Dessert For Breakfast: 12 Recipes Worth Waking Up For

These crisp double chocolate biscotti are tailor-made for dunking into into coffee, warm milk, or hot chocolate. (Kids love them, too!)

With chunks of sweet apples nestled in a tender and buttery rum cake, this French apple cake is the essence of simplicity.

Sweet, cake-like, and scented with cinnamon and nutmeg, these muffins taste remarkably like doughnuts.

This tender blueberry coffee cake topped with a crunchy cinnamon streusel is cleverly named for its habit-forming effect on boys.

Calling all chocoholics! These tender chocolate muffins with a double hit of chocolate make a delicious breakfast or after-school snack.

This rich and buttery sour cream coffee cake with cinnamon-nut swirl comes from the famous Zingerman’s Bakehouse in Ann Arbor, MI.

Inspired by Starbucks’ famous pumpkin scones, these breakfast treats are packed with pumpkin flavor.

Sweet, tart and gooey, these bars are a happy marriage of blondies and raspberry jam.

This luscious chocolate loaf cake from Ina Garten’s latest cookbook tastes as rich and chocolaty as a brownie.

This flaky phyllo pastry filled with brandy-soaked raisins, apples and walnuts, is delicious any time of day with a cup of coffee.

Kids love it, grown-ups love it…this pumpkin bread is hard to beat!

Flavored with lemon zest and lemon juice and drizzled with a tart lemon glaze, this is the ultimate pound cake for lemon lovers.