Breakfast potlucks can be a challenge. You need finger foods, things that are easily transportable, and recipes that can be reheated in a microwave. Over the years we've had a lot of breakfast potlucks at work, so I've come up with many of my own breakfast recipes for a potluck. But for this post, I have also rallied my fellow food bloggers to bring you even more fantastic breakfast ideas! Here are 35 Breakfast Potluck ideas to choose from.
I have everything from pancakes to breakfast casseroles and healthier breakfasts, that are also on the lighter side, as well as breakfast recipes that are a little more indulgent. There are also some unexpected breakfast potluck ideas (HELLO breakfast soup! )These breakfast ideas are great for any time of the year and are ideal for bringing along to a potluck brunch or breakfast.
Breakfast Potluck Recipes
Sweet Breakfast Potluck Ideas
Sheet Pan Chocolate Chip Pancakes
These Sheet Pan Chocolate Chip Pancakes aren't your usual chocolate chip pancakes. This is the easy way to make pancakes and they bake up light and fluffy! There is no flipping required - just pour and bake! You can make 12 pancakes at once so they're perfect for feeding a crowd
Check out this Sheet Pan Chocolate Chip Pancake recipe
📋 Watermelon Granola Trifle Recipe
This show-stopping Watermelon Granola Trifle boasts layers of watermelon, chopped strawberries and mango, toasted coconut, vanilla yogurt and almond granola, topped with candied citrus and more toasted coconut ! It's the ideal healthy alternative to your typical dessert trifle, made with cake and pudding and the perfect breakfast or dessert or breakfast dessert for any season and every type of gathering.
Check out this Watermelon Granola Trifle Recipe
📋 Raspberry Lemon Scones Recipe
These tender and flaky raspberry lemon scones are made without buttermilk. With a hint of licorice and the perfect balance of sweet and tart, they make a great breakfast or brunch dish and are wonderful for taking along to a potluck!
Check out this Raspberry Lemon Scones recipe
Baked Oatmeal Cups Filled with Yogurt
Baked Oatmeal cups are easy to make with simple, wholesome ingredients. Fill them with fruit and yogurt for a healthy grab and go breakfast!
Check out this Oatmeal Cups with yogurt recipe
📋 Apple Walnut Bread (with Brown Butter Glaze) Recipe
Celebrate the flavors of fall with this Apple Walnut Bread (with Brown Butter Glaze)! This apple bread is a healthy, moist and delicious loaf with walnuts, cinnamon, coconut and prunes. It makes a great snack, dessert (it's like an apple loaf cake) is perfect for packing along in the lunch bag and even enjoying as a breakfast loaf!
Check out this Apple Bread recipe
Slow Cooker Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Overnight Oats
Chocolate chip cookie dough overnight oatmeal is the ultimate breakfast slow cooker recipe. Picky eaters and health nuts alike will love this perfect meal. Wake up to the smell of freshly baked cookies!!
Check out this Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Overnight Oats recipe
📋 Baileys French Toast Casserole Recipe
This Baileys Irish Cream French Toast Casserole is an overnight casserole that's the perfect St. Patrick's day breakfast or brunch dish for any holiday or potluck. This Bailey's French Toast can also be made non-alcoholic (substitute included).
Check out this Baileys French Toast Casserole recipe
📋Old Fashioned Fruit Salad Recipe (with honey lime dressing)
This Old Fashioned Fruit Salad is easy to make and the crushed pineapple makes it unique, while the honey lime dressing elevates it to a whole other level of deliciousness! This classic fruit salad is made with strawberries, pears, grapes, kiwi, oranges, cantaloupe, with fresh or canned peaches and makes a great side brunch or breakfast fruit salad!
Check out this Fruit Salad recipe
📋 Brown Sugar Cinnamon Swirl Bread Recipe (with Lemon Glaze)
This Brown Sugar Cinnamon Swirl Bread tastes like cinnamon buns but without all the work! It's a quick bread so it has no yeast and uses shortening instead of butter. With a simple lemon glaze that adds a welcome zip, it strikes the perfect balance of sweet and tart.
Check out this Cinnamon Swirl Bread recipe
Carrot Cake Doughnut Muffin Recipe
A gourmet glazed doughnut muffin with jam Mascarpone filling, orange mocha glaze and candied carrots. Fancier than your typical muffin or doughnut, but easy to make and tastes like carrot cake. This sweet recipe is perfect for Easter, Mother's day or your next brunch or breakfast potluck!
Check out this Carrot Cake Doughnut Muffin
📋 Brown Butter Pecan Granola Recipe
This award-winning healthy Brown Butter Pecan Granola gets its nice caramel flavor from the brown butter, is chock-full of healthy stuff like sunflower seeds, honey oats, wheat germ, sesame seeds, chia, and coconut, minus the preservatives. This homemade granola doesn't take long to make and is the perfect busy morning breakfast!
