How to Make A Mother's Day Brunch Board

Lately, charcuterie boards have been a trend across social media. I saw people making meat and cheese boards for at home game nights, dessert boards for Easter celebrations, and hummus dip board to satisfy their snacking cravings. So my sister and I decided to jump on the trend and create a brunch board for Mother’s Day and it turned out to be a lot of fun! Below are the items we made for our board, but I’m sure any brunch food items you think of and/or craving would be great.

Egg and Pesto Breakfast Sandwiches- Scrambled eggs is a brunch staple, but I wanted to put a more creative spin on it. Thanks to Half Baked Harvest for the inspiration! These sandwiches were a hit!

Herb Cheese and Ham Buns- No brunch is complete without some type of buns and this is our version! We got the recipe from Half Baked Harvest, however, I ended up making a few adjustments to the dough by adding more flour because the original recipe resulted in extremely sticky dough that was impossible to work with. I also didn’t have everything bagel seasoning on hand so I simply added a few random spices and ham.

Fried Chicken Tenders- We’ve been obsessed with our air fryer lately and thought these fried chicken tenders would be the perfect complement to the blueberry pancakes we also made. We simply substituted the mozzarella sticks in this Delish recipe for fried chicken.

Turkey Bacon- I’m a huge bacon lover, but normal bacon just feels too heavy so I substituted with turkey bacon and threw it in the air fryer for 7 minutes.

Orange and Chocolate Chip Muffins- Our refrigerator had too many oranges that needed to be used up, so I thought an orange themed pastry would be perfect. Thanks to this recipe by Laura in the Kitchen, I created these delicious (and surprisingly crispy!) orange and chocolate chip muffins. Muffins plate really well and last longer than other pastries, so I made them the night before in order to save time.

Blueberry Pancakes- Use this recipe if you want fluffy yummy pancakes! This was my first time making pancakes from scratch instead of using a pancake mix so I have to say I was a little nervous over how they would turn out. But this recipe is easy to follow and you can add whatever filling you want- I used up leftover blueberries that I had.

Fruit- I used strawberries and grapes to brighten up my brunch board. Most of the food I made was brown so the colorful red and purple livened up my board. I also placed the fruit in bowls to create break up the food setup a little, but also to prevent my board from getting wet and the surrounding food items from getting soggy.

I loved creating the brunch board for my mom and can’t wait to make more boards later for other guests!