These egg cup bites are great for meal prep or for when you have to cook for a few people. Or especially when you have some picky eaters, and everyone wants something different.
Technically you can make 12 different versions per tray… but I think that kind of defeats the purpose so for this one I just stuck to 3:
- Spinach, roasted pepper, and ricotta
- Pepperoni and cream cheese
- Bacon egg and cheese
As always, I am not a professional cook, so this is less of a recipe and more of a “this is what I did” kind of play by play.
Spinach, roasted pepper and ricotta
Chop up half a red pepper and fill each hole of the muffin tray about a third of the way up.
Place them into an oven at 350 for about 10-15 minutes until they soften. Take the tray out and begin layering the other ingredients.
Fair warning, the way I assembled mine, there was absolutely no integrity and it fell apart after cooking.
With that being said, first layer in the ricotta, then the spinach. Leave enough room for the egg on top.
Now that I think of it, if you mix the egg in with the spinach after the peppers, it should hold everything else together. Then you can plop on some ricotta on top like a Margherita pizza.
Speaking of eggs, you can crack them straight in, or beat and pour in. Whichever is your preference.
This then goes into the oven for about 20 minutes until the eggs are set. As they cool sprinkle on some garlic salt and pepper.
Pepperoni and cream cheese
Pepperoni can give off a lot of grease and will burn easily so I didn’t place them with the bacon and peppers.
Instead layer the bottom with the pepperoni. Top with an egg, beaten or whole.
Cube up your cream cheese into small marshmallow sized pieces. Spread them out on top.
These will go into the oven at 350 for 20 minutes until the eggs are set as well.
Bacon egg and cheese
These get simpler as I go on. Rim each muffin tin with a slice of bacon. Let this cook for 15 minutes in the oven at 350.
Then drop the egg in the middle and top with cheese of your choice. I used Colby jack.
Place back into oven at 350 for 20 minutes until the eggs set (sound familiar).
Top with salt and pepper after they are done and enjoy.
