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 25 Foolproof Brunches Fancy Enough for Mother’s Day

February 22, 2017
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Show mom some love on her special day with a spread of tasty breakfast and brunch recipes. Satisfy her morning sweet tooth with our orange-walnut coffee cake. Or, go savory with a vegetable and goat cheese frittata. Don't forget a golden beet bloody mary and some flowers to round out the celebration!
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Rosé-Poached Berries

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View recipe: Rosé-Poached Berries

Serve this condiment at breakfast on top of yogurt (as shown here) or oatmeal, or try it for dessert over ice cream. You can also make the recipe with raspberries or blackberries.

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Golden Beet Bloody Mary

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View recipe: Golden Beet Bloody Mary

Brighten your brunch-time beverage with a Bloody that delivers on all fronts: brisk and bold with the perfect dose of briny tang. Not to mention its nutritional boost: Tomatoes and beets are excellent sources of potassium, which helps regulate the body's fluid balance and keep blood pressure in check. Roasting beets amplifies their sweet, earthy flavor, adding extra depth to our homemade mix (and saving you 200mg sodium over most bottled mixes). We'll cheers to that!

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Orange-Walnut Coffee Cake

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View Recipe: Orange-Walnut Coffee Cake

To build a better breakfast cake that won’t send you into midmorning nap mode, we start by building a whole-grain base bolstered with warm spices and brightened up with citrus juice and zest. The savory notes of olive oil lend complexity, while the oil’s characteristic fruitiness is accentuated by the citrus zest. The finished product: a bakery-quality coffee cake with a fraction of the sat fat and only 333 calories.

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Vegetable and Goat Cheese Frittata

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A veggie-loaded frittata is a great way to use up produce odds and ends. Broccoli is an excellent addition here: The florets poke through the egg mixture and become delightfully frizzled in the oven. Look for refrigerated pico de gallo in the prepared produce section of the supermarket. You can also fold the pico into the egg mixture before cooking; simply drain off the excess liquid first. Serve with a simple salad made with the remaining arugula you bought.

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Corn Pancakes with Smoked Salmon and Lemon-Chive Cream

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These savory pancakes are dressed perfectly with fresh lemon-chive cream and smoked salmon. Breakfast time, or anytime, these are a must try.

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Sour Cream Scones

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Whole-wheat flour adds nutty flavor to a basic scone recipe. Split one in half, and fill with your choice of curd.

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Feta, Green Onion, and Asparagus Frittata

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Fresh, tender asparagus stars in this light and fluffy breakfast frittata.

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Strawberry-Topped Pavlovas with Honey-Balsamic Sauce

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The components of this dessert can be prepared in stages and assembled shortly before serving. Store meringues in an airtight container at room temperature up to one week; refrigerate strawberries and sauce for up to two days. Garnish with mint.

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Toffee Dip with Apples

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Crunchy toffee bits stirred into a creamy dip make this impossible to stop eating. It’s kid and adult friendly. Coating the apples with pineapple juice prevent them from browning.

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Carrot-Citrus Crush

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Brighten up winter happy hour or Sunday brunch with this citrusy cocktail. Leafy carrot tops lend an herby backbone similar to parsley, and blood oranges infuse a berrylike sweetness. Plus, this drink boasts half your daily vitamin A and more than a third of your daily vitamin C goal.

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Two Potato and Beet Hash with Poached Eggs and Greens

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Sautéed yukon gold potatoes, sweet potatoes, and beets are topped with poached eggs for a meatless meal fit for brunch or dinner. To save time, you can purchase precooked, vacuum-packed beets at many markets in the produce section.

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Pistachio-Chai Muffins

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A simple sugar glaze anchors crunchy pistachios, while aromatic spices and black tea speckle the dough.

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Prosciutto and Melon Salad with Cantaloupe Vinaigrette

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Rice vinegar and cantaloupe in the dressing completely reset this ham-and-melon classic. Peppery arugula adds bite.

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Dutch Baby With Strawberries and Pistachios

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The key to the dish's dramatic puff comes from oven spring—the jolt of steam and heat the batter gets when it's poured into the sizzling-hot pan and then goes straight into a cranked-up oven. Make the strawberry mixture first so the fruit has time to macerate and get even juicier.

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Smoked Turkey and Swiss Crepes

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Separate the turkey into eight piles on a plate, and top evenly with cheese so you can quickly top each crepe as it cooks in the pan. Black Forest turkey has a subtle smoked flavor. You can also use oven-roasted turkey.

