22 Cozy Breakfast Bakes to Warm Up Your Fall Mornings

For this quiche, we took the classic flavors of a bagel with lox and incorporated them into a beautifully delicate egg filling and Everything Bagel Pâte Brisée.

Infused with cozy spices and the warm essence of pumpkin, these Pumpkin Spice Bagels bring a delightful twist to your breakfast table. Soft, chewy, and topped with an irresistible Oat Cinnamon Sugar blend, they capture the best flavors of fall in every bite. Enjoy these homemade beauties toasted with a generous smear of spiced cream cheese for an indulgent autumnal treat. Perfect for cozy mornings and holiday gatherings alike!

Our Everything Morning Bun goes to the savory side of breakfast pastry, pairing crispy laminated texture with the umami-rich flavor blend of everything seasoning, sharp Cheddar, and cream cheese associated with the bagel. It’s the mash-up you never knew you needed.

Brought to the US by Polish Jewish immigrants in the 1800s, the bialy is now a Northeastern Jewish bakery staple most often compared to bagels. But unlike the bagel, bialys are round with an indent, not rings, and baked without boiling. We kept things classic with a seasoned Caramelized Onion Filling surrounded by pillowy-soft dough sprinkled with sesame and poppy seeds in these Onion-Poppy Seed Bialys. Though these beauties are delicious slathered with butter or cream cheese, they’re an absolute treat served fresh from the oven, too.

Like the more familiar cinnamon raisin flavor, only with a richer, spicier chai twist. The secret to this bagel is that it lets the raisins bring the sweetness—no sugar added.

Creamy and jammy, this is the classic Danish recipe that all bakers need in their repertoire. Use any jam of your choice, and you can also freeze half of the dough and make small batches of Danish.

Breakfast sausage and pockets of melted cheddar make this savory round the unquestionable star of the breakfast table. With flaky pull-apart layers that are perfect for sharing, this is the recipe your weekend brunch has been waiting for.

It’s a callback to the cinnamon sugar-packed original but done one better. With our Danish Dough base and brown sugar and cinnamon filling, there was only one thing missing from these Cinnamon Sugar Morning Buns: crunchy, toasted pecans.

Maximum flavor and a soft texture for days were our top goals for this bread, and we more than succeeded. In addition to the fragrant blend of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves that comprises pumpkin pie spice, a pinch of black pepper adds a faintly lingering touch of heat. Dark brown sugar’s higher molasses content brings a caramelly depth of flavor and moisture, and vanilla extract adds floral sweetness. Using oil rather than butter lets the pumpkin flavor shine while keeping the crumb tender; plus, it helps create the cracked dome on top, the instantly recognizable sign of a quick bread.

These Bacon Cheddar Poppy Seed Muffins will satisfy all of your savory breakfast cravings. 

Oven-roasted mushrooms and garlic are incorporated into this eggy delight to create an earthy, aromatic quiche. A pinch of ground white pepper adds a little sharpness to the filling while finely chopped pecans add to the rich, buttery taste of the pâte brisée. Altogether, this quiche is pure comfort.

A double dose of apple (from fresh apples and cider) fills these Apple Danish Braids with a warm and lightly spiced flavor.

Hazelnut and almond flours give this gluten-free banana bread a complex, earthy flavor. We love the addition of chopped hazelnuts, in lieu of pecans or walnuts, for a twist on the original.

Our gingerbread morning buns are the perfect holiday breakfast! We were obsessed with The Vanilla Bean Blog creator Sarah Kieffer’s brilliant idea to bake her cinnamon buns in copper soufflé molds. The copper’s superior conductive quality helps caramelize the sugary filling and produces perfect scrolls of pastry.

Eggs are cooked directly on the dough during the final stages of baking to make this incredible brunch-ready Bacon and Egg Focaccia.

Apple picking may be fun, but let’s be honest about what really takes us to the apple orchard every year. It’s the small shack serving up freshly fried apple cider doughnuts and cups of deep amber-hued apple cider. Fresh out of the fryer, the doughnuts are piping hot and probably not entirely safe to consume just yet, but the temptation to take a bite into that pillowy, cinnamon-scented ring is irresistible. With this recipe for Spiced Apple Cider Doughnuts, you can recreate that quintessential fall experience in the comfort of your own home.

These soft sweet potato-packed muffins are complemented by a crunchy oat and walnut streusel while the sweet heat of cinnamon and nutmeg add a cozy level of spice.

Give your go-to cinnamon rolls a break. These fluffy Cherry Breakfast Rolls taste like the breakfast version of cherry pie.