Mac and cheese cupcakes

I have recently came across mac and cheese cupcakes recipe and decided to give it a go. Those little mac and cheese casseroles ware tasty. But next time I will add more spices, I think Tabasco sauce and some tomatoes would make them taste even better.  They are perfect for picnics as they tasty when warm or cold.

Ingredients for 12 cupcakes:

• 220g macaroni
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 egg
• 250ml milk
• 150g shredded Cheddar cheese
• 150g mozzarella cheese
• 80g dry bread crumbs
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp salt

Preheat the oven to 180C.  Unless you don't use non stick muffin tin slightly grease muffin tin holes. Set aside.

Cook the pasta al dente. Add some salt to the boiling water. When cooked, drain the pasta and place the pasta back in the pot. 

Stir in the butter and whisked egg. Then pour in the milk and add the mozzarella cheese and half of the Cheddar cheese. Mix well all ingredients.

Spoon the pasta mixture into muffin tin holes. Divide the mixture evenly.

In separate bowl mix together the salt, bread crumbs and olive oil. Sprinkle each cupcake top with this mixture. Then place on top of each cupcake remaining Cheddar cheese.  

Insert the muffin tin into preheated oven and bake for 30 minuets.

Remove form the oven and leave them for few minutes in the tin. Serve warm or cold.

Enjoy !

Ham, pineapple and tomato muffins

It is high time to bake savoury muffins. A few days ago I found on this web site interesting recipe. I gathered all ingredients and result you can see on pictures. Almost forget to mention that I changed original recipe a little.

Ingredients for 9 muffins:

• 60g wholegrain flour
• 95g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 big tomato 
• 110g can pineapple pieces in natural juice, drained
• 40g ham, chopped
• 70g cheese, grated
• 1 egg
• 100ml milk
• 60ml olive oil*

*olive oil has very strong flavour, for me it was too strong for this type of muffins. In my opinion olive oil taste better in  sun dried tomato muffins. Next time I will be making those I will swap olive oil with sunflower oil for sure.

Preheat oven to 200C. Grease muffin tin holes.

Sift the flours, sugar, baking powder in one bowl. Wash tomato, remove seeds and chop, put into dry ingredients mixture. Chop the pineapple and add to the mixture. Dice ham and add to the mixture. At last add grated cheese. Combine all ingredients.

In measuring jug with a fork mix together the egg, milk and olive oil. Pour this mixture into dry ingredients. Combine all ingredients. Spoon the batter into muffin tin holes. Bake for 20-25 min. Cool muffins down on wire rack.

Enjoy !