t look like they would be warm enough for long enough.
I can see doing room temp items, but I would never serve eggs and bacon, and pancakes at room temperature – which is what this turns into.
This might not be the recipe for you then. 😉