13 Kid-Friendly Brunch Ideas & Recipes

August 11, 2015

As an adult I do love the idea of a leisurely brunch with an oceanside view and bottomless mimosas, but let’s get real. My weekend “brunch” now includes a kitchen filled with tiny toes and cartoons on the television. That’s why I’ve come up with thirteen kid-friendly brunch ideas the whole family can enjoy. Who knows? I may still get that mimosa.

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13 Kid Friendly Brunch Ideas

Owl Waffle Pancakes

The perfect brunch for back-to-school combining some of your favorite breakfast foods to make for quite the adorable meal.

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Toast Animals

Whoever said you shouldn’t play with your food obviously never made these delicious toast animals.

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Pumpkin Crumb Muffins

With the perfect amount of sweetness your kids will never know these muffins are actually allowed for breakfast.

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Upgrade Your Pancakes

Five ways to make your pancakes even better than they already are---need I say more?

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Sugar and Spice Donuts

Kids and donuts are a no-brainer, but these donuts might just make you parent of the year!

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Breakfast Kabobs

Easy to make breakfast kabobs with pancakes, fruit, waffles, and sausage. Breakfast has never been so fun!

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Breakfast Monkey Bread

Bread filled with eggs, potatoes, bacon, and cheese. Oh yeah, did I mention there's country gravy involved for dipping?

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Peanut Butter & Jelly Waffles

If your kids love peanut butter & jelly, they’re going to love this recipe! What am I saying? Of course they love PB&J---they’re kids!

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Waffle Iron Hash Browns

Forget the frozen hash browns, these are just as simple and ten times more delicious!

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Strawberry Cheesecake Turnovers

Some might argue this is a dessert, not breakfast. That’s fine. More for me, then!

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Chilaquiles Frittata

Two amazing breakfast dishes just became one, and you’re kids are going to love it!

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Sausage Gravy on Toast

Biscuits and gravy is one thing, but if you’ve never tried it on Texas toast you’re really missing out!

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Pumpkin Pecan Pie Cinnamon Rolls

Talk about a decadent breakfast to the max! You’re kids won’t stop talking about these cinnamon rolls for weeks.

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Rachel Hollis is the founder of the popular lifestyle blog www.thechicsite.com and Los Angeles-based event-planning firm, Chic Events. At 27, she was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the “Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30.” She has designed and produced fabulous parties for many of Hollywood’s elite, including Bradley Cooper, Rashida Jones, Al Gore, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ivanka Trump, Jamie King, and Cuba Gooding Jr. (just to name a few). In February of 2014 she published her first book, a roman a clef called Party Girl about the years she spent as a celebrity event planner. The self-published title proved so successful that Lake Union Publishing purchased it and the subsequent sequel. Lake Union re-released Party Girl in December of 2014 and will publish the sequel, Sweet Girl in May 2015. In Fall of 2016, Thomas Dunne Books will be publishing Hollis’s cookbook entitled Fancy Trash, an irreverent collection of recipes for affordable meals presented so polished you'd never know their "lowbrow" origins. Most recently, she was named as the Best Blogger for Entertaining by Better Homes and Gardens.
In addition, Rachel is a lifestyle expert for The Talk, EXTRA, The Nate Berkus Show, The Steve Harvey Show, KTLA Morning News, Fox 5, Better TV and a regular contributor on PopSugar TV and Celebrations.com. She has been featured in People, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Parade, OK! Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Home, Entrepreneur, Grace Ormand and the TV shows “Jilted” and “I Do Over” for the WE Network, “The Traveler’s Guide to Life” on the Travel Channel and “Self Made.”
Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three boys.