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    Festive Breakfast Bakes to Fill Your Home with Holiday Cheer

    Published: Dec 5, 2025 by Helen S Fletcher · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

    Make your December mornings extra special with a warm, homemade breakfast. These cozy muffins, scones, and coffee cakes are brimming with seasonal flavors like cranberry, apple, and warm spices, making them the perfect start to any chilly day.

    Cranberry Muffins Recipe
    This Cranberry Muffins Recipe is quick to make, celebrates the season with their vibrant color and tart taste. While thought of mostly in the fall and around Thanksgiving, this fruit can be used in its frozen form to great advantage as in this recipe.
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    A basket of Cranberry Muffins with one split open on top.
    A single Apple Muffin covered with a crunchy sugar topping.
    Crunchy Topped Apple Muffin Recipe
    This super Crunchy Topped Apple Muffin Recipe is not only super easy and fast but one of the best muffins around. The key to these wonders is lots of apples and a really crunchy sugar topping that isn't exactly a crumb but a close cousin you're sure to love.
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    Simple Pumpkin Pecan Scones Recipe
    These Simple Pumpkin Pecan Scones are perfect for breakfast, brunch or snack. Quickly made with tons of warm spices and toasted pecans, these are finished with an orange glaze and pecans and sanding sugar for a bit of crunch.
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    Eight Pumpkin Pecan Scones sit on a white plate with mugs and spoons in the background.
    Squares of Cranberry Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake with cranberries and cinnamon sticks
    Cranberry Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake
    This Cranberry Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake. is easy, quick to make and loaded with everything for fall and for the holiday season, cranberries, pecans, and cinnamon in a sour cream coffee cake.
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    Best Cinnamon Crunch Rolls Recipe
    These really are the Best Cinnamon Crunch Rolls Recipe. Why? Because I've added a Cinnamon Crunch topping (think Cinnamon Crunch Bagels) which takes this way over the top! Combining these two makes a completely new and different roll that's easy to make for a very special Breakfast or Brunch.
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    A Cinnamon Crunch rolls sits on an antique plate rimmed in pink and gray with more rolls in the background.
    A plate of 6 Stuffed Buttermilk Scones on a blue rimmed plate with a multi colored napkin in the background.
    Cinnamon Filled Buttermilk Scones
    Think of these fantastic Cinnamon Filled Buttermilk Scones as sconewiches. Two currant scones are stuffed with a brown sugar and cinnamon filling (think cinnamon rolls) finished with a vanilla glaze. Much quicker than even Cinnamon Bread, these are the perfect touch of sweetness for the holidays.
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    Orange Macadamia Rolls
    This Orange Macadamia Rolls Recipe is not to be missed. A tender sour cream yeast dough encloses an orange macadamia filling that's finished with a coffee glaze. The amazing yeast dough goes together quickly and is one of the easiest I've every made. It's basically two steps - mix the liquids and yeast, then add the flour, mix and set it to rise. I can't imagine an easier yeast dough to make.
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    1. LuAnne Roberts says

      December 06, 2025 at 6:43 pm

      Please help me get these recipes to my inbox
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      • Helen S Fletcher says

        December 06, 2025 at 8:46 pm

        I'm not sure what the problem is. You evidently got it because you were able to post this.

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