These easy Ham, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Muffins taste like your favorite ham & cheese biscuits. They are perfect for busy mornings when you don’t have time to cook but want to serve a hot, homemade meal.
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We’ve always been a grab a bowl of cereal kind of family.
I’d love to serve a hearty meal each morning but the chance of me having time to cook a hot fresh breakfast before school is slim.
It’s all because I tend to work late into the night and have too much to do in the a.m. 🙁
My mornings are…
coffee, (rush)
dog walk, shower, (rush)
lunches packed, (rush)
kids to school, and
off to work (rush)!
Sound familiar?
Slowing Down and Enjoying Breakfast
This year I’ve resolved to slow down, set up a better morning schedule, and recommit to homemade breakfasts.
Homemade Made Easy
Mornings are much easier for me if I plan ahead, pack lunches and backpacks the night before, and find easy recipes that the whole family enjoys to pre-make for breakfast.
These ham, egg, and cheese breakfast muffins have become a morning favorite.
They are easy to whip up and can be personalized to your personal taste, plus they refrigerate well and can be reheated in just a few seconds.
Enjoy Breakfast Together
I make a big batch of these muffins on the weekend when I have extra time. Then we can grab a muffin, reheat and enjoy a hot, homemade breakfast on weekday mornings.
It’s heaven to spend a few peaceful minutes around the table together before we go our separate ways.
The key to these muffins is using high-quality deli meat and tasty cheese. I use honey ham and sharp cheddar from Castle Wood Reserve®. Their meats which have no binders and no MSG plus they are Trans-fat free and gluten free. Castle Wood Reserve® is available in the deli aisle of your local Wal Mart.
The recipe makes 12 meal-size muffins. It keeps my family of 4 fed for 3 peaceful mornings!
The Best Ham, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Muffins
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The Best Ham, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Muffins
- Prep Time: 12 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 42 minutes
- Yield: 12 muffins 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: Breakfast
Description
These easy breakfast muffins taste like ham, egg, and cheese biscuits. They are perfect for busy morning when you don’t have time to cook but want to serve a hot, homemade meal. They freeze well.
Ingredients
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- 3 large eggs
- 3/4 cup skim milk
- 8 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, diced (reserve 1/4 cup)
- 8 ounces ham, diced
- 4 large eggs, cooked (lightly scrambled in a skillet)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a muffin tin with jumbo muffin liners. (Jumbo liners prevent the cheese from bubbling over.)
- Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Stir the melted butter into the flour mixture until a lumpy mix forms.
- Whisk the 3 raw eggs and the milk together and stir into the dry ingredients. Mix just to incorporate the liquid into the flour, do not over mix.
- Fold the cheese, scrambled eggs, and ham into the batter. It will be chunky and sticky.
- Scoop dough into prepare muffin tin, make 12 muffins.
- Top each muffin with a few small pieces of cheese.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out of the center of each muffin clean. Cool slightly and serve.
- Store in the refrigerator, reheat in the microwave.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 muffin
- Calories: 273
- Fat: 15.8
- Carbohydrates: 18.2
- Protein: 14.1
Keywords: ham egg and cheese muffins, breakfast muffins
I hope you try these easy and delicious ham, egg, and cheese breakfast muffins and recommit to homemade breakfasts.
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Kat
I’ve literally been researching how extra eggs in batter affect the finished product, trying to figure out how to cram in as much protein as possible. It never even occurred to me to cook them separately and include as another add-in – this is GENIUS! As a bonus, it keeps the other goodies from sinking to the bottom of the muffin during baking. I filled 12 (regular size) muffin liners heaped a little over-full, and they’ve got the perfect coffee-shop look of puffing gorgeously without spilling over. *chef’s kiss*
I took another commenter’s recommendation and threw in green onions, as well as my own “secret weapon” spice mix of dry mustard, garlic powder, and white pepper. I mix it up and keep in a container to add to mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, quiche, anything heavy-ish that would benefit from a little savoury zing! Makes the kitchen smell amazing too. These will become a regular feature! Thank you!
Kat
Out-of-the-oven update: the taste and texture are spot-on. However… and this is totally on me… I forgot to grease my muffin papers and quite a lot of the muffin comes off with them. Note for next time!
Megan Friedl
We always make a ham for the New Year, this is a BIG ham!! I made a ham braid (ham, broccoli and cheese wrapped in crescent dough. It’s awesome!) grilled cheese with ham, scrambled eggs and ham and still had a TON of ham left! I went on a search to find a breakfast sammich that didn’t require too much assembly. I had seen some with English muffins and…ugh, the looked great but I’m not trying to waste a day on an assembly line of muffins, egg, ham, cheese, then wrap them?! Forget it! Then, I found THIS!! Delicious!! I altered the recipe slightly. The hubs doesn’t like too much cheese in his breakfasty stuff (don’t ask, he’s weird) so I decreased the cheese to 5oz and didn’t put any on top. I inscreased the scrambled eggs to 6 eggs and added green onion (GAME CHANGER). Since these were for the hubs and I know him all to well I opted out of a paper liner (at 4am he might just eat it) and I sprayed my muffin tins with a baking release spray. After cooling for a bit they popped right out. Hubs can’t get enough of them!! He just finished the last one this morning and here I am, making a DOUBLE batch because I STILL have ham left! When I run out of ham (I have three more batches of muffin ham before I do) I can’t wait to try breakfast sausage links, sausage patties or BACON! Guys, MAKE THESE NOW!!!
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Bren
Megan, I am so glad you liked the muffins! They are a big hit with my husband too and perfect for leftover holiday ham. I agree, green onions are a delicious addition.
Melinda
Love these! I was looking for an egg muffin recipe that used flour because the all egg ones aren’t that appetizing to me when they aren’t fresh. I made these with organic flour, farm eggs, and bacon (instead of ham). So good! These would be awesome with sausage and would taste like a sausage egg and cheese biscuit! Recipe could use a little spice (black pepper and/or red pepper flakes) but that may just be a personal preference. Pinning this one!
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Melinda
Forgot to mention that this made 34 mini muffins filled all the way up and I baked for 14 minutes.
Bren
Thanks, Melinda!
Jen
I made these this morning and they were fabulous. It’s a lazy Sunday morning and I didn’t have muffin papers OR ham so I needed to improvise.
I cut little circles of parchment paper for the bottom of the muffin tins and lightly brushed the sides (and rim!) with canola oil. I cooked the scrambled the eggs in very, very browned butter after sautéing 1\2 a shallot. Since I wasn’t including ham, I used salted butter.
Otherwise, I followed the directions exactly (incl the optional 1\2 tsp of salt). They were ready in 30 minutes and popped right out of the cups with the nudge of a spatula. The parchment paper on the bottom peeled off without a problem, too.
Can’t wait to try different combinations of breakfast goodies.
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Bren
Sound delicious, Jen!