Celebrate with an Autumn Brunch from Smucker's®

Tips to keep your brunches fun and festive

• Keep the guest list to a number you can comfortably sit around your tables. Brunches are meant to be relaxing, laidback affairs – which can be tough to do if you’re balancing plates on your knees and drink glasses in your hands.


• Shop the day before and prepare as much of the food ahead of time as is possible.


• Brunch – half breakfast, half lunch. So be sure to create a menu that offers both the comforting savoury and sweet foods of breakfast along with the satisfying dishes of lunch.


• Take this opportunity to serve a dish that you’ve been dying to try but haven’t had the time or audience to serve it. Exotic or everyday – a surprising new addition to your brunch menu will be welcomed by all.


• Since brunch will be the first meal of the day for many of your guests, be sure to have a pot of Folgers® coffee ready to greet them.


• Have two or three luscious desserts to finish the meal, along with a pretty platter of fresh fruit.


• If you have a crowd joining you, arrange your food as a buffet instead of serving it family-style.


• Take inspiration from the bounty of nature this autumn and decorate your tables with pretty leaves, decorative gourds, apples, cinnamon sticks and pinecones.