I made these muffins on Sunday morning. Everyone was sick here and I just wanted to make something wholesome and homemade and … from my heart. I do not like seeing my people sick…
I have a bit of a ‘thing’ about muffins: muffins are not cake. They should NOT be light and fluffy – they should have some density. When I go out for morning tea, 90% of the time I opt for scones over a muffin for the simple reason that if I wanted to eat cake, I would order cake… I don’t get huffity about many things, but I do about muffins – go figure…
So, these are my Brunch Muffins. Perfect for a late breakfast or afternoon tea or a lunch box filler. They have no sugar and are deliciously easy!
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 20 – 25 mins
Serves: Makes 12 BIG muffins
Ingredients
175g bacon, roughly chopped
1 onion
1 cup peas
2 cups plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
150g vintage cheddar
2 eggs
100ml cream
200ml milk
3tbs olive oil
Salt & Pepper
Method
1. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees Celcius. Grease a 12 cup muffin tray – really well.
2. In a food processor, blitz the bacon, onion and peas until really finely chopped
3. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl.
4. Grate the cheese.
5. In a separate bowl, mix the eggs, cream, milk, oil and salt & pepper. Make a well in the flour and pour the liquid in. Mix until JUST combined, then add the bacon mixture and the cheese and mix gently again – but not too much – we don’t want cake! {If the mixture looks too dry, add a splash more milk – but the mixture should be dense enough that you have to scrape it off a spoon}
6. Spoon the mixture into the muffin tray and pop them into the oven.
7. Clean up your bench tops, make some coffee and lay out the Sunday papers while they cook.
8. They are cooked when they spring back after touching the top – you could use a skewer too – but it should not come out TOTALLY clean…
9. As soon as they come out of the oven, start gently releasing them from the muffin tray… Because of the cheese, they will stick a bit. Use a knife to just ease them away from the side and bottom of the pan.
10. Serve with coffee, in the sunshine with people you love who are wearing pajamas…
Variations…
This recipe is just so versatile… you can add so many different flavour combinations!
Like:
- Feta, sun dried tomatoes and capsicum
- Bacon, corn, onion and cheese
- Bacon, olives, onion, capsicum
- Ham, pineapple, sun dried tomatoes, pizza herbs
- Ham, camembert, onion
- Ham, basil and … some other fancy cheese….
- You get the idea!
I love brunch – do you?
What do you eat for brunch?
oh these just look so YUM! Definitely a great recipe to add to the brunch repitoire
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Yay! I hope they work!
{Hmmm….that is not TERRIBLY reassuring is it???} Haha!
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Hmm… I wonder if I could adapt these for my daughter using egg replacer – they sound yum.
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Hmmm… I am not sure. I have never used egg replacer… Worth a try though! These are so easy and tasty!
Thanks for taking the time to comment, means you are totally cool…
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Great idea sister. I’d ran out … The crepes with nutella have had their day.
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Yum! Crepes with Nutella!! Do you make them for brunch? My kids would LOVE that!
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Yum! I am always looking for suger free recipes, these look great
Awesome! Thanks for stopping by!
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I’ve never made savoury muffins – I only think of them as sweets. But I can see with this recipe they might be a bit like a quiche? Think I’m willing to give them a go.
Rachel @ The Kids Are All Right recently posted..Parental controls for the parent
They are more muffiny than quichey… But – really really yummy – especially straight from the oven with LOTS of butter….
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mmmmmm….thanks for sharing these delights. I am certainly going to give them a try
Excellent! Thanks so much for stopping by – lovely having some new peeps around.
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I’m a huge fan of bacon in most things, but I don’t think I could do it in a muffin sorry.
In fact, I think the should be another word. Because muffins are like cake.
This should be…. Something else! I can understand the frustration.
I hope we can still be friends.
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Haha! You didn’t like my curry from a few weeks ago either!
I will post something NOT food related next week… :0)
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They look great B. I’ll have to take out the bacon but yummo. Rachel x
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Ahhh…. you are a vegetarian…. Yes, you could leave the bacon out.
Thanks for stopping by again!
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yummo! love making things in batches like this.
Makes life so much easier
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Yes, it really does make it easier! I am going to make some little ones and freeze them for lunches. The girls seemed to like them – so that could be another sugar free thing that I am able to give them. Very hard to pack a lunch without lots of sugar, or is that just me?
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I made savoury muffins for lunch today!! Zucchini, Mushroom, Ham and Capsicum. I am on a bit of a savoury muffin kick at the moment, so I am looking forward to trying this recipe out! Thanks for sharing.
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Yay! Your muffins sound yummy! Have you shared the recipe?
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I’m with you B, muffins have got to have some substance. These ones sound delish, I think I’ll have to bookmark this page so I can give them a whirl!
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Cool! It is nice to find someone who GETS the muffin thing… they need to have DEPTH not fluffy…
Let me know if they work – I hope I have included enough oil…
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