Recipe
Spice Up Your Breakfast With These Jalapeño Popper Scrambled Egg Cups
Nothing is worse than starting your day off with a bland, flavorless breakfast. These jalapeño poppers are anything but that. Each egg cup is the ultimate combo of heat and flavor. In addition, each popper has a piece of bae-con wrapped around it. What more could you ask for? Get ready to wish you could have these every day because they are fire.
Jalapeño Popper Scrambled Egg Cups
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Servings: 12
- Medium
Ingredients
- 12 strips of bacon
- 8 large eggs
- 4 oz cheddar cheese
- 3 oz cream cheese
- 4 medium jalapeño Peppers, de-seeded and chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- salt and pepper to taste
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Step 1
Prep all of your ingredients as needs. Seed and chop