I’m a fan of Patty Pinner. Her two previous titles Sweety Pies and Sweets: Soul Food Desserts and Memories have a reserved spot on my bookcase. When I learned that Sweet Mornings was being released in February, I was excited — because I love a breakfast or brunch cookbook. Let’s be honest I love most cookbooks – they offer inspiration as well as recipes to me – it is a comfort to see my bookcases filled with possibilities.
Sweet Mornings shares 125 sweet and savory breakfast and brunch recipes and each turn of the page offers one delicious dish after another. Mama’s Brown Sugar and Pecan Coffee Cake, Aunt Zaida’s Almond Coffee Ring and My My’s Old-Fashioned Crumb Cake are already marked and that was in the first pages. As I continue on I discovered it would be easier to mark the recipes that don’t appeal to me because that is a far less number. (Don’t hate me – not a fan of Red Velvet.) Patty shares glorious stories of the family and friends that live behind these heart-warming recipes.
Orange-Filled Crescents made from scratch – oh my – and no popping of a tube of refrigerated dough necessary. There are a few recipes that use a tube of biscuits or crescents – and that I can understand – sometimes we need a shortcut. My mom could make a batch of mean fried doughnuts with a can of biscuits – the rolls in the top left picture of the cover are made with a can of biscuits – and they look phenomenal, right? Overall, the majority of recipes are from scratch, soul feeding recipes that will sweeten our mornings.
Granolas, parfaits, waffles, egg dishes and other savory recipes round out this beautiful book. Sunday-Best Sausage Bread Pudding, Miss Rose’s Bacon Quiche and Sausage, Egg and Cheese Ring will be the star of any brunch table. I’m going to be trying several recipes over the next few weeks and will come back to edit this post.
Special thank to Agate Publishing and Patty Pinner for sharing this incredible recipe for Ava Joys Lemon Cake that can be downloaded at the link.
Photo © Peter McCullough, courtesy of Agate Publishing
Random Number Generator picked #17 – Shelley!
GIVEAWAY: My friends at Agate Publishing are offering one of you a copy of this fantastic book that is sure to become a resource that you will turn to time and again. To enter please leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite breakfast sweet is. The giveaway is open to U.S. addresses only and a random winner will be chosen on March 25th. (I’m having some issues with comments – they are being sent directly to spam – I will approve them several times a day – if you leave a message come back the next day to make sure it is there. If there is a problem – please e-mail me at icywit at gmail dot com.) Good luck! Thanks Agate for this opportunity.
Lately I’ve been craving donuts! But usually I’m a coffee cake lover 🙂
Always looking for “homespun” brunch goodies, sounds like this book fits that genre!
I’ve been craving donuts lately but I’m usually a coffee cake girl!
I found a recipe for a french toast casserole with caramel pecan toppings recipe in America’s Test Kitchen Family cookbook. I’ve made this numerous times when I have friends over for a Sunday brunch.
I’ve so been wanting this book! My favorite breakfast sweet is a chocolate chocolate donut followed by cinnamon rolls!
Always coffee cake !!!!
I love muffins in all their glory.
Love baking anything from scratch
I am always looking for new egg dishes and I also love brunch!
Favorite breakfast treat in my former life–a good homemade cinnamon roll. I do love making granola (it’s easy to make GF). Love granola with yogurt and fruit.
Always a fan of anything sweet for breakfast. #1 is cinnamon rolls.
I love coffee cakes and muffins, but I’ll try anything baked 🙂
Betty Crocker Sour cream coffee cake
Love Breakfast/brunch, my favorite eats of the day. Sweet Mornings would be a great addition to my book collection.
Pie! Pie! Any kind of dessert item, actually, to go with morning java, but pie is something we both love! … gotta admit that lemon-filled coffeecake looks pretty yum, tho, as a perfect harbinger of spring flavors!
This is my favourite category, brunch , breakfast. I love a great coffee cake.
I want all the food. 🙂 (But I’m partial to coffee cake.)
I love breakfast! There’s something about getting up in the morning and having something warm and sweet from the oven to start your day off right. Let’s face it something sweet anytime of day is great and always lovely to share with friends.
I have a weakness for chocolate chip muffins.
My favorite breakfast treat is a warm cheese danish any topping except for pineapple.
I LOVE a tender cinnamon roll BUT my other love is coffee cake . Both have to be (Dare I say it) – moist!
The lemon cake looks fantastic. My favorite types of recipes
Lemon is the best. My favorite recipients are this type
I love French Toast or a good cinnamon roll.
Coffee Cake with a higher ratio of crumbs than cake. lol
Crumb cake, heavy on the crumb with very cold milk.
Agate is publishing some very nice cookbooks lately, and are featuring lots of black authors. They also did Grandbaby Cakes. They really are going a great job and are outside of the usual New York sphere. Thanks for pointing this book out.
LOVE LOVE stuff like this. Sign me up! 🙂
Favorite breakfast sweet is blueberry crumb coffee cake.
This looks like a book of terrific, homespun recipes. I’m like you–can’t have too many cookbooks on my shelves. On snowy winter mornings I make a really unique spiced Scottish oatmeal with fresh banana, coconut milk and dried figs, apricots and golden raisins. It cooks for a long time with a vanilla bean, cinnamon stick, fresh ginger, cardamom pods, orange peel.
My favorite breakfast sweet treat is cinnamon rolls.
I’m a sucker for a good cinnamon roll with coffee
I make fantastic Apple biscuits, and I love dirt bomb muffins.
I make great Apple biscuits and I love dirt bomb muffins.
It’s a Russian tea biscuit, not the cookie, but a pastry that’s quite popular in the Cleveland area and can be found in Jewish bakeries and delis.
Love a genuine custard donut, among many other sweets.
My favorite breakfast sweet is bread pudding.
Cinnamon rolls!!
yeasty breakfast rolls like cinnamon rolls or coffee cake. yum!
I love cinnamon rolls.
Homemade cinnamon rolls, yum!
I really have to hold back in the bakery dept when I grocery shop or walk by a bakery in town. I love Pastries with cream cheese and fruit (what ever is in season) – this cookbook is on my wish list as I have the others, she’s an amazing baker/cook
Love baking for brunch. Yesterday made My favorite — Pecan Maple French Toast.
my favorite breakfast is grits with bacon and a cup of coffee.
Our favorite breakfast sweet is my husband’s homemade cinnamon rolls. He put his recipe together from several different ones.
French toast or my mom’s sour cream coffee cake. I wonder if French toast made from coffee cake is possible?
Always, always looking for brunch and breakfast sweets. This book looks great
LOL, does bacon dipped in maple syrup count as a sweet?
I’m loving ricotta hotcakes at the moment.
A bear claw, followed closely by leftover apple pie!
French toasts made with King’s Hawaiian sweet bread and coffee cakes !! Yum !!
Cinnamon rolls, chocolate filled croissants, and muffins — all kinds of muffins! — oh, and scones!
French Toast!
Cinnamon Coffee Cake is my favorite. Always so yummy!
Sticky buns!
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes
I like Danish for breakfast
I love bostock! Fortunately it’s a little involved to make, so I’m “safe” from it most of the time.
my favorite breakfast sweet? Mass produced, definitely NOT diabetic friendly, honeybuns
Homemade cinnamon rolls
I love all sweet breakfast foods, but waffles & pancakes def top the list of favorites!!
Blueberry muffins!
Mmmm, breakfast sweets–the perfect way to start the day! My favorite is coffeecake, preferably with a thick layer of crumb topping. Love it!
Cinnamon rolls!
Blueberry zucchini crumb coffee cake.
Waffles!
Banana bread or muffins are made most often due to ease. But favorite treat has to be oooey gooey cinnamon rolls.
Pancakes!
Almond bear claws are one of my favorite breakfast foods.
Favorite breakfast sweet…hmmm. I don’t normally eat breakfast (I know, I know!), but I do love crepes with a sweet filling – a local creperie makes one with sliced strawberries, lemon curd, and lemon goat cheese. It is amazing.
Love all breakfast foods! Love breakfast for dinner!
I love a good crumb coffee cake!
everything breakfast is my favorite.
Blueberry muffins, fresh out of the oven…preferably with a streusel topping!
Mmm, blueberry muffins are my favorite!
I sincerely hope I’m not too late…love this time of day for eating! BRUNCH, BRUNCH, BRUNCH!