Holiday Bread Guide: Our Best Recipes

The holidays make us dream of all the breads: dinner rolls, French bread, cinnamon rolls, artisan bread. We’ve collected all our favorite recipes here to make those dreams come right to the table!

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We’re suckers for good bread around here. And, seriously, what’s a holiday meal without giant, pillowy dinner rolls? Or a holiday breakfast without fluffy Belgian waffles, or, oh wait, fresh baked cinnamon rolls? OR BOTH!?!?!

Over the years, some favorite recipes have “risen” to the top. This is a short list of our most-loved breads recipes from straight-up dinner rolls to cinnamon rolls to artisan bread and a few surprises.

Take your pick — or try them all. 🍞🥖🥐

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Basic Bread Recipes

This quick and easy bread dough is ready in way less than 20 minutes. It's perfect for pizza crusts, cinnamon rolls, and even dinner crescent rolls when you're in a pinch for time!

Quick & Versatile Bread Dough: This easy recipe is ready in less than 30 minutes. It’s perfect for pizza crusts, cinnamon rolls, and even dinner rolls when you’re in a pinch for time!

These dinner rolls are soft as pillows and perfectly brushed with melted butter. If you're looking for the perfect roll recipe, you've come to the right place!

Soft & Buttery Dinner Rolls: These dinner rolls are soft as pillows and perfectly brushed with melted butter. If you’re looking for the perfect roll recipe, this is IT.

Mom's Famous Homemade Bread

Mom’s Famous Homemade Bread: This simple recipe for homemade bread is a family favorite. Use it for sandwiches, french toast, or straight out of the oven smothered in butter!

My Aunt Carol's favorite crescent rolls are always the main event of every family get-together!

Aunt Carol’s Crescent Rolls: My Aunt Carol’s homemade crescent rolls are the main event of every family gathering! I love them with butter and homemade strawberry jam.

Homemade French Bread is surprisingly easy to make! And there's nothing quite like a warm loaf fresh out of the oven.

Homemade French Bread: This French bread recipe is a must-have staple recipe in every home cook’s repertoire. And once you go homemade, you’ll never want to go back to that store-bought bagged loaf again. Because nothing in the world compares with a hot, steamy, crusty loaf of soft french bread coming out of your oven.

The Fancy Breads

If you want to dress up your table a bit, these breaks look fancy but are actually super-easy!

Easy Overnight Artisan Bread

Easy Overnight Artisan Bread: Ridiculously easy artisan bread recipe that is super crusty on the outside and steamy soft on the inside. You won’t believe how fool-proof this recipe is!

Easy German Christmas Bread

Easy German Christmas Bread: This easy German Christmas Bread is my shortcut version of Stollen. Traditional Stollen is a German cake-like bread made with yeast and filled with candied fruit, almond paste, chocolate, and lots more. This easy version is a yeast bread that uses Rhodes Rhodes Bake-N-Serv® White Bread as the base, and you fill it with pieces of chocolate, nuts, candied cherries and orange zest, and almond paste.

snowflake bread

Snowflake Bread: As promised, this elegant Snowflake Bread is simpler to make than you would think. Especially since there is no actual bread making involved when you use Rhodes Thaw, Rise & Bake White Bread dough!

Breakfast Breads

Big Fat 1-Hour Cinnamon Rolls

Big, Fat One-Hour Cinnamon Rolls: This big one-hour cinnamon rolls recipe makes GINORMOUS rolls that take less than one hour to make!! It doesn’t get any better than this.

cinnamon roll pumpkins

Easy Cinnamon Roll Pumpkins: These Easy Cinnamon Roll Pumpkins are a fun and delicious breakfast idea for Fall! They come together quickly, since the recipe uses Rhodes Bake-n-Serve Rolls instead of making the dough from scratch. And I’ll show you a simple trick to shape your dough like a pumpkin. It’s so easy!

Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread Recipe

Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread: Level up your monkey bread with this extra easy Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread. We’ll use Pillsbury Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls to simplify the process. You’ll never make monkey bread the same way again!

Cranberry Walnut Pull Apart Bread with Maple Glaze

Cranberry Walnut Pull Apart Bread with Maple Cinnamon Glaze: This Cranberry Walnut Pull Apart Bread with Maple Cinnamon Glaze will melt in your mouth! Perfect for a special holiday breakfast.

The easiest, fluffiest, most perfect and delicious biscuits of all time. And the most fool-proof recipe you've ever seen!

The Most Perfect Biscuits: What makes these different from my own biscuit recipe, for starters, is the simplicity of the recipe. Seriously. It boggles my mind how ridiculously easy this recipe is. Unlike traditional biscuits, you actually make this in a food processor. Perfect every time.

easy & fluffy belgian waffles

Easy & Fluffy Belgian Waffles: These are our family’s very favorite homemade belgian waffles. Crispy on the outside, soft and steamy on the inside.

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