For the Best Christmas Morning Ever, Bake These Breakfast Roll Recipes (2024)

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Draw your family from their slumber on Christmas morning with the smell of freshly baked sweet rolls wafting through the air. Recipes for sticky buns with pecans, all stripes of cinnamon rolls, or St. Lucia buns make Christmas breakfast extra special.

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Rachel Knecht

Rachel Knecht

Rachel Knecht turned her home baking into a career in 2016 when she began working as the head baker at The Greenbean Coffeehouse in Seattle, WA. Afterwards, she started Baking with Rachel (her blog), began teaching kids' cooking classes, and recipe tested for the cookbook "Let's Stay In" by Ashley Rodriguez.

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Sara is a chef, culinary educator, and author of three cookbooks, The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook, Tasting Ohio and The Fruit Forager's Companion. The latter won a 2019 IACP Cookbook Award.

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Updated November 15, 2022

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For the Best Christmas Morning Ever, Bake These Breakfast Roll Recipes (1)

Decadent and packed full of love, homemade breakfast rolls are the perfect way to start off Christmas morning. The smell of freshly baked rolls is enough to lure the family out of bed or (for the early and ambitious risers) away from their new gifts and over to the table.

Many of these rolls are yeasted, but you can start them the night before and let them rise overnight. Finish them up the next morning and enjoy! If you’re not an early riser you can still enjoy breakfast rolls. Open a few presents to distract yourself while these perfect rolls rise and bake. No matter which sweet roll you choose, your loved ones will be delighted.

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