This easy breakfast spread for a group of kids and teens is simple, generous and stress-free. Serve mini crumpets with crispy bacon, strawberries, cereal, yoghurt, juice and a few easy extras for a crowd-pleasing morning meal.
If you’re feeding a group of hungry kids or teenagers in the morning, this is such an easy breakfast spread to put together. It feels generous, but it doesn’t require much actual cooking — which is always a win.
As a mom of teens, we regularly have groups of boys staying over! You always want them to start the day with some protein and of course something fun! This breakfast combo seems to go down a treat!
The bulk of the breakfast was made up of:
- A large portion of crispy bacon (the much-needed protein!)
- A batch of mini crumpets (something fun)
I used about 1 kg of streaky bacon, which cooked down to roughly 350 g, and that was enough to feed six hungry teenage boys. There were no leftovers so if you have more kids than that, please adjust quantities accordingly.
The recipe to cook crispy bacon in the oven is listed below, however I sometimes put the bacon onto a stovetop pan and just fry it on low whilst I get everything else ready.
You can also bulk out the breakfast table with a few easy extras. I put out a punnet of strawberries, which went down really well, along with syrup for the crumpets, a few cereals, milk and about 2 litres of orange juice or mixed fruit juice.
For the cereals, just use whatever you already have on hand — no need to overthink it. I also bought those tiny little probiotic dairy drinks, which were surprisingly popular. Mini tubs of yoghurt would work just as well too.
Here is a list of everything you need:
- 1kg bacon (streaky or shoulder) – recipe below for oven method
- 1 batch of mini crumpets – recipe below
- A punnet of strawberries, washed and sliced in half
- A few cereal options (usually whatever you have in the pantry!)
- Jug of fresh milk
- 2 litres of orange juice or mixed fruit juice
- Mini probiotic dairy drinks or mini tubs of yoghurt, as an alternative to the probiotic drinks
- Anything else you already have on hand, such as extra fruit, muesli or granola
- Syrup/honey for the crumpets
Mini Crumpets
Prep Time: 5 mins- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 25 mins
Yield: 35–40 Mini Crumpets 1x
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Pin RecipeDescription
These Mini Crumpets are wonderfully light, fluffy and easy to make. The simple batter comes together in minutes using a handful of basic pantry ingredients and they cook up quickly into golden little crumpets with those signature holes that are perfect for soaking up butter, syrup or jam.
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup yoghurt
- 1 cup milk
- ¼ cup sugar
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Plus:
- Butter for frying
- Syrup for serving
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a separate bowl or jug, whisk the eggs, yoghurt, milk, sugar, vegetable oil and vanilla essence until smooth.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and whisk until smooth and combined. The batter should be slightly thick.
- Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat and lightly grease with a little butter.
- Drop tablespoonfuls of batter into the pan to form mini crumpets. Cook for 1 minute or so per side, until bubbles appear on the surface and then flip and cook the other side until golden.
- Repeat with the remaining batter, adding more butter to the pan as needed.
- Serve warm with butter and syrup. Keep crumpets warm in the oven at a low temp, around 90°C is good!
Notes
These mini crumpets can be kept warm in a low-temp oven while you cook the remaining crumpets in the batch.
Crispy Bacon
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 15-20 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: +-350g cooked bacon
Description
Quick, easy, tried-and-tested recipe for crispy bacon for a bunch of hungry teens!
Ingredients
1 kg bacon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius (or 400 degrees Fahrenheit)
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper (also called baking paper) or tin foil – If you don’t have tin foil or parchment paper, you can use a rectangular glass casserole dish without any foil or parchment paper.
- Place the slices of bacon on top of the baking paper or foil in a single layer.
- Cook the bacon for 15-20 minutes until crispy or according to your preference. There is no need to flip the bacon – it will cook evenly top and bottom.
- Remove bacon from the oven and place bacon on paper towel to cool and drain the f
- Repeat again if you have more bacon to cook or alternatively use 2-3 baking trays and cook all at once.
Notes
Equipment needed: Baking tray and foil / parchment paper OR a rectangular glass baking dish
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