Cheese and Bacon Muffin

I always wanted to try to make some savoury muffin, but I never seems to have the right ingredients at home... until now!

After making the pizza, I have some left over cheese, and I also found some bacon in the fridge... lets roll out a tray of cheese and bacon muffins!

In my Muffin Bible, I found a recipe of Bacon & Tomato Muffin, and a recipe of Caraway & Cheese Muffin... but no Cheese & Bacon Muffin... ummm... so I modified the Caraway Muffin recipe and turned it into Cheese & Bacon one! =P

Ingredients:

2 cups self raising flour

1tbsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup grated cheese

4 rashes of short rind bacon, diced

1 egg

3/4 milk

50g butter, melted

1) Pan fried the bacon in frying pan. Set aside.

2) Sift flour, baking powder and salt together

3) Stir in grated cheese and bacon pieces

4) Combine egg and milk. Stir melted butter, egg and milk into dry ingredients until just combined

5) 3/4 fill greased muffin pans and bake at 200C for 15-20 min

When I made this muffin, the kitchen just filled with the smell of the goodness of bacon! I think you'd really enjoy that moment if you are a bacon lover! The tray of muffins came out of the oven, and each of them had a perfect golden colour. I took a bite, and it has the thick texture created by the melted cheese... however it lacked the saltiness that a savoury bite should have. Perhaps if I used parmesan cheese instead of the mozzarella cheese would fix the problem. The bacon pieces on the top of the muffins are crunchy and they are the sole flavour in these muffins.

In conclusion.... my preference is still my favourite raspberry muffins! hehehe...