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How To Make a Brunch Board

Nothing says relaxation and pampering like a brunch or breakfast board that's loaded with everyone's morning favorites! Whether you include eggs, meats, cheeses, fresh fruits, or all the craveworthy carbs, it's sure to be a hit! Use ready-made foods from your bakery or grocery store so all that remains is FAST and EASY assembly!

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
30 mins
Servings: 8
Calories: 1302 kcal
Course: Breakfast , Bread
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • Meats - sausage links or patties sliced deli or homemade ham, bacon, smoked sausage, lox, prosciutto, sliced turkey
  • Cheese - cubed slices, or wedges including cheddar, pepper jack, smoked gouda, and cheese spreads. Also consider brie, American, goat cheese, Manchego, Swiss, or other favorite cheeses
  • Eggs - Hard or soft-boiled scrambled, fried. Consider egg muffins, fritattas, and quiche
  • Bread - biscuits canned or frozen or even homemade, bagels, croissants, waffles, pancakes, scones
  • Sweet Breads - donuts cinnamon rolls, donut holes, mini muffins, or your favorite sweet carby treats
  • Bread - White whole wheat, rolls, Hawaiian bread
  • Potatoes - hashbrowns tator tots, and consider potato casseroles
  • Gravy - classic gravy or with sausage
  • Cream cheese - regular or flavored
  • Condiments - jellies jams, syrup, Nutella, peanut butter, butter or margarine
  • Beverages - coffee milk, creamers, water, orange juice or other juices, champagne or mimosas
  • Fruit - all berries such as strawberries raspberries, blueberries, blackberries; apple slices, orange segments, melons, bananas. Also consider pineapple, mango, kiwi, grapes and more
  • Vegetables - sliced or cherry tomatoes cucumbers, red or white onions, pickles or relish
  • Other - yogurt granola, cereals
  • Serving platters - wooden cutting boards metal trays, small serving bowls, ramekins, plates, silverware

Instructions

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  1. Choose what you’re putting on the board, and reheat it or cook it, as needed.
  2. Select your board, various sizes of serving bowls, plates, utensils, and whatever props or items you will need for assembly.
  3. Fill smaller bowls with things like jams, gravy, or anything you don’t want spilled onto other items.
  4. For more main items like the meats or eggs, you can plate them or simply lay them on the board.
  5. Place a few main bowls around the main food items and add to them what you think will fit best in them from potatoes to muffins, whatever looks best.
  6. Place smaller bowls around the main bowls. Tip - Layer by raising up the smaller bowls in stacks or placing them on a glass to raise them which allows you to pack more food onto the board without it looking too crammed in or overcrowded.
  7. Fill in open spaces with bread, cheeses, fruits, muffins, sweets, or whatever you are exactly using and what will nicely fill in the gaps.
  8. Add serving spoons to anything that needs it and set out plates, cutlery, and napkins for guests to use.* (See Notes for some themed board suggestions, ideas, and recipe link inspiration.)

Notes

  • Ingredients Note — Use quantities sufficient to feed your group, mix-and-match items as desired, this is a flexible and creative recipe concept.
  • Pancake Board with various types of pancakes – Mini Buttermilk Pancakes, Pumpkin Pancakes, or Apple Cinnamon Pancakes are all great.
  • Muffin board with all the muffins – From Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins, to Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, to full size Zucchini Muffins to Skinny Blueberry Muffins, and Flourless Blender Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip.
  • Waffle Board – From Hash Brown Waffles to Classic Waffles with Berries or Pumpkin Waffles and everything in between.
  • Eggs All Ways Board – Although this will require more prep and planning, from a Bacon and Cheese Egg Casserole, to Fancy White Cheddar Baked Eggs in Ramekins, an Easy Frittata, a Cheesy Quiche, Skinny 100-Calorie Egg Muffins, or  beloved Egg-In-A-Hole Avocado Toast, Eggs In Hell with Italian Sausage, and more – nothing screams brunch quite like eggs!

Nutrition Information

Serving 1 Calories 1302kcal (65%) Carbohydrates 138g (46%) Protein 51g (102%) Fat 60g (92%) Saturated Fat 25g (125%) Polyunsaturated Fat 28g Trans Fat 1g Cholesterol 242mg (81%) Sodium 2272mg (95%) Fiber 10g (40%) Sugar 55g (110%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 8Serving

Amount Per Serving

Calories 1302

% Daily Value*

Serving 1
Calories 1302kcal 65%
Carbohydrates 138g 46%
Protein 51g 102%
Fat 60g 92%
Saturated Fat 25g 125%
Polyunsaturated Fat 28g 165%
Trans Fat 1g 50%
Cholesterol 242mg 81%
Sodium 2272mg 95%
Fiber 10g 40%
Sugar 55g 110%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.