Crisp Bacon Muffins Food

BASIC MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F. Butter muffin pans. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a large bowl. Add the egg, milk, and butter, stirring only enough to dampen the flour; the batter should not be smooth. Spoon into the muffin pans, filling each cup about two-thirds full. Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes each.
• Blueberry Muffins.
• Use 1/2 cup sugar. Reserve 1/4 cup of the flour, sprinkle it over 1 cup blueberries, and stir them into the batter last.
• Pecan Muffins.
• Use 1/4 cup sugar. Add 1/2 cup chopped pecans to the batter. After filling the cups, sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and more chopped nuts.
• Whole-Wheat Muffins.
• Use 3/4 cup whole-wheat flour and 1 cup white flour.
• Date or Raisin Muffins.
• Add 1/2 cup chopped pitted dates or 1/3 cup raisins to the batter.
• Bacon Muffins.
• Add 3 strips bacon, fried crisp and crumbled, to the batter.

BACON CORN MUFFINS WITH SAVORY CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Place bacon onto a baking sheet and bake until crisp about 12 minutes. Remove from baking sheet and place onto a plate lined with a paper towel. Reserve 1 tablespoon of the bacon fat. Once bacon is cool enough to handle, chop into small pieces.
• Spray a 24-count mini muffin tray with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
• In a large bowl combine flour, cornmeal, salt, baking powder, and brown sugar. In a separate bowl whisk the milk and egg. Whisk the milk mixture, melted butter and bacon fat into the dry ingredients. Add 3/4 of the chopped cooked bacon, reserve remaining 1/4 for a garnish.
• Fill each muffin cup with 1 tablespoon of the batter so the cups are filled about 3/4 of the way up. Bake in oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted into the muffins comes out clean. Allow to cool completely before icing.
• While muffins are cooling, in a medium bowl beat the cream cheese, honey and hot sauce with a hand mixer until soft and combined. Add 3/4 of the sliced chives, reserve remaining 1/4 for a garnish. Mix until well combined.
• Transfer mixture to a pastry bag and snip off the end.
• Once the muffins have cooled, pipe a small amount of the cream cheese mixture on top of each one. Garnish with remaining crumbled bacon and remaining chopped chives.

BACON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Grease 12 muffin cups.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Cook bacon in a pan until crisp, then chop into small pieces.
• Mix together flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
• In a seperate bowl mix egg, milk, and oil.
• Add all at once to the dry ingredients along with bacon until just combined.
• Mixture will look somewhat lumpy but do not mix more.
• Fill the muffin cups 2/3rds of the way full.
• Bake@ 25 minutes.

BACON AND SCALLION CORN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Line a standard 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
• In a large nonstick skillet, cook the bacon, over medium heat until crisp and brown. Transfer the bacon to paper towels; drain and cool.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, hot sauce and eggs. Combine the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and pepper in a food processor. Drop in the cold butter cubes. Using on/off turns, blend until the butter is cut in finely and the mixture resembles a coarse meal. Pour the dry ingredients over the buttermilk mixture. Scatter the bacon and green onions over the batter. Using a thin, flexible spatula, fold the batter together, scraping up the liquids from the bottom each time and turning the bowl as you fold. Do not over-fold; some dry patches are fine. Using a rounded 1/3 cup of batter for each muffin, fill the paper liners.
• Bake until puffed and browning at edges, and a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes. Let the muffins stand 5 to 10 minutes. Twist each muffin in place to loosen the edges from the pan. Lift the muffins out onto a rack and cool.

BACON CHEESE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until crisp, about 10 minutes. Drain the bacon slices on paper towels and crumble once cooled.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Coat 24 muffin cups with cooking spray.
• Mix flour, Cheddar cheese, baking powder, garlic salt, and black pepper together in a large bowl.
• Beat eggs, milk, and vegetable oil together in a small bowl; stir into flour mixture just until moistened. Gently fold bacon through the batter. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm.

SAVORY CHEESE MUFFINS WITH BACON AND CHIVES

Steps:

• Cook bacon until crisp.
• Cool and crumble.
• Set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Prepare muffin tin by spraying with vegetable oil spray.
• Melt butter over medium heat in a small skillet.
• Remove from heat and add chives.
• Cool to room temperature.
• In a medium bowl combine eggs and milk using a whisk.
• Add butter/chive mixture, cheese and crumbled bacon.
• In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
• Stir to mix.
• Add to egg mixture, stirring only until blended thorougly.
• Spoon mixture into prepared muffin cups, filling about 2/3 full.
• (An ice cream scooper is a great tool for this purpose.) Bake 20- 25 minutes, or until muffin tops just begin to brown.
• Remove from oven and remove muffins from tin.
• Cool them on a wire rack.

MAPLE BACON MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour, bacon, baking powder and salt.
• In another bowl, whisk the remaining ingredients together.
• Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
• Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400F for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

CHEESE & BACON BREAKFAST MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a frying pan (skillet) fry bacon over a medium-high heat until light and golden stirring often, about 4 minutes.
• Remove to a kitchen paper covered plate.
• Increase heat to high, add oil and mushrooms to the frying pan and cook for 5 minutes till tender and then set aside to cool.
• Preheat oven to 200 degree celsius.
• Grease a 12 hole muffin tin (regular size) or a 6 texas size (3/4 cup) muffin tin.
• Sift flour, baking powder and salt and pepper into a bowl and add cheese and chives and mix together.
• Whisk butter, egg and milk in a jug and pour into dry ingredients, stirring gently until almost combined.
• Fold through the bacon and mushrooms.
• Spoon mixture into prepared pan.
• Bake for about 15 to 18 minutes for regular size muffins and about 20 to 25 for texas size.

BACON, GRUYèRE, AND SCALLION MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F. and butter twelve 1/3-cup muffin tins.
• In a skillet cook bacon over moderately low heat until crisp and transfer to paper towels to drain, reserving 1/4 cup bacon fat. Crumble bacon.
• In a bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, Gruyère, scallion, and bacon. In a small bowl whisk together milk, egg, mustard, and reserved bacon fat. Add milk mixture to flour mixture, stirring until just combined (do not overmix).
• Divide batter evenly among muffin tins and bake in middle of oven 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden and a tester comes out clean.

SAVORY BACON, CHEDDAR AND SCALLION MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Generously grease a 12-cup muffin pan or a giant 6-cup muffin pan with butter.
• Cook the bacon in a medium skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until browned and crisp, about 10 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon to a paper towel-lined plate.
• Heat the 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the scallions and cook until slightly wilted, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
• Whisk the egg, broth, milk, olive oil, sugar, mustard and salt in a large bowl. Gently stir in the flour and baking powder until evenly combined.
• Fold in the cheese, cooked scallions and cooked bacon.
• Divide the mixture among the muffin cups and bake until the muffins puff up, are golden around the edges and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes for a 12-cup muffin pan or 25 to 27 minutes for a giant 6-cup muffin pan.
• Let the muffins cool 5 minutes in the pan, then invert onto a wire a rack before serving.

BEST EVER MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
• Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Make a well in the center. In a small bowl or 2 cup measuring cup, beat egg with a fork. Stir in milk and oil. Pour all at once into the well in the flour mixture. Mix quickly and lightly with a fork until moistened, but do not beat. The batter will be lumpy. Pour the batter into paper lined muffin pan cups.
• Variations: Blueberry Muffins: Add 1 cup fresh blueberries. Raisin Muffins: Add 1 cup finely chopped raisins. Date Muffins: Add 1 cup finely chopped dates. Cheese Muffins: Fold in 1 cup grated sharp yellow cheese. Bacon Muffins: Fold 1/4 cup crisp cooked bacon, broken into bits.
• Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden.

CREAMED CORN, PARSLEY & BACON ON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Fry bacon in a non-stick pan until crisp; drain.
• Heat corn in a pan over a low heat, add in bacon & parsley.
• Spread muffins with butter and top with corn mixture.
• Serve garnished with extra parsley if desired.

CRISP BACON MUFFINS

Steps:

• 1. Saute bacon until crisp, and chop fine.
• 2. Sift flour, sugar, salt and baking powder together.
• 3. Add the bacon.
• 4. Combine the egg, milk and bacon fat, and blend into the first mixture.
• 5. Pour into buttered muffin tins, one-third full, and bake at 425 for 15-20 minutes.