20 Slow Cooker Recipes That Will Revolutionize Your Breakfast

Let's face it, sometimes a bowl of cereal or a granola bar becomes the default breakfast when we're short on time or too lazy. But, we can break the monotony and let our favorite appliance do the work. Here are 20 slow cooker recipes that can make your mornings right:

1. Apple Coffee Cake

This mouth-watering breakfast recipe from Get Crocked combines apples, cinnamon, and brown sugar to make a delicious coffee cake that can be made in a slow cooker. Prep time is minimal, just peel four apples, and let the crock pot do the rest of the work. How do you like them apples?

2. Banana Bread

This Betty Crocker recipe for banana bread is quick, easy, and pleasing for everyone. It only requires six ingredients and 15 minutes of prep. The time in the slow cooker is minimal – just 3.5 hours – making it perfect for brunch-time.

3. French Toast Casserole

Diethood recommends using French bread, bananas, cream cheese, honey, and chopped nuts to add to some typical recipe ingredients like eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla to jazz up French toast.

4. Biscuits and Gravy

Who would've thought that biscuits and gravy can be made in a slow cooker? B-Inspired Mama did. Although the recipe doesn't use whole biscuits, the technique is quite brilliant, turning biscuits and gravy into a side dish, leaving room for eggs, hash browns, or any other breakfast items.

5. Black Bread

Kleinworth & Co. recipe for black bread combines molasses, cocoa, Starbucks instant coffee, and a few other ingredients to make a delicious breakfast bread that can be eaten plain or smeared with butter, jam, or jelly.

6. Blackberry Jam

Do breakfast your way with this blackberry jam recipe from Healing Tomato. It's easy to make and only requires three ingredients: fresh blackberries, sugar, and freshly squeezed lime juice.

7. Breakfast Burritos

If you're looking for a breakfast that's packed with protein, vitamins, and fiber, these egg, cheese, sausage, and hash brown breakfast burritos are perfect. The recipe is low fat and gluten-free.

8. Breakfast Potatoes

This recipe from Well Plated is a breakfast potato dish mixed with peppers and onions, making it a meal on its own. Requiring only 15 minutes of prep, this recipe could become one of your go-to meals.

9. Cheesy Grits with Bacon

Spicy Southern Kitchen's recipe for cheesy grits calls for cheese, grits, and onions, but why stop there? Add bacon to make this delicious breakfast even better.

10. Cherry Chocolate Oatmeal

Oatmeal can be bland and boring but not with this version from Running to the Kitchen. This recipe uses a chocolate and cherry base, with a topping made of cherries, water, and almond extract.

11. Cinnamon Rolls

If you love cinnamon rolls, try making them in the slow cooker. This recipe from Martha Stewart only takes 90 minutes to cook.

12. Granola

Cooking in a crockpot isn't just for meals and sides; you can make snacks too, like this granola recipe from Barefeet in the Kitchen. It combines oats, almonds, and raisins with peanut butter, honey, coconut oil, cinnamon, and vanilla for a great midday munchie.

13. Ham and Potato Casserole

This ham and potato casserole recipe from The Spruce hits the spot, but they also give some creative variations to try, like adding vegetarian sausage or using Cajun or Creole seasoning to spice things up.

14. Pumpkin Butter

Bless This Mess has five-minute pumpkin butter recipe that can be made with just five ingredients. You can use it to swirl into yogurt, spread it on butter, or eat it right out of the jar!

15. Quinoa Breakfast Bowl

This breakfast bowl recipe from ifoodreal uses quinoa, coconut milk, maple syrup or honey, and any fruits and nuts you'd like on top to create a healthy breakfast.

16. Southwestern Breakfast Casserole

Transform breakfast into a fiesta with Taste of Home's Southwestern breakfast casserole recipe, which blends eggs, cheese, ham, black beans, corn, and pico de gallo. You can even substitute chorizo for ham for an added twist.

17. Sticky Pecan Buns

Amy's Healthy Baking's recipe for sticky pecan buns is incredibly accurate – these rolls are so gooey and delicious that you can barely recognize what's underneath. They are so sweet and sticky and a definite crowd-pleaser.

18. Strawberry Oatmeal

This recipe from A Mind"full" Mom combines oats with strawberries, milk, Greek yogurt, cinnamon, and vanilla for a sweet and creamy start to the day. The prep only takes five minutes, and then it all goes into the slow cooker for eight hours – exactly the right amount of time you should spend sleeping.

19. Veggie Omelet

Dietist have a great recipe for making a veggie omelet in a crockpot. Mixing broccoli, red pepper, yellow onion, and tomato with eggs, cheese, and some seasoning makes for a delicious, healthy breakfast.

20. Yogurt

Did you know that you can make large batches of yogurt in your slow cooker? Bless This Mess has the details. It's easy, only requires two ingredients, and 12 hours of time, but the prep is super easy, taking only five short minutes!

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