Make a delicious (and easy) meal for mom with these favorite Mother’s Day Brunch ideas. Each can be made in less than 30 minutes and most are easy enough for the kids to help make them, too!
Mother’s Day Brunch Ideas
I hope that every mother (or care provider, actually) has the chance to feel properly appreciated and celebrated throughout the year. And even more so on special holidays. These recipe ideas are some of my favorite ways to celebrate at the table with delicious flavors and easy methods.
These Mother’s Day Brunch ideas can all be shared with the kids, too, as I know that this holiday is often one that we spend together with our families.
These recipes can be used for breakfast or brunch, and there are a handful of dessert ideas in the mix, too, to round things out. The vast majority of them can even be made as make-ahead breakfasts to help make it possible for whomever is doing the cooking to pull off the prep work.
There are egg recipes, easy muffins, a favorite baked donut, yogurt ideas, easy puddings, and cookies. Pair with your favorite cup of hot coffee for a meal you will, I dearly hope, be able to enjoy from start to finish without interruption.
If you want recipes for kids to cook, that post has more ideas, too.
(You may also like my Favorite Kitchen Gifts, Essential Baking Ingredients, Easy Weeknight Family Dinners, and my Kitchen Essentials.)
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Our favorite type of menu for Mother’s Day (or any special holiday brunch) is one that includes a few easy, but delicious foods such as eggs (or egg muffins), a baked good like muffins or quick bread, fresh fruit, some yogurt, and delicious drinks.
You can make it more complex or simpler as you like and have energy for. And also adjust for food allergies or intolerances.
These recipes below are my absolute favorites to celebrate moms.
Bacon and Egg Muffins
This muffin tin Egg Muffin with Bacon, Egg, and Cheese is a perfect brunch dish—or breakfast for any day of the week—because it has everything you want from classic breakfast flavors in one convenient package.
I like adding the thyme in these for extra flavor, but it’s optional! Be sure to grease your muffin tin well with nonstick spray to help prevent these from sticking to the pan. A nonstick mini muffin pan works best here.
Easy Bacon and Egg Muffins
Berry Breakfast Cake
Cake for breakfast? Sign all the moms up!
Bursting with fresh berry flavor, this easy Breakfast Cake is so tender from a base of yogurt and ripe banana. It’s the most delicious breakfast (or snack—or dessert) to share with the kids. Plus: It’s so easy to make!
Berry Breakfast Cake
Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Bake a batch of these healthy Lemon Blueberry Muffins for a family breakfast that’s bursting with flavor. They’re less sweet, are packed with berries, and are simple to stir together!
Bake a batch of these Lemon Blueberry Muffins for a family breakfast that’s bursting with flavor. They’re packed with berries and are so simple to stir together! Serve these warm, at room temperature or cold.
Favorite Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Yogurt Muffins
With a base recipe that bakes up perfectly fluffy and just-sweet-enough muffins, and 6 options to add flavors from fruit, veggies, spices, and chocolate chips, this Yogurt Muffin recipe is as versatile as it is delicious.
This is an epic of a basic muffin recipe that you can then add flavor to in all sorts of ways—from fruit to veggies to chocolate chips. The batter is packed with protein too, so the muffins are great for breakfast or snack. (The allergy-friendly substitutions are listed in the Notes section at the bottom.)
Favorite Yogurt Muffins
Chocolate Chip Muffins
I love a classic muffin recipe and adding more nutrition without sacrificing texture or flavor. And these healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins are a great staple recipe to make again and again for the family.
Loaded with whole grains and protein, these healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins are a really great standard recipe to turn to whenever you’re in the mood!
Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins
Fluffy Almond Flour Muffins
Super fluffy and easy to customize for your family, these protein-packed muffins are as nutritious as they are delicious. (They freeze well, too.)
Made with nutrient-dense but straightforward ingredients, these Almond Flour Muffins are an easy breakfast to share with the kids. And you can make them in almost any flavor to customize for your family’s preferences—either with one add-in for the entire batch, or stir a little diced fruit or chocolate chips into each muffin cup for a mixed batch.
Fluffy Almond Flour Muffins
Yogurt Pancakes
Pair these fluffy pancakes–which you can make in any fruit flavor mom likes—with a side of fruit and coffee for a satisfying Mother’s Day brunch option.
With just a few ingredients and the option to make these on the stove top or in the oven as a sheet pan pancakes, these Yogurt Pancakes are versatile and so yummy!
Favorite Yogurt Pancakes
Banana French Toast Sticks
Make a batch of these super yummy French Toast Sticks to share with the kids. It’s so much easier to bake French Toast, rather than standing by the stove flipping each slice, and the leftovers store so well for future meals.
You can use any sliced bread that you like. I typically use whole grain or sourdough. You can also bake full slices of bread, then cut into sticks with kitchen scissors. See Notes for allergy-substitutions.
Baked Banana French Toast Sticks
Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt
Learn how to make the best fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt with all kinds of fruit flavors—and with less sugar and for less money than buying it at the store. This is a yummy way to flavor yogurt for kids and babies.
Learn how to make the best fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt with all kinds of fruit flavors—and with less sugar and for less money than buying it at the store. Scale this up or down according to how many servings you’re planning to make. The directions here are for one small toddler-size serving.
Easy Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt
Raspberry Lemon Baked Doughnuts
With simple ingredients and fresh flavors, these Raspberry-Lemon Baked Doughnuts are a fun breakfast for a holiday…or any day. They’re easy to stir together and have the brightest fruit flavor!
Baked Raspberry Donuts
Yogurt Parfaits
Change up your standard breakfast foods with these healthy (and FUN!) Yogurt Parfaits. These ten flavor combinations are simple, nutritious, and endlessly versatile—and are filled with a balanced mix of protein, probiotics, complex carbohydrates and fruit.
Try serving these parfaits for a fun breakfast or snack. Adjust the amount as needed for your child.
Quick Yogurt Parfaits
Coconut Chia Pudding
Transform simple ingredients into nutrition-packed Coconut Chia Pudding. It’s a perfect kid’s breakfast or snack that parents will enjoy too. This is an easy Mother’s Day recipe to prep ahead and pull out of the fridge come morning.
I like to use canned full-fat coconut milk for the best flavor and creamy texture, though you can use “light” coconut milk if that’s what you can find at your store.
Favorite Coconut Chia Pudding
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookie Cake
Celebrate a special occasion (or just a random day!), with this yummy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookie Cake recipe. It’s basically a giant cookie that bakes up so easily in a cake pan.
Easy Chocolate Mousse
With simple ingredients, zero cooking, and a method that takes about 2 minutes total, this mousse is delish!
With just a few pantry staples, you can make the creamiest, most luxe vegan Chocolate Mousse to share with the kids …o r to just enjoy yourself. This takes minutes to make and is downright dreamy.
Vegan Chocolate Mousse
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Make a batch of these healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies—loaded with dried fruit, oats, chocolate, and coconut—to share with the family. They’re a perfect dessert or special snack that the kids and the adults in the family will dig into.
These classic Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies have lower sugar but all the flavor and texture you crave. Choose your add-ins based on the kinds your family enjoys most.
Healthy Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Easy Vanilla Cupcakes
These Healthy Cupcakes are light, fluffy, and moist. They’re also less sweet than most conventional cupcakes, both in the cake and in the pretty pink frosting, but they are still SO delicious!
These Healthy Vanilla Cupcakes are light, fluffy, and moist. They’re also less sweet than most conventional cupcakes, both in the cake and in the pretty pink frosting, but they are still SO delicious!
Healthy Vanilla Cupcakes (So Easy!)
I’d love to hear your feedback on these Mother’s Day brunch ideas, so please comment below!