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Fresh Strawberry Shortcakes With Yogurt Cream

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If you have a minute to spare, swap the vanilla extract for a vanilla bean. Split the bean lengthwise, scrape half of the seeds into the shortcake recipe, and whip the remaining half into the yogurt cream. It will add an extra level of flavor-packed intensity to the recipe.

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Blood Orange Mimosas

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We love the color blood oranges give this classic brunch cocktail. A dash of bitters adds depth. Look for orange bitters—such as Fee Brothers or Stirrings—at liquor stores or specialty grocers. The sugar cube dissolves as you sip, balancing the bitters and giving off bubbles for a festive touch. Juice the oranges and keep chilled up to a day ahead.

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Bordeaux-Style Strawberries

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In Bordeaux, where châteaus and vineyards abound, a typical dessert is fresh strawberries sliced into a red wine glass and then topped with a great Bordeaux. Here, that regional tradition is adapted to make it more dessert-like. If you're pressed for time, do as the Bordelais do—quick and easy.

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Blueberry-Sour Cream Muffins

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When our crumbly-crisp topping meets the light, fluffy belly of this muffin, you'll swoon.

Our whole-grain muffins cuts 30 calories, 3.5g sat fat, and 6g added sugars from a traditional blueberry muffin. Bonus: An extra 2g fiber.

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Bananas Foster Breakfast Strata

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Take care when adding the rum to the hot pan—it flames up immediately. You can also add the rum off the heat, and then carefully light it with a long match.

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Blueberry Coffeecake with Almond Streusel

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One bite and you will add this moist cake to your favorites list—it shows off the fruit to perfection. If you go blueberry picking this summer, freeze some for the winter; you can prepare this cake with frozen (unthawed) berries—bake a few minutes longer as needed.

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Champagne Gelée with Strawberries

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This year for Mother's Day, make mom what she really wants—a beautiful, seasonal dessert that's basically Champagne in a bowl. Unlike some classic gelatin desserts, this one—relying on a high-quality sparkler—is quite elegant. You can cut the set gelée into a crosshatch pattern for small cubes that "look like sparkly diamonds in the bowl," says Elisabeth Prueitt, co-founder of Tartine Bakery & Cafe and Tartine Manufactory in San Francisco and co-author of Tartine.

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Artichoke and Goat Cheese Strata

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To make ahead, prepare through step 2, cover, and chill. Before baking, let bread mixture stand at room temperature 10 minutes while the oven preheats. Then assemble and bake. The cook time will increase by about 10 minutes. Garnish with parsley.

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Egg Baskets

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Our individual baked eggs nestled in crispy hash brown cups are pickup food at its best. It’s a great way to serve a crowd; just cook up what you need in muffin pans. Good news: We got the best results with refrigerated shredded hash browns, which were far preferable to shredded fresh potatoes and save time and effort.

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Pear and Gruyère Strata

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Think of this as stuffed French toast in a casserole. Here, sweet cinnamon bread meets juicy pears and the savory bite of Gruyère cheese. You want a pear variety that will hold its shape and won't exude too much moisture as the strata bakes—we liked Anjou and Concorde.

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    1 of 25 Rosé-Poached Berries
    2 of 25 Golden Beet Bloody Mary
    3 of 25 Orange-Walnut Coffee Cake
    4 of 25 Vegetable and Goat Cheese Frittata
    5 of 25 Corn Pancakes with Smoked Salmon and Lemon-Chive Cream
    6 of 25 Sour Cream Scones
    7 of 25 Feta, Green Onion, and Asparagus Frittata
    8 of 25 Strawberry-Topped Pavlovas with Honey-Balsamic Sauce
    9 of 25 Toffee Dip with Apples
    10 of 25 Carrot-Citrus Crush
    11 of 25 Two Potato and Beet Hash with Poached Eggs and Greens
    12 of 25 Pistachio-Chai Muffins
    13 of 25 Prosciutto and Melon Salad with Cantaloupe Vinaigrette
    14 of 25 Dutch Baby With Strawberries and Pistachios
    15 of 25 Smoked Turkey and Swiss Crepes
    16 of 25 Fresh Strawberry Shortcakes With Yogurt Cream
    17 of 25 Blood Orange Mimosas
    18 of 25 Bordeaux-Style Strawberries
    19 of 25 Blueberry-Sour Cream Muffins
    20 of 25 Bananas Foster Breakfast Strata
    21 of 25 Blueberry Coffeecake with Almond Streusel
    22 of 25 Champagne Gelée with Strawberries
    23 of 25 Artichoke and Goat Cheese Strata
    24 of 25 Egg Baskets
    25 of 25 Pear and Gruyère Strata

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