Best Breakfast Cookbooks

Breakfast is an often-neglected meal due to a lack of fresh ideas. However, we’ve got a list of inspiring breakfast cookbooks perfect for in-a-rush weekdays or lazy Sunday mornings.

So, if you’re at a loss for brekkie ideas, enjoy our eight favorite breakfast cookbooks. Each book will transform your morning into the best time of the day.

• The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook
• The Breakfast Bible
• Big Bad Breakfast
• Sunny-Side Up
• Let’s Make Oatmeal
• Sarabeth’s Good Morning Cookbook
• Breakfast: The Cookbook
• Ultimate Breakfast Cookbook 

Treating yourself to a hearty breakfast can transform your whole day, replenishing your energy supply and giving you a new zest for life. 

The breakfast cookbooks below include something for every belly. We’ve got sweet and savory breakfasts, light and heavy, thrown together in a pinch, prepared overnight, or takes all morning to create.

The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook

The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook is written by Lisa Steele, a fifth-generation chicken farmer and the founder of the Fresh Eggs Daily blog. Lisa pens down innovative recipes filled with unique ways to cook and bake with eggs.

Lisa includes her go-to breakfast recipes like the perfect fried egg, eggs Benedict, sandwiches, and French omelets. However, instead of only focusing on yummy breakfast recipes, Lisa includes ways to make eggs a staple of each meal.

The Breakfast Bible

Kate McMillan has authored over a dozen cookbooks, including The Breakfast Bible. The Breakfast Bible is a comprehensive collection of classics to modern breakfast recipes.

The recipes include eggs and bacon, bread and pastries, fruits and grains, shakes, and healthful bowls. These morning favorites even include healthy, gluten-free alternatives.

 

Big Bad Breakfast

The Big Bad Breakfast is just one of John Currence’s strings of success. The celebrated and famous chef, restaurant owner, and author wrote this fun and festive book to celebrate and elevate the soul and rituals of authentic Southern breakfasts.

The Big Bad Breakfast is a substance-filled and witty cookbook all breakfast lovers will want to read from start to finish. John clearly reflects that breakfast isn’t only the most important but the most delicious meal of the day with his 137 approachable Southern-style recipes. John makes the “bad” pretty damn great!

Sunny-Side Up

Sunny-Side Up is written by the famous pastry chef Waylynn Lucas and aimed at helping home cooks create restaurant-quality breakfasts and brunches. She focuses on making her recipes approachable and less complicated to ensure anyone can whip up a delightful breakfast. 

Waylynn’s recipes range from simplistic scrambled eggs to full-on champagne brunches. Sunny-Side Up is split into sections with playful names, allowing her fun personality to radiate through the book.

Let’s Make Oatmeal

Let’s Make Oatmeal: 40 Oat-Rageously Oat-Standing Recipes is a cookbook entirely dedicated to the underrated breakfast classic – oats. The author, Christina Tosch, includes deliciously sweet and savory, served hot and cold.

Inside Let’s Make Oatmeal, you’ll find 40 classic and modern oat-based recipes that take minimal time to prepare. Note that not all the recipes are breakfast-based. 

Sarabeth’s Good Morning Cookbook

Sarabeth Levine is a best-selling author, restaurateur, and outstanding pastry chef. There’s a good reason her eponymous Now York restaurant (and its Florida and Japan outposts) have lines that wind around the building’s block. Fortunately, her cookbook delivers delightfully. 

You are in for a treat with Sarabeth’s beautiful signature dishes made home cook-friendly in her cookbook. Sarabeth’s Good Moring Cookbook is a comprehensive breakfast guide with over 150 classic morning and brunch recipes. These recipes are designed for home cooks to master, including techniques and tips to ensure entertaining guests is an effortless yet classy affair. 

Breakfast: The Cookbook

Emily Elyse Miller is a writer, culinary consultant, and founder of the BreakfastClub global event series. Her “Breakfast: The Cookbook” includes a comprehensive breakfast guide filled with authentic morning recipes from across the globe.

The cookbook is simplistic yet impressively broad, offering regional, feel-good breakfast dishes filled with culinary insight and culture. There is truly no cookbook that will expand your breakfast horizons like Emily’s 464-page cookbook. 

Ultimate Breakfast Cookbook

Ultimate Breakfast Cookbook by the life-long Southerner S.L Watson is a cookbook that includes over 450 unique breakfast recipes. The yummy cookbook features easy-to-make recipes and fun weekend recipes that you can prepare beforehand.

Make breakfast time a fun activity in your home by experimenting with these Southern-rich recipes. These recipes are all beginner-friendly, and ingredients can easily be substituted.

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