BREAKFAST CUPCAKES

This past Saturday I decided to be creative and make these very delicious breakfast cupcakes.
Now cupcakes may not seem exactly like an ideal breakfast food but don't knock it till you try it, its the perfect combination of all your favourite breakfast foods.

Ingredients

• 3 slices of Bacon
• 6 Slices of Ham
• 2 Potatoes
• 6 Eggs
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste

 How to prepare:

-Peel and slice potatoes in to medallions place in a pot of water and boil until potatoes are soft.

-Slice bacon into bits and fry as preferred (I do not like my bacon too crispy so I did not fry for too long).

-Grease a cupcake tray properly, this is a necessary step because these cupcakes tend to stick a little.

-Place one piece of ham into the bottom of the cupcake tray, add boiled potatoes and cooked bacon bits.

-Crack one egg into each cup (to prevent shells from breaking into eggs I break into a separate bowl and poured into cupcake tray). You can also scramble eggs before pouring into cups.

-Season with salt and pepper as desired and place in a pre-heated oven at 190 degrees for 14 to 18 minutes. If you prefer your egg whites a little runny serve at this point, I like mine cooked through so I baked for 20 minutes after baking I covered my cupcakes with foil paper and left for five minutes before serving.

I served these delicious cupcakes with a couple of grilled sausages and chicken dippers.

NO-BAKE OREO CHEESECAKE CUPCAKE

I have never been a big fan of baking, but I love cheesecake which is what brought about this idea. This recipe is great tasting and with no hassle of oven temperatures and baking times. I have made this recipe as individual cupcakes but it could easily be tweaked to make a large 9 inch cheesecake. So here it is, hope you try and enjoy as much as I do.

Ingredients

Filling

• 380g Cream cheese 
• 1/2 packet Oreo cookies 
• 1/2 cup Castor sugar
• 200g Melted White chocolate
• 1 tbsp Vanilla essence
• 3tbsp Gelatine powder
• 1/4cup Boiling water
• 1cup cream

Base

• 1 1/2 packet Oreo cookies
• 80g Melted butter

How to prepare

-Place 1 1/2 packet of Oreo cookies in a food processor and blend until its fine crumbs or if no food processor is available, place cookies in a ziplock and finely crush. Mix with melted butter.

-Divide cookie mixture among 12 lined cupcake tray adding 1 heaped tablespoon to each and press into an even layer. Place in the refrigerator while preparing the filling.

-In a small bowl pour gelatin and add boiling water and leave without stirring.

-Add cream cheese and castor sugar to a bowl, whip until  sugar is completely incorporated and mixture is smooth. Add cream, melted white chocolate and vanilla essence and mix together.

-Stir gelatin mixture to dissolve and add to cream cheese. Mix just till combined but be careful not to over mix.

- Break apart the Oreo cookies into little chunks, add to cream cheese mixture and fold in to mixture gently.

-Bring the cupcake tray out of the refrigerator  and divide cream cheese mixture into the individual cupcakes (in the end I decided to remove the  cupcake liners and just make the cheesecake without them but you can leave them if you want).

-Place cupcake tray in the freezer for 5 hours or preferably over night to chill and solidify.

-To serve, remove out of freezer and let it sit at room temperature for 5 mins, so it can easily be removed from the cupcake tray. If using liners cheesecake should easily pop out of cupcake tray but if not using liners run a knife along the sides of the cheesecake to loosen and carefully remove and serve.

                       

This is such an extremely rich and indulgent recipe and great dessert for a dinner party. It can be stored in an air tight container in the refrigerator.