Mother’s Day brunch is a classic for a reason, but staying in for a late homemade breakfast can be just as celebratory and special. Below, we’re sharing some of our top recipes, with a range of cuisines, difficulty level, and sweetness for you to choose from.
Savory Breakfast Recipes
While sweet breakfasts have their time and place, let’s not forget savory in the mix. From cheesy to eggy to umami, these chef-created savory breakfast recipes are perfect for moms who prefer salt over sugar in the morning.
Brioche Tart
Servings: 8–12
Time: 9 hours
Difficulty: Hard
First up: something novel for your breakfast table. This recipe from Chef Derrick Flynn of Este in Austin begins with an enriched yeasted dough and ends with a chèvre-mushroom cream, roasted potatoes, more mushrooms, and a sprinkling of quesillo, all layered in a Baking Slab.
Almost as novel as the all-day Brioche Tart itself, the Baking Slab is a new kind of Bakeware designed with and for Chef Nancy Silverton. It’s great for slab pies, but this recipe demonstrates its true versatility. And while this particular tart is definitely a labor of love, on Mother’s Day that’s kind of the point.
Easy Fritatta
Servings: 4
Time: 40 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Regardless of whether you associate fritattas with breakfast or dinner, the fact remains that this is an incredibly easy dish that can be assembled with even the barest of fridges. This version utilizes a classic combination of veg and goat cheese, but feel free use this as a guide rather than a hard and fast recipe to follow. Use whichever flavor combinations you enjoy (or have readily available).
Good news for late risers on Mother's Day morning: most of the work for this frittata is done in the oven, with minimal dishes to clean up afterwards thanks to our easy-to-clean, oven-safe Non Stick Frying Pan.
Chilaquiles
Servings: 2–4
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
This recipe for a traditional, delicious Mexican breakfast consisting of fried corn tortillas topped with cheese comes to us from friend, collaborator, and Chef of Austin’s Suerte and Este, Fermín Nuñez. While Chef’s recipe doesn’t include a fried egg, feel free to add one (preferably cooked over easy) to mix the yolk with the creamy tomato and chile piquin sauce for a truly transformative bite. A Saucier is an essential here, serving double-duty to both fry the tortilla strips and later coat them in sauce.
Huevos Rancheros with Salsa Verde
Servings: 1, but easily multiplied
Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
One of the simplest recipes on this list is also the most rewarding, with plenty of modifications available to make it even easier. Chef Yara Herrera’s recipe for salsa verde is more than worth taking the time to make, but you can always use store bought. From there it’s just a matter of scrambling eggs, assembling each plate, and being shocked at how simple cleanup is thanks to Non Stick.
Chefs and home cooks alike use this professional-grade Non Stick for everything from searing to sautéing, but its most obvious selling point is the ease with which it cooks delicate proteins like eggs and fish. The recipe serves one, but with some basic math you can scale it up to serve everyone.
Sweet Breakfast Recipes
From cinnamon to powdered sugar, sweet is synonymous with breakfast for special occasions. The following chef-created breakfast recipes are all perfect for moms with a sweet tooth, kids who prefer extra syrup, or brunch gatherings where no table is complete without a dessert disguised as breakfast.
Apple Cider Donuts
Servings: 12
Time: 4 hours
Difficulty: Medium
It has been suggested that Apple Cider Donuts are a seasonal dish, and it is sacrilege to serve them outside the months of October, November, or December. All due respect, but no—and Chef Audrey Schieb of Austin’s The Salty Donut would agree. As long as you can find good apple cider—and that “good” really is important here—there’s no reason to deny yourself one of the greatest pleasures on earth: fresh apple cider donuts, golden brown and freshly emerged from a Dutch Oven, and drenched in a chai spiced glaze.
There’s certainly no need to deny your mom, either—if there’s ever a time to go through the rigamarole of deep fat frying, it’s to celebrate her, right?
Caramelized Banana Pancake with Whipped Cream
Servings: 6–8
Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Medium
Dessert-for-breakfast truthers, this one's for you. More akin to a banana upside-down cake than the diner staple, this recipe is a long-standing family favorite of Dustin Valette, Chef-Owner of The Matheson and Valette in Healdsburg, CA, and after one bite you'll understand why.
We think an oven-safe Non Stick Pan—ours is safe up to 500F—is an essential all the time, but particularly for this recipe: first to create a foolproof and stick-proof caramel, then to bake the pancake, which is then inverted atop a large plate to serve. Chef Valette recommends selecting your desired Serving Platter before you start cooking to avoid a last-minute scramble with a hot pan. And, since our Non Stick features multiple layers of professional-grade coating, cleanup is a cinch afterwards—great news for whoever gets dish duty.
Bourbon Sticky Buns
Servings: 12
Time: 3 hours
Difficulty: Medium
Everyone loves pastries, but no one really wants to be the person to fetch them on a weekend morning—especially on a holiday.
This recipe from Chef and Baker Elise Smith features a make-ahead dough, so you can still keep Mother’s Day a leisurely affair while indulging in some fresh-baked buns. These are a straightforward take on a classic, with a quick maple-bourbon caramel and a cinnamon-nutmeg spiced filling. Prepared in a 9x13 Baking Dish, you’ll be sure to have leftovers for a few special weekday breakfasts.
Lemon Blueberry Pancakes
Servings: 4
Time: 35 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
A breakfast staple, these lemon blueberry pancakes from Rhoda Boone, Creative Culinary Director of the Made In Studio, are just as fluffy as your favorite box mix, take just as little time to assemble, and are easy enough for little ones to assist with. The Carbon Steel Griddle makes cooking these and a side of bacon or sausages easy, and lends a diner-style feel without the need to change out of your pajamas.
Pineapple Dutch Baby
Servings: 4
Time: 45 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Courtesy of Chef Brooke Williamson, this tasty, tropical take on the Dutch baby is like a vacation in a bite. A slightly more elevated (but nevertheless simple to put together) version of the pancake, Dutch babies are assembled and cooked in one pan—making this the perfect recipe to break out an oven-safe Non Stick Pan or naturally non stick Enameled Cast Iron Skillet.
Stovetop Jam
Servings: 64
Time: 15 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Homemade jam does not get the respect it deserves—not only is it a cinch to pull together (about 15 minutes!) but it also concentrates and intensifies the flavors of the fruit you use. Because you’re able to modify the amount of sugar, you can ensure that the resulting preserves actually taste like fruit they’re made from—or whatever add-ins you feel like. Even if all you do is whip up some eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, or prefab biscuits, homemade jam is one of those small luxuries that instantly makes everything feel a bit more pampered.
The classic choice is to make jam in a Copper Saucier, which has a heightened conductivity so you can rapidly simmer the preserves without imparting a “cooked” flavor, but our Stainless Clad option will work just about as well.
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Whether your mom has a sweet tooth, prefers savory breakfasts, or is more excited about the cocktail served alongside it, the perfect Mother’s Day brunch is somewhere on this list.
While you figure out the exact menu, we've got one more idea: why not gift your mom breakfast in bed and professional-grade cookware used to prepare it?