Check out this Pecan Granola recipe
📋 Blueberry Cornbread Recipe
Cornbread is elevated to an entirely new level by adding frozen blueberries and lemon zest to the batter ! It's great for the kids' (or adults) lunch box for a morning snack/breakfast or dessert!
Check out this Blueberry Cornbread recipe
Healthy Morning Glory Muffins
These Healthy Morning Glory Muffins are chock-full of wholesome ingredients like whole wheat flour, unsweetened apple sauce, carrots, coconut, orange, walnuts, and sunflower seeds! This healthy recipe is the perfect on-the- go breakfast, snack and ideal for packing along in the lunch box!
Check out these Morning Glory Muffins
📋 Chocolate Marble Biscotti Recipe
This Chocolate Marble Biscotti has both chocolate and vanilla flavors mixed together (marbled) in one delicious cookie. It makes the perfect 'breakfast dessert' and is great for taking along to a breakfast potluck! They are also Weight Watchers friendly.
Check out this Marble Biscotti recipe
Carrot Cake Overnight French Toast Casserole
This easy Carrot Cake Overnight French Toast Casserole is made with healthy eggs, pineapple, walnuts and pureed carrots (in the form of baby food so it's quick and easy to make) but still tastes like you're eating carrot cake for breakfast! It's a crowd favorite and the perfect french toast bake for your breakfast Potluck!
Check out this Carrot Cake French Toast Casserole
Savory Breakfast Potluck Ideas
📋 Maple Sausage Brunch Bites Recipe
If you are looking for breakfast or brunch potluck ideas, this Potatoes Romanoff inspired award-winning Maple Sausage Brunch Bites breakfast dish, made with hashbrowns, sour cream, cheese, onions and maple sausage, is the perfect solution! It's make-ahead, portable, finger food that's easy to reheat!
Check out this Brunch Bites recipe
Easy Dairy-free Frittata
This savory breakfast potluck idea is easy, healthy, and filled with vegetables. This Dairy-free Frittata will be your favorite brunch recipe! It’s delicious and high in protein.
Check out this Dairy-free Frittata recipe
📋 Pierogi Breakfast Casserole (with frozen pierogies) Recipe
This Pierogi Breakfast Casserole is the ultimate lazy perogy casserole made with frozen perogies. Make-ahead and chock-full of yummy perogies and breakfast things like cheese, eggs, dill, sauerkraut, bacon bits and onions, it's the perfect breakfast potluck dish because everyone loves perogies!
Check out this Perogy Breakfast Casserole recipe
Savory Breakfast Hand Pies
Savory breakfast hand pies are portable, making them ideal for a potluck. They can be made in advance for an easy grab and go breakfast that will start your day off right!
Check out this Savory Hand Pies recipe
📋 Air Fryer Turkey Sausage Recipe
Air Fryer Turkey Sausages are a quicker, easier and healthier way to cook turkey sausage. They are also Weight Watchers friendly. You can also cook a lot at once with little clean up.
Check out this Air Fryer Turkey Sausage recipe
Slow Cooker Breakfast Soup
This Slow Cooker Breakfast Soup is a savory, slightly sweet soup studded with breakfast sausage, potatoes, and tomatoes before being topped with fluffy scrambled eggs and crisp, crumbled bacon. It’s sure to make any morning a good one!
Check out this Breakfast Soup Recipe
Sweet Potato Corn Hash
Made with sweet potatoes and corn, this hash is a tasty and healthy savoury breakfast or brunch and perfect for the weekend.
Check out this Sweet Potato Corn Hash Recipe
Oven-Baked Spanish Tortilla
Unlike the Mexican tortilla, a Spanish tortilla (also known as a Spanish omelet) is a dish by itself. The classic version is made with potatoes, onions and eggs while this Oven-Baked Spanish Tortilla gets kicked up with bell peppers, garlic, Manchego cheese, tanginess from sour cream and a touch of heat from red pepper flakes.
Check out this Spanish Omelet recipe
Overnight Eggs Benedict Casserole with Creamy Hollandaise
This Overnight Eggs Benedict Casserole is perfect for brunch because you prepare it all the night before and just bake it in the morning.
Check out this Eggs Benedict Casserole
School Breakfast Pizza (4-Ingredient)
Our school breakfast pizza recipe is an easy recipe and making it is a great way to get your kids to eat a filling breakfast. Trust me when I say you will love this recipe as much as your kids do.
Check out this School Breakfast Pizza recipe
Breakfast Sliders
These Hawaiian Roll Breakfast Sliders are egg sandwiches loaded with bacon, green onions, sausage and cheddar, brushed with a maple butter topping.
Check out this Breakfast Sliders recipe
Breakfast Enchilada Casserole
Cheesy Breakfast Enchilada Casserole is an easy breakfast casserole layered with breakfast and Mexican ingredients and a great way to enjoy breakfast enchiladas. You’ll want to eat it for EVERY meal!
Check out this Breakfast Enchilada Casserole recipe
📋 Ukrainian Breakfast Hash Recipe
Easy Ukrainian-style breakfast hash using leftover (or microwaved) potatoes with sauerkraut, kubassa/kielbasa, dill and dry cottage cheese. Eggs are optional. Perfect for your next brunch or breakfast potluck!
Check out this Ukrainian Hash recipe
Muffin Tin Omelets (with Prosciutto, Feta, and Spinach)
These Muffin Tin Omelets packed with prosciutto, mushrooms, feta, and veggies make a perfect make-ahead breakfast for the week! These egg muffins are both easy and quick to make!
Check out this Muffin Tin Omelets recipe
📋 Potatoes Romanoff Recipe
This Potatoes Romanoff Recipe (aka Hash brown Casserole) is not only classic comfort food, it's the ultimate potluck dish. Made with frozen hash browns, low-fat sour cream, cheddar cheese and mushroom soup, it's a little lighter than the usual, but delivers on taste! It can also be made in a slow cooker.
Check out this Potatoes Romanoff Hash brown Casserole recipe
Semi-homemade Breakfast Potluck ideas
If you are looking for very easy breakfast potluck ideas, semi-homemade is the way to go!
📋 French Toast Pigs in a Blanket Recipe
These French Toast Pigs in a Blanket are fun, fast, and easy! Made with Pillsbury wiener wraps, it's a breakfast finger food you can make-ahead and leave out for the kids to munch on. These Breakfast Pigs in a blanket are perfect for your next family or work breakfast or brunch potluck!
Check out this Breakfast Pigs in a Blanket recipe
📋 Raspberry Mocha Cinnamon Roll Lasagna Recipe
This Raspberry Mocha Cinnamon Roll Lasagna is a quick and easy breakfast/brunch potluck recipe or dessert lasagna made with store-bought refrigerator cinnamon rolls and icing (so there is no waste), whipped cream and frozen raspberries. This delicious breakfast lasagna is a unique and tasty Pillsbury cinnamon rolls recipe!
Check out this Cinnamon Roll Lasagna recipe
DIY Ultimate Bagel Bar Brunch
This DIY Ultimate Bagel Bar Brunch is a super easy budget friendly idea for hosting a breakfast or brunch with friends or family, or bringing along to a potluck, in under 30 minutes.
Check out this DIY Bagel Bar
Cinnamon Overnight Sticky Buns
These Cinnamon Overnight Sticky Buns, adapted from The Land of Nod Cinnamon Buns, use frozen dinner rolls and are prepped the night before. They are baked in the morning so they are a quick and easy breakfast the next day. Similar to monkey bread, they are perfect for bringing along to a breakfast potluck!
Check out this Overnight Cinnamon Sticky Buns recipe
📋 Mini Strawberry Tiramisu Éclairs Recipe
Ready in 20 minutes, these NO BAKE Strawberry Tiramisu Mini Éclairs (Cheater Éclairs) taste just like eclairs but without the baking, making them the ultimate summer snack! They are also great for a last minute potluck dessert or bake sale.
Check out this Cheater Mini Eclairs recipe
BONUS: Easy Store-bought Breakfast Potluck Ideas
Not everyone has the time or desire to cook, so here are some additional easy ideas/items you can pick up at the grocery store:
- Greek yogurt with topping (store-bought granola), fruit and nuts, seeds etc..
- Pastries- grocery store or bakery- scones, cinnamon buns etc.
- Fresh fruit platter
- Instant Oatmeal -bring topping like berries, chocolate chips, dried fruits, etc..
- Frozen breakfast burritos
- Frozen waffles with toppings such as berries, maple syrup, and whipped cream
- Frozen pre-cooked hashbrowns
- Frozen breakfast pizza
*You can dress up store-bought foods by placing them in attractive dishes and adding your own garnish or arrangement.
👪 Serving Size
Each recipe will show the number of servings. However, most recipe cards have adjustable servings (all of mine do) so you can double or triple the recipe by clicking on the serving number and selecting the number of servings you'd like. The ingredient quantities will automatically adjust.
🍽Equipment
Many recipes call for a 9X13 baking pan , so it's a good staple to have around. I like the ones with the lid, especially for transporting to a potluck. You can also buy a glass 9X13 pans with a lid, which I find very handy for so many baked dishes and desserts! Casserole dishes, in a variety of sizes, are also useful to have on hand!
I also recommend this instant-read thermometer (affiliate link) -it's a game changer! No more cutting into your food, guessing or hoping it's done. This is especially important when you are cooking for a crowd!
- But it's more than just a meat thermometer! I use my Thermapen for everything from baking pie and bread to eggs, casseroles, candy making, and more!
- This amazing little tool instantly and accurately measures temperature with a quick poke.
- It's not just for the grill either, it's the go-to kitchen instrument trusted by the world's most acclaimed chefs and BBQ champions (it's one of Alton Brown's 'favorite things')!
- And it comes with a handy little chart that gives you chef-recommended temperatures, as well as the minimum done temps for food safety.
So if you are looking for breakfast food for your next potluck breakfast, you'll love these crowd-pleasing dishes!
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