40 Sweet Bread Recipes To Pair With Your Morning Coffee

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Orange Rolls

Your family will definitely want to rise, shine, and dine when they smell these Easy Orange Rolls baking in the oven. In fact, this might be the perfect morning treat to get many more people out of bed and into your kitchen. Try making these during a holiday when you have a full house.

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Praline Pull-Apart Bread

Make this delicious bread for special occasions. It's easy to fix with frozen bread dough, and a caramel-flavored sauce poured on top makes it irresistible. The secret to the smooth texture of the sauce is the quick step of whipping the cream before stirring in the brown sugar.

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Party Coffee Cake

Add a bit of refreshing flavor to your coffee cake with a combination of lemon and cinnamon. A sugary pecan topping completes this easy breakfast treat. This is a coffee cake that will impress anyone lucky enough to have a slice.

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Hummingbird Bundt Cake

From pineapple to cream cheese, the same ingredients first featured in the 1978 version of this popular layer cake still shine in our new version—simplified by baking in a Bundt pan. The cream cheese glaze is your favorite old-school flavor from Grandma's kitchen, perfect for sugar cookies and brownies, too.

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Bakeshop Blueberry Muffins

Bake this coffee shop staple at home with just 10 minutes of hands-on time. These delightful morsels come together so quickly, we advise making two batches. Save the fresh muffins for a week of grab 'n go breakfast, and freeze the other batch for a future of coffee dates with yourself.

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Cream Cheese Pastries

This dessert-for-breakfast is sure to impress. Your breakfast companions will be sure you ran out early in the morning to find baked goods. Our Test Kitchen developed this recipe to make four loaves, so you can make one for your grateful family and guests, and give the rest to neighbors and workmates during the holidays.

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Gingerbread Muffins

These sweet bites are complete with a topping of cream cheese frosting. Whether you need help getting in the holiday spirit or you simply want a taste of one of winter's most beloved flavors, our gingerbread muffins will do the trick!

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Cream Cheese-Banana-Nut Bread

Enjoy banana bread without all the guilt with this healthy banana bread recipe. This wonderfully moist bread gets its rich texture not just from bananas, but from cream cheese also. It's a real treat to linger over with your morning cup.

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Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

Pumpkin puts a seasonal twist on your weekend cinnamon rolls. There’s pumpkin in the dough and the filling, which is warmly spiced with nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon. Topped with a tangy cream cheese glaze, your morning coffee will be extra sweet paired with these.

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Carrot Cake Muffins

How much do we love carrot cake? This breakfast recipe adds to the ways. While we happily endorse a slice of carrot cake in the morning, it's more fun to add muffins packed with the spices and ingredients for your favorite carrot cake to the menu.

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Cinnamon Coffee Cake

This sweet and easy coffee cake recipe can be enjoyed year-round, whether for Saturday brunch or a new neighbor. The sweet, crunchy streusel—which would also be divine on muffins, by the way—is balanced by a sour cream mixture that keeps the sugar from going off the charts. This is one of those tried-and-true results that will end your search for the perfect coffee cake.

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Sour Cream Banana Bread With Pecan Streusel Topping

Instead of turning to your usual banana bread recipe the next time you have overripe bananas on the counter, try this moist recipe for something out of the ordinary. A bit of stirring, an hour of baking, and you'll have a delicious loaf of banana bread that's ready to share with hungry visitors. The pecan streusel will have you craving pie as a side.

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Apple Butter Cinnamon Rolls With Apple Cider Glaze

There really isn't any butter in apple butter. It is simply a highly concentrated form of apple sauce produced by slow-cooking apples to the point where the natural sugars caramelize. These sweet rolls can be prepped in advance and frozen to make your life easier the day you're serving.

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King Cake Monkey Bread

Create a totally new way to enjoy this Mardi Gras treat with just a few pantry staples. King Cake might seem like an undertaking, but with this version you won't feel too pressed to be so on top of your baking game. The secret is using a can of pre-made cinnamon roll dough.

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Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread

This is one of those make and bakes whose presentation is just as delightful as its taste. The layers are buttery with a light golden crumb. Making this beautiful pull-apart bread is such a fun way to spend an afternoon with the kids.

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Pumpkin-Pecan Coffee Cake

A serving of this coffee cake will help you relish all fall has to offer. The sweet crumb topping caramelizes and crisps on top of the pumpkin and spice batter. Freeze squares of this cake to have any time you need to sit and savor the season.

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Citrus Pull-Apart Bread

This is the bright loaf of bread that should be greeting you in the morning. Honey, nutmeg, and lemon juice bring light layers of spiced sweetness onto your plate, satisfying that need to balance your coffee. Just add a sunrise, and this breakfast goes down just right.

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Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin bread should always have a handful of things: a mixture of fall spices, some kind of oil in the batter, and pure pumpkin puree. Melted butter lends richness to the bread and melted coconut oil keeps the interior of the loaf moist and soft. This is autumn, embodied, but we hope you throw it together any time you need a satisfying coffee pairing.

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Quick and Easy Cream Cheese Danish

Impress everyone with these simple danishes that are a snap to make. No one will believe you made them yourself. All it takes are sheets of frozen puff pastry and lemon-infused cream cheese. Top with any fruit that’s in season, and brush with apple jelly for a hit of sweetness.

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Snickerdoodle Doughnut Hole Muffins

Twenty-four muffins in less than an hour? Count us in! Not only does this recipe yield a decent amount, but it also celebrates the flavors of the most underrated cookie we know: the humble Snickerdoodle. Everyone loves them, and these muffins are a tasty reminder of that classic cookie.

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Homemade Orange Rolls

Skip the freezer aisle and try a new baking project this weekend with our orange rolls recipe. If you have never made homemade sweet rolls before, you will be so amazed at how easily these come together. You don't need a canned or frozen roll anymore.

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Apple Bread

Made with a base of applesauce and eggs instead of butter and sugar, this apple bread recipe is surprisingly healthier. That doesn't mean there will be leftovers. When paired with a hot cup of coffee, you and everyone else at the table are going to want seconds.

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Raisin Bread

Making any type of homemade bread requires a genuine labor of love. It's an arduous process making the dough from scratch. Then you must knead and pound it to guarantee that the dough will rise properly. This raisin bread recipe makes two loaves, so be ready to make one and freeze the other or give it to Mama to brighten her day.

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Banana Bread

With just a few pantry staple ingredients and 15 minutes of hands-on time, this recipe is as simple and no-frills as it gets. This simple traditional banana bread will wow your family and friends with its moist texture and wonderful banana flavor. Topped with a pat of melty butter, this classic banana bread pairs beautifully with a hot mug of coffee or tea.

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Chocolate-Peanut Butter Monkey Bread

Treat yourself to this rich, dessert-like bread. Pieces of crescent dough are stuffed with miniature peanut butter cups and stacked in a Bundt pan. As if that’s not enough, caramel sauce goes over the whole thing, filling all the nooks and crannies. To top off this decadent dish, drizzle melted chocolate and peanut butter over the baked bread.

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Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Do you want a streusel-topped coffee cake or a muffin for breakfast? This quick recipe gives you both of those! You can make these muffins all year round with fresh or frozen blueberries. These muffins freeze well and need to be at the top of your freezer's muffin inventory.

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Orange Rolls

The orange roll is a staple at the Southern breakfast table. These are filled with orange marmalade and topped with a sweet glaze, bringing this beloved breakfast item to new heights. Enjoy these tender and buttery spirals with your favorite cup of coffee.

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Apple Muffins

Caramelized Apple Toffee Muffins — Stephen Devries; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall

Make a batch of these soft apple muffins on Sunday and enjoy them throughout the week. Although the recipe calls for Fuji apples, our Test Kitchen professionals agreed that any apple variety works. A tip from the Test Kitchen: Don't overwork these muffins. The batter only needs mixing until it is just combined, which helps keep the muffins super soft.

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Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls

Biscuit Cinnamon Sweet Rolls — Alison Miksch

With just 20 minutes of hands-on time, this recipe is so much simpler to make than it looks. Without yeast, these lovelies will be on the table in less than an hour. While they are cooking, you can make the easy 3-ingredient glaze to drizzle on the rolls while they are warm just after they come out of the oven.

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Cinnamon Swirl Pastry Muffins

Cinnamon Swirl Puff Pastry Muffins — Victor Protasio; Food Stylist: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Stylist Claire Spollen

These muffins don’t require any batter. Like a cross between a croissant and a churro, you just need a few sheets of puff pastry, cinnamon, sugar, and butter to create these beautifully sweet and crunchy treats in your muffin pan.

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Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

Southern Living Pumpkin Bread sliced on a cutting board — Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox

This pumpkin bread has the moist, dense texture of a pound cake. It’s dotted with chocolate chips, but you can add dried cranberries or crystallized ginger instead. A little sugar and some pumpkin seeds make a pretty topping and add crunch.

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins

Every bite of these muffins is packed with spiced pumpkin and ribbons of cream cheese. Store them in the refrigerator and take them out a little before serving time to let them come to room temperature.

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Carrot Cake Quick Bread

This bread makes it acceptable to have carrot cake for breakfast. Thanks to crushed pineapple, this bread is moist and tender. Toasted pecans add just enough crunch, and a buttermilk glaze sweetens every bite.

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Classic Monkey Bread

Out of all the fun versions of this bread, you can never go wrong with the classic. It's easy to make and guaranteed to please a crowd.

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Blueberry Banana Bread

You can start and end the day with this blueberry banana bread. Just-ripe bananas will work in this recipe.

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Pumpkin Banana Bread

This quick bread is the best of both worlds. Only spend 10 minutes of active time on this banana bread that's fit for fall.

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Zucchini Bread Recipes

Southern Living Zucchini Bread sliced on a platter to serve — Victor Protasio, Food Stylist: Margaret Dickey, Prop Stylist: Christina Daley

This sweet bread is loaded with veggie nutrition. Make use of zucchini this season with this recipe.

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Hummingbird Bread

Our Hummingbird cake recipe was such hit that we had to make a bread version. Flavors of banana, pecan, coconut, and pineapple are all featured in this bread.

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Mandel Bread

These Biscotti-like treats will pair perfectly with your morning cup of coffee or tea. You might be able to find all of the ingredients in your pantry. Our recipe makes a generous amount, perfect for sharing with family and friends.

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