Breakfast

Just some of our favourite healthy French recipes our family enjoy for breakfast. Whether you love oatmeal cookies, strawberry clafoutis or maple syrup granola, these breakfast ideas are a perfect way to start the day.

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plate of oat flapjacks studded with dried fruits, nuts and seeds

Breakfast • 40 minutes

Healthy Flapjacks (with Fruit and Nuts)

French gingerbread or pain d'épices topped with glacé fruits next to the christmas tree

Breakfast • 1 hour 10 minutes

Pain d'épices (French Gingerbread)

cookie jar spilling out granola next to orange and red ribbons

Breakfast • 40 minutes

Christmas Granola (Granola de Noël)

moist fluffy muffins with two topped with a spiral of cream cheese frosting with orange zest

Breakfast • 45 minutes

Carrot Cake Muffins

plate with 2 cranberry cookies next to clementine oranges

Breakfast • 40 minutes

Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies with Hazelnut & Cranberry

crispy cheese waffles served with a pot of honey and rosemary

Breakfast • 25 minutes

Cheese Waffles (Gaufres au fromage)

bowl of pear crumble with chocolate

Breakfast • 50 minutes

Pear Crumble with Oats, Chocolate and Hazelnut

classic shape of a Parisian brioche with a little round head on top

Breakfast • 2 hours 55 minutes

Fluffy French Brioche

slice of rustic ricotta cheesecake

Breakfast • 35 minutes

Corsican Ricotta Cheesecake (Fiadone)

fig jam with bread and cheese

Breakfast • 2 hours 50 minutes

Corsican Fig Jam (Confiture de Figues)

dish of baked halved apricots with lavender and pot of honey

Breakfast • 25 minutes

Baked Apricots (Abricots Rôtis)

glass jars filled with bright orange apricot jam with sprigs of purple lavender

Breakfast • 5 hours 20 minutes

Apricot Jam (confiture d'abricot)

bubbling plum jam with spices

Breakfast • 50 minutes

Spiced Plum Jam (and a Digital Jam Scale Review)

slice of cherry custard clafoutis dessert

Breakfast • 50 minutes

Cherry Clafoutis (Clafoutis aux Cerises)

rhubarb hibsicus compote

Breakfast • 2 hours 40 minutes

Rhubarb Compote - With Hibiscus Tea

cup of homemade granola

Breakfast • 30 minutes

Maple Granola (Granola au sirop d'érable)

glass bowls of rice puddings topped with golden sultana raisins

Breakfast • 1 hour 15 minutes

French Rice Pudding (Riz au lait)

thin crepe pancakes stacked on a plate

Breakfast • 1 hour 10 minutes

French Pancakes (Crêpes)

scotch pancakes in a tea towel

Breakfast • 30 minutes

Easy Scotch Pancakes

banana chestnut bread topped with figs and walnuts

Breakfast • 1 hour

Moist Banana Nut Bread (Cake)

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