Mini Bacon Cheese Muffins
Mini Bacon Cheese Muffins
Mini Bacon Cheese Muffins. A fantastic savoury mini muffin recipe, which is super easy and perfect, tummy-filling goodness for the school holidays.
So simple even the kids can help. Mmmm, bacon. Mmmm, cheese. Mmmm, mini muffins!
Makes: 36 mini muffins or 20 minis & 6 regular muffin-size cupcakes
Ingredients
1 SPCA Blue Tick approved egg
1 cup milk
2 ½ cups self-raising flour
½ teaspoon paprika
a pinch of salt
75g butter, cut into small pieces
200g SPCA Blue Tick approved bacon, chopped into chunks
2 cups grated tasty cheese
Salt and Pepper
1 cup milk
2 ½ cups self-raising flour
½ teaspoon paprika
a pinch of salt
75g butter, cut into small pieces
200g SPCA Blue Tick approved bacon, chopped into chunks
2 cups grated tasty cheese
Salt and Pepper
Method
- Preheat your oven to 180°C.
- Line your mini muffin tins with colourful greaseproof paper cake cups (x36).
- Pan fry the bacon pieces for a few minutes, just to get a little golden and aromatic. Set aside.
- In a small bowl or cup, beat the egg with the milk.
- Sieve the flour, paprika and salt into a large bowl.
- Rub the butter into the flour mixture until it looks like breadcrumbs.
- Add the cooked bacon and cheese, then pour in the egg and milk mixture and mix thoroughly. If needed, add a dash more milk to get your consistency correct. Season further if desired with a little cracked pepper and sea salt.
- Spoon into the cases and cook in the oven for 12 minutes.
- Place on a wire rack to cool.
Tips
- Experiment with your family’s favourite cheese and meats. Use brie and bacon, or blue cheese and salami for a posher cupcake. An idea for ‘icing’ – just a smudge of creme fraiche across the top when cooled.
- Ideal lunchbox filler, this recipe has no sugar.
- Perfect canape or cocktail platter item. Serve still warm with knobs of butter.
- Make a mixture of mini and normal size to suit your family. Cook the larger ones for 20 minutes, rather than 12 minutes.
- I use sweet paprika in this recipe, but smoky paprika works well too.
