Food Breakfast Rise & Shine Breakfast Breads By Midwest Living editors Midwest Living editors Midwest Living's experienced editors create best-in-class travel, lifestyle, food, home and garden content you won't find anywhere else. We're loudly, proudly Midwestern, and we're passionate about helping our audience explore and create through award-winning storytelling. Midwest Living's Editorial Guidelines Updated on January 21, 2023 Trending Videos Wake up your day with the warm scent of these good-morning temptations: baked doughnuts, jam-filled cake, gooey pull-apart rolls, moist muffins, tender scones and more. 01 of 20 Chocolate-Peanut Butter Baked Doughnuts These no-fry doughnuts are super chocolatey—a perfect match for your morning joe. For a twist, you can swap chocolate-hazelnut spread for the peanut butter in the glaze and top with finely chopped toasted hazelnuts. View Recipe 02 of 20 Fluffiest Cinnamon Rolls Because of the super buttery dough, these meltingly tender brioche buns hover on the line between pastry and bread. The recipe comes from Heritage Baking (Chronicle, $29.95), by Illinois bakery owner Ellen King. View Recipe 03 of 20 Fig and Pecan Scones Fig and Pecan Scones. Carson Downing Any dried fig variety (black, Mission or golden California figs) works in this tender, buttery recipe. Cutting scones into wedges is faster than rounds and means no wasted dough scraps. Simple Recipes for Tender, Buttery Scones View Recipe 04 of 20 Doughnut Bundt Carson Downing Nutmeg is the secret ingredient that makes this playful Bundt taste just like a cake doughnut. (Be sure to use freshly grated nutmeg—you'll really notice the difference in flavor.) View Recipe 05 of 20 Rosy Rhubarb, Raspberry and Cheese Danish Cameron Sadeghpour These beauties use frozen puff pastry for ease, but the filling has an optional fancy ingredient: rose water. It gives a lovely, floral je ne sais quoi to the punchy fruit. Favorite Rhubarb Recipes View Recipe 06 of 20 Crunchy Yogurt-Granola Upside-Down Cake No fruit here in this upside-down cake, just a brown sugary streusel-like layer of walnuts, coconut and granola baked under (then flipped over) a vanilla coffee cake. Our Best Brunch Recipes View Recipe 07 of 20 PBJ Strudel A super-simple braid of puff pastry holds a scrumptious filling of strawberries and sweetened peanut butter. Double-dare you not to pour a glass of cold milk. View Recipe 08 of 20 Overnight Cherry Chocolate Coffee Cake This is our give-you-a-break coffee cake. Prepped in a half-hour, it waits in the fridge till you pop it in the oven the next morning. Serve warm, and the chocolate stays irresistibly melty. View Recipe 09 of 20 Peanut Butter Breakfast Scones These energy-boosting scones pack a healthy amount of fiber and protein. And did we mention the peanut butter flavor? View Recipe 10 of 20 Caramel-Banana Muffins Sugar-topped banana slices caramelize as they bake on top of these tender, cakey breakfast muffins. Serve warm drizzled with extra caramel topping, if you like. Quick and Easy Muffin Recipes View Recipe 11 of 20 Jam Crumb Cake Spreadable fruit jam ribbons through this buttery crumb cake, sinking here and there for a marbled look. A generous crumb topping adds more flavor. Choose your favorite jam, strawberry or raspberry, for the recipe. View Recipe 12 of 20 Chocolanutty Banana Cake Dessert or coffee cake? It's up to you. A hint of orange rounds out the flavors. Easy Recipes to Make With Bananas View Recipe 13 of 20 Breakfast Monkey Bread Rolls Frozen or refrigerated cinnamon roll dough simplifies our recipe for Breakfast Monkey-Bread Rolls. Baking these rolls in muffin cups cleverly corrals their syrupy topping. View Recipe 14 of 20 Banana Bread Cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger flavor this moist banana bread. Make banana bread when your bananas get brown polka dots on them. 20 Sweet Quick Bread Loaves View Recipe 15 of 20 Breakfast Puffs These sweet treats can be found in nearly every Amish cookbook. Roll them in melted butter, cinnamon and sugar before serving. View Recipe 16 of 20 Apple-Cinnamon Pull-Apart Bread Biscuits, apples, orange juice? Sounds like breakfast to us. Orange juice adds brightness to both the bite-of-autumn bread and the cream cheese icing drizzle. View Recipe 17 of 20 Cinnamon Rolls In winter, let yeast dough rise in your unheated oven. The rolls will rise best at a temperature between 80° and 85° . The recipe, with its heady aroma of yeast and spice, comes from the Patchwork Quilt Country Inn near Middlebury, Indiana. 18 of 20 Sour Cream Cranberry Muffins Brown sugar, pecans and pumpkin pie spice create both a filling and the topping for these muffins. Dried cranberries add tang and texture. Cranberry Recipes You'll Love View Recipe 19 of 20 Cinnamon Surprise Buns These yeast rolls poof as they bake, hiding the filled center. Family or guests will love the spiced nut and brown sugar in the middle of these frosted treats. View Recipe 20 of 20 Blueberry Streusel Coffee Cake Plump blueberries create a juicy filling in this old-fashioned sour cream coffee cake from The White Gull Inn in Fish Creek on Wisconsin's Door County Peninsula. Favorite Brunch Recipes View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit