Breakfast for Overnight Guests

When you have overnight guests, you want them to feel welcome, from the time they walk in the door straight through the next morning when they sit down for breakfast. But who wants to cook for a crowd in the early morning hours?

You can serve breakfast for overnight guests without getting up at the crack of dawn. Try some of these breakfast recipes that can be made and assembled the night before and popped into the oven the next morning.

Have lots of orange juice on hand and some good coffee and a variety of teas.

Cut up some fresh fruit and put out some bakery croissants, donuts or muffins and you've got a beautiful breakfast spread for your company.


Egg Strata

• 1 pound sausage
• 1 pound hot sausage
• 9 eggs, slightly beaten
• 3 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 slices of bread, cut into cubes
• 1½ cups grated cheddar cheese

Cook sausage and drain off grease. Combine all ingredients together and pour into an 11-by-13-inch baking dish. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Uncover and bake at 350 degrees until solid, slightly browned and bubbly, about 1 hour.


Butterscotch Pecan Breakfast Coffee Cake

• 18 frozen dinner roll dough balls
• 1 package butterscotch pudding
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ white sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup pecans
• 1 stick butter, melted

Grease a Bundt pan and sprinkle pecans in the bottom. Place frozen dough balls in the pan.  In a small mixing bowl, combine pudding mix, brown sugar, white sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle mixture over dough. Pour melted butter over all. Let stand overnight with a towel placed loosely over top. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Let sit in pan for 5-10 minutes, then turn upside down remove pan.


Baked French Toast with Berries

• 1 loaf French bread
• 5 eggs
• ¾ cup milk
• ¼ teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 20-ounce bag frozen whole strawberries
• 4 bananas, sliced
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Cut French bread loaf into 8 thick slices. In a shallow bowl, combine eggs, milk, baking powder and vanilla, and pour over bread. Cover and refrigerate overnight. In the morning, combine strawberries, sliced bananas, sugar and cinnamon.  Place fruit mixture in a greased baking dish and top with prepared bread. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake at 450 degrees for 20-25 minutes.


Other breakfast ideas for company on the Web:

CDKitchen.com

Bed and Breakfast Inns Online has an exhaustive list of breakfast ideas, taken from bed and breakfast innkeepers worldwide.

How Stuff Works has lots of breakfast and brunch ideas, good enough for company.

And on a somewhat unrelated note, the Do It Yourself Network’s Queen of Clean gives tips on how to prepare your house for overnight guests.