25+ Best Ideas: What to Serve with Cinnamon Rolls

Breakfast meats, such as sausage and bacon, offer a savory, salty flavor to your meal. They’re a potent energy source, especially when paired with a sweet dish like cinnamon buns.

Grab the instructions for cooking bacon in the oven and wake up to the smell of cinnamon rolls and bacon.

Eggs are one of the most common breakfast foods. Scrambled, over easy, poached, or fried -- no matter how you cook eggs, they are the best thing to serve with cinnamon rolls.

A hard-boiled egg is also a good choice in the morning. Read up on how to cook perfect hard-boiled eggs.

Full of fiber, steel-cut oatmeal is a great way to get a nutritious breakfast. Now you will feel less guilty about eating that decadent cinnamon roll in the morning.

Hash browns throw a little savory flavor in with your sweet pastry. Make your own cinnamon rolls with fried hash browns for a Christmas morning breakfast. Festive and delicious!

Whip up a healthy smoothie to drink while you bake cinnamon rolls. The smoothie and bun combination is a habit you will want to keep.

Eat yogurt in the morning with your cinnamon roll. Alone, yogurt might not be enough. But with a warm roll, it will hit the spot. Try Greek yogurt for a protein punch.

Start with a side of fruit before chowing down on your cinnamon roll. An orange, banana, or fresh raspberries are all respectable breakfast fruits.

Fill your breakfast burrito with eggs, sausage, and hashbrowns. Or go the vegetarian route with black beans and potatoes.

Either savory choice will taste great next to a sweet cinnamon roll.

Breakfast casseroles are usually savory recipes full of scrambled eggs, sausage, and potatoes. These casseroles are the perfect backdrop for a warm, fluffy cinnamon roll.

You can even throw the casserole in a slow cooker the night before. The next morning the casserole won't need to go in the oven with the rolls.

Make an omelet with eggs, cheese, meats, and veggies. An omelet paired with a cinnamon roll can be a hearty and satisfying meal.

Pull together fresh seasonal fruit to make a fruit salad for brunch. Or make an ambrosia salad that is more like a dessert salad.

You can also try a sweet spicy Mexican fruit salad. Any of these options are fantastic with cinnamon rolls.

Muffins, cinnamon rolls, and other baked goods are excellent items to serve together at a brunch.

Serve banana muffins, blueberry buttermilk muffins, or zucchini breakfast muffins. Each can be topped with a cinnamon streusel that matches the cinnamon rolls you serve.

Mini quiches are easy to make in a muffin pan. Make them with spinach, mushrooms, sausage, and more. They are the protein to balance out cinnamon roll’s carbs.

Bread and soup go hand in hand. Why not make the side of bread a cinnamon roll?

Cinnamon rolls go well with pumpkin soup, butternut squash soup, or split pea soup. Give it a try!

Chili and cinnamon rolls are the perfect dinner combination to serve right before the kids head out for trick-or-treating. Or for any chilly night.

Try the rolls with white chicken chili. Just one of the many side dishes to serve with chili.

Make your family’s night by serving cinnamon rolls with a potato bar. Bake the potatoes and then load them with all the fixings. Then sweeten your plate with a cinnamon roll.

Sloppy joes are an easy dinner to throw together for a crowd. Even if that crowd is your family. Add a batch of cinnamon rolls to the table and let the compliments roll in.

Check out this post on how to doctor up Manwich sloppy joes. You are going to love the recipe.

You can afford to splurge on a sweet side when you serve healthy Cobb salad for dinner. A Cobb salad is composed of lettuce, grilled chicken, crispy bacon, hard-boiled eggs, cheese, and tomatoes. All drizzled with a special Cobb salad dressing.

Salad and cinnamon rolls? You betcha!

Warm cinnamon rolls with a scoop of vanilla ice cream will take the dessert to a whole new level. The best way to eat leftover rolls the next day is by topping them with ice cream. Ice cream can soften pastries that are going stale.

Crazy for carbs? Serve cinnamon rolls and donut holes at your next shindig. If you don't have enough time to make the donuts from scratch, grab a dozen from your local donut bakery.

Snickerdoodles are a wonderful choice to offer with cinnamon rolls during the holidays. They feel festive with their cinnamon sugar flavor.

Try a batch of snickerdoodles without cream of tartar. Or, if you are feeling the pumpkin vibe, try pumpkin snickerdoodles.

A bite of fudge is all you need for a cinnamon roll two-dessert party. The roll is warm and the fudge is room temperature. Grab this great recipe for Nestle Toll House fudge. Stir in marshmallows, nuts, coconut, or dried fruit.

A little chocolate with cinnamon, anyone? Warm brownies and warm cinnamon rolls are a perfect match. Pair the rolls with fudgy, cakey, or blond brownies.

Grab a box of Ghirardelli brownie mix to start the party. Buy here.

Present a nice bowl of caramel corn with your pan of warm cinnamon rolls. Together the two desserts are wonderful to serve before trick-or-treating or a corn maze.

Grab a bag of gourmet caramel corn.

Munch on your Chex mix. Take a bite of your cinnamon roll. You will love the textural contrast between the two desserts.