Cheese and Bacon Muffins

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

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

Ingredients (makes 24 large muffins)

2 bacon rashers, trimmed
2 cups grated zucchini
1 cup SR flour
1 cup Plain Flour
1tsp 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

Pre-cook diced bacon. 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, 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 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!

147 Comments

- - mom19782016 said
  - 01 Nov 2019
    1:23 pm
What a delicious recipe! I’d add some carrot in there too

- - ella12 said
  - 31 Oct 2019
    4:37 pm
That sounds very nice and tasty.

- - Jbuttxx said
  - 24 Oct 2019
    5:04 am
Always a great way to add veggies into the diet. Yummo! And I find they freeze well too

- - rnash02 said
  - 21 Sep 2019
    12:14 pm
Yummy

- - rovermum said
  - 09 Sep 2019
    9:49 am
These sound absolutely delicious and something I’d love to make for a snack, lunch or party idea.

- - rachel1970 said
  - 08 Sep 2019
    10:01 am
Oh yummy, yummy. These would be great lunch box lunches or good for when the kids come home from school and want something to eat before dinner. Also good for a breakfast, very versatile and tasty.

- - DaffyD said
  - 08 Sep 2019
    9:56 am
These are great on the breakfast for those morning when it all goes wrong

- - Jbuttxx said
  - 08 Sep 2019
    7:31 am
Going to try these.for my breakfast meal prep this week. Will be super easy to reheat in the morning rush for work

- - shanika said
  - 07 Sep 2019
    9:21 pm
These are great for the breakfast or kids lunch boxes.

- - tessie said
  - 07 Sep 2019
    4:43 pm
I love this recipe and it’s going to come in very handy when I just want to make something quick and simple yet very tasty.

- - Ellen said
  - 07 Sep 2019
    7:30 am
Easy to make vegetarian, gluten free and diary free too.

- - mom265671 said
  - 07 Sep 2019
    12:01 am
These are the perfect snack to make. Yum

- - rnash02 said
  - 03 Sep 2019
    8:03 am
These sound tasty

- - mom325275 said
  - 31 Aug 2019
    4:10 pm
Sounds really yummmy

- - mom207052 said
  - 02 Aug 2019
    11:55 pm
Adding sweet chili sauce is interesting! Will give it a go to see how it adds to the flavour.