Healthy Christmas and Advent breakfast ideas

A healthy Christmas breakfast brings festive flavours like cinnamon, gingerbread spice and orange together with oats, wholemeal spelt, quark and nuts. Here you’ll find porridge, pancakes, granola, cinnamon rolls and yeasted bakes, sweetened with honey, dates or coconut sugar instead of refined sugar. Lots of it you can get ready the night before.

All Christmas breakfast recipes

• High-protein cinnamon roll porridge with skyr frosting – 498 kcal
• Vegan almond rice pudding with cherries for Christmas breakfast – 333 kcal
• High-protein salmon bagels for Christmas breakfast – 415 kcal
• Christmas French toast with cinnamon yoghurt and pomegranate – 531 kcal
• High-protein speculoos porridge with quark and almonds – 432 kcal
• Raisin buns with quark for an Advent breakfast – 274 kcal
• Spelt plaited loaf with honey and almonds – 249 kcal
• Butter stollen with raisins, almonds and orange zest – 329 kcal
• Baked apple porridge with caramelised nuts – 662 kcal
• High-protein stollen muffins with low-fat quark – 336 kcal
• High-protein gingerbread pancakes with quark and cinnamon plums – 410 kcal
• High-protein gingerbread baked porridge with quark and oranges – 476 kcal
• Vegetarian poppy seed stollen with dates and spelt – 332 kcal
• Gluten-free millet stollen porridge with raisins and almonds – 477 kcal
• Vegan Christmas granola with pecans and orange zest – 258 kcal
• Saffron buns (Lussekatter) for Advent breakfast – 243 kcal
• Pumpkin cinnamon rolls with cream cheese and honey frosting – 251 kcal
• Vegan yeasted star bread with hazelnut and date filling – 306 kcal
• Lebkuchen muffins with spelt and apple – 252 kcal
• Keto Brussels sprout frittata with Alpine cheese for Christmas breakfast – 449 kcal
• Vegan stollen with apricots, walnuts and spelt – 327 kcal
• Vegan cinnamon rolls with apple and walnut filling – 264 kcal
• Spelt Stutenkerle (sweet bread men) with raisins – 337 kcal
• Paleo gingerbread granola with hazelnuts and coconut chips – 313 kcal

Frequently asked questions

What can I make ahead for Christmas breakfast?

Make overnight oats, granola and fruit loaf the day before. Yeast dough for cinnamon rolls or the star bread can rise overnight in the fridge – in the morning, just shape and bake.

What makes a healthy Christmas breakfast?

Something with protein such as quark, yoghurt or eggs, a wholegrain part like oats or spelt bread, and seasonal fruit – apples, pears, oranges. Add a small portion of something festive from the oven.

Related ideas

• Healthy Christmas cookies and festive baking
• Healthy Christmas dinner: starter, main and dessert
• Healthy finger food for New Year’s Eve and parties
• Porridge recipes: a warm start to the day
• Alcohol-free punch, kids’ punch and hot winter drinks
• Bake stollen with no refined sugar
• Air fryer baking: cookies, muffins and cakes
• Pancakes, crêpes and Kaiserschmarrn
• Bake your own bread and rolls

Plan and calculate

• Christmas menu planner: 3 days with a shopping list
• What’s in season in Germany in December?
• Seasonal calendar for Germany