Cheese and Bacon Muffins - Real Recipes from Mums

Makes 24
45 minutes
Difficulty Easy
11 Ingredients

Cheese and Bacon Muffins are one recipe you really need to know by heart!

No matter who’s hungry or who’s dropped in to visit, whipping up a batch of these little beauties will be a huge hit!

This particular Cheese and Bacon Muffins Recipe cooks up beautifully – golden brown in the oven in no time. We love the addition of zucchini in this recipe – adds flavour, texture but also glimpses of green veg which makes us feel even healthier just looking at it

Quick, easy, tasty and healthy Cheese and Bacon Muffin – Great for lunch boxes and they freeze beautifully too.

Ingredients (makes 24 Muffins)

2 Bacon rashers, trimmed
2 cups Grated zucchini
1 cup SR flour
1 cup Plain Flour
1 - 2 tbsps Bertolli Light in Taste Olive Oil
1tsp Baking powder
1 cup Milk
2 Eggs
1/2 cup Cheese
2 tbs Sweet chilli
To taste Salt, pepper, parsley and basil

Method

Pan fry the diced bacon in a little olive oil. Heat oven to 190 degrees celsius (170ç fan forced). Line or grease muffin pans (mix makes approx. 12 large and 24 mini muffins)
Mix flours and baking powder into a bowl. Make a well in the centre add milk, 1 tbsp olive oil, egg and mix well.
Drain excess juice from zucchini and add to mix along with bacon, cheese, sweet chilli and herbs.
Spoon mixture into oiled pans. Bake for 25minuts or until golden. Remove from oven and let stand for 5 minutes before transferring to wire rack

Notes

Want to mix it up a little? Use the basic Cheese and Bacon Muffin mixture (step 2) and then you can add whatever you like!

Bertolli Light In Taste Olive Oil for Bertolli Recipe Integration

We used Bertolli Light in Taste Olive Oil in this recipe and couldn't be happier with the way the subtle olive flavour added to the result. Bertolli is the world’s no. 1 olive oil brand. Bertolli Light in Taste is pure olive oil that has a mild flavour that’s still full of character. It’s especially good when you want your olive oil to play a supporting role or when cooking with lighter flavours. You can use it anywhere you would use vegetable oil. It’s particularly good to use when baking, you get wonderfully moist cakes and it’s so easy to use. Bertolli olive oil contains just crushed olives, nothing else. Bertolli Light in Taste Olive Oil is available at Woolworths and selected IGA stores nationally.

192 Comments

- - mom111059 said
  - 14 Jan 2021
    9:04 pm
Mmmmm these look amazing. Thanks

- - mom461384 said
  - 13 Jan 2021
    7:20 pm
How delicious! My dinner for tonight has officially been decided!
- mom461384 replied
  
  14 Jan 2021 , 11:17 pm
  They were awesome!
  - Lovesthecuddles replied
    
    16 Jan 2021 , 1:52 am
    
    Wow yum!
- - mom111059 said
  - 03 Jan 2021
    10:12 pm
Great for lunch box. Will be trying this one for sure. Thanks

- - P&M'smum said
  - 29 Dec 2020
    7:31 am
I find savoury muffins a very interesting concept and wonder if my kids will like this as much as the sweet versions.

- - Frankiielot said
  - 05 Dec 2020
    10:25 pm
I love cheese and bacon bread so this would be something new to try.
Love how it has zucchini in it as we have heaps growing but never use them!

- - Andy said
  - 29 Nov 2020
    11:48 pm
Love the sound of these, especially all the vegetables.

- - mom470069 said
  - 05 Nov 2020
    10:49 pm
These look so good. Will definitely be making them with the kids

- - BellaB said
  - 30 Oct 2020
    7:10 pm
Cheese and bacon is such a great combination.

- - saffy86 said
  - 17 Oct 2020
    11:53 pm
I’m going to make these thank you! Love the idea of the sweet chilli sauce.

- - Carli85 said
  - 12 Oct 2020
    6:26 pm
Definitely going to give these a try!

- - 222jodes said
  - 30 Sep 2020
    3:45 pm
Yum and the addition of sweet chilli is a master stroke !

- - mom470037 said
  - 31 Aug 2020
    11:29 pm
I’m putting this on my list to make over the weekend yum!!!

- - mummaJo said
  - 26 Aug 2020
    8:17 pm
I love savoury muffins. Will have to try this recipe!

- - mom111464 said
  - 22 Aug 2020
    12:21 pm
I love making little muffins. I wonder if they would work well in the pie maker?

- - Mumma'sLittleHelpers said
  - 31 Jul 2020
    1:39 pm
I have always failed at making tasty cheesy muffins so def trying this recipe!