Wake & bake: Breakfast recipes you can make in your oven

If you’ve never baked any apples for breakfast, it’s time to turn over a new leaf with these apple turnovers from Sugar Spun Run. You’ll need to simmer the apple mixture on the stove at first, but the real magic happens in the oven after you prep each little pouch of deliciousness. Don’t forget the vanilla glaze on top!

Frittatas are egg-based breakfast dishes, but in this recipe from Sweet and Savory Meals, the real stars are the asparagus, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, and three types of cheese: cheddar, parmesan, and feta. You’ll also look like a star for making this frittata, even though you only needed to do 10 minutes of prep work!

If you want to eliminate both grease and the amount of time you spend standing over a stove, try making your bacon in the oven. It comes out perfectly crisp without you needing to stir, flip, or get burned by flying droplets of hot grease. Downshiftology has some tips.

Wait, you can make bagels in your own oven? (Is that even legal?!) With this recipe from Food.com, you’ll never need to worry about your local bagel shop running out of your favorite flavor. Just mix, knead, boil (only for about 45 seconds each), and bake.

There are three things we love about banana bread. First, it’s delicious (obviously). Second, it’s super easy to make (if you have ripe bananas, everything else should already be in your pantry or fridge). And the third thing we love is that magical phenomenon where the top of the banana bread continues to get more moist after taking it out of the oven. If you want to ensure No. 3 happens, use this recipe from Spend With Pennies.

We usually just zap our single-serving oatmeal in the microwave when we’re short on time, but when we have a looser schedule — and numerous hungry mouths to feed — we prefer the baked version. Specifically, this berry oatmeal bake from Food Network, which is naturally sweetened with both bananas and maple syrup. (But feel free to customize your ingredients!)

Homemade biscuits for breakfast? Sign us up, especially since these soft, flaky, from-scratch biscuits by Mom on Timeout can be mixed, rolled out, baked, and on your table in as little as 15 minutes.

All the ingredients for pizza — bread, cheese, tomatoes, cured meats — are already acceptable for breakfast, so technically all pizzas should be breakfast pizzas. But this pie prepared by Epicurious goes a few steps further and adds spinach, eggs, and even some cream. It also includes sausage, which you can nix for a vegetarian-friendly alternative.

Cake for breakfast seems odd, unless you add the words “coffee,” “pan,” “johnny,” or numerous other prefixes onto it. Layered with crumbly cinnamon streusel and topped with a little vanilla glaze, this version from Two Peas & Their Pod is worth permanently bookmarking.

You’ve probably eaten French toast before, and you’ve maybe even had French toast casserole, but we’re betting you’ve never tried this outstanding cream cheese French toast casserole from Sally’s Baking Addiction. True to the site’s name, the dish is baked for about 50 minutes, but the prep is much quicker. You’re basically just making French toast, but cutting up the bread and putting it in a dish — and adding a special crumb topping!

Fresh donuts at home with no frying or hot oil? Preppy Kitchen provides an oven-only recipe for donuts two ways: tossed in cinnamon and covered with frosting. (Just make sure to buy a donut pan first!)

Don’t let the cast-iron fool you — this Dutch baby from Once Upon a Chef is cooked entirely in the oven. As long as you have an oven-safe skillet, you too can make these thick, fluffy, fruit-covered pancakes. 

We’ve made Ahead of Thyme’s egg and potato casserole for the whole family, and everybody loved it. We’ve also added meat to the recipe and used it as a high-protein meal prep breakfast for the week. This means you can easily reheat the leftovers — but it’s so tasty, you might not have any!

We already make burritos for breakfast regularly, so why not enchiladas, too? These rolled tortillas from The Novice Chef are filled with egg, potato, and sausage (or chorizo). Although preparing the ingredients requires a skillet and food processor, the whole thing is covered in cheese, slathered in creamy salsa verde, and finished in the oven for 20 minutes.

This cheesy casserole courtesy of That Skinny Chick Can Bake consists of French or Italian bread with spinach and heaps of Gruyere and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses. After heating onion, butter, and spinach in a skillet, the mixture is combined with both cheeses in three separate layers. The whole thing is then baked until it turns golden — about 50 minutes. (You can also assemble this casserole the night before!)

To give your hash browns the perfect level of crisp, put them in the oven. (And don’t even think about using your microwave!) Salty Side Dish suggests mixing the shredded potatoes with cheese, onion, seasonings, and both butter and olive oil before baking.

Hot cross buns: easy to play on almost any instrument and easy to bake in almost any oven. This no-knead version from Recipe Tin Eats is especially simple and will have you digging into fluffy, sultana-filled buns in no time. (Or swap the sultanas for chocolate chips!)

We recently started incorporating more raspberries into our baking, including cookies, cakes, crisps, and even some breakfast items. If you’re rather fond of raspberries (and quick recipes!), try these lemon raspberry muffins from Broken Oven Baking.

Do you love the orange scones from Panera but don’t want to spend $4, drive all the way there, or even put on pants? Try this copycat recipe from The Fresh Cooky and you too can make perfectly baked scones topped with orange icing…as long as you have oranges, eggs, butter, heavy cream, and a few other staples from the pantry.

These puff pastry jam tarts from Sugar Salt Magic look (and taste!) like something you’d get at a fancy bakery, but not only can you make them in your own kitchen, but they’re easy, too! Your trip to the grocery store will also be quick, as you only need a pre-made puff pastry sheet, jam, an egg, and a sprinkle of powdered sugar.

Quiche Lorraine is a classic French tart that combines eggs, cream, and bacon or ham in a flaky crust. And if you use a store-bought crust (no judgments here) and this recipe from Once Upon a Chef, it’s also easy to make and bake…although there’s also a bit of skillet cooking involved.

It doesn’t matter if it’s St. Patrick’s Day or any other day, you shouldn’t settle for stale, store-bought soda bread. Instead, make it fresh at home the authentic way with this “real” Irish soda bread recipe from Serious Eats. The best part? (Other than the taste.) All you need is flour, salt, baking soda, and buttermilk…and a tall cast iron pan or Dutch oven.

We used to keep a tube of cinnamon rolls on hand for a quick breakfast, but the buns always came out too crispy, dry, or unevenly cooked. This recipe courtesy of The Regular Folks — and based on an incredibly popular TikTok video — suggests lining the bottom of the pan with cream; putting a sugar, butter, and cinnamon mixture on top before baking; and adding extra sugar, butter, vanilla, and milk to the icing packet. Yes, it’s making an already unhealthy breakfast even worse, but it’s ridiculously tasty, super moist, and has been our go-to recipe the last few times we’ve hosted guests for breakfast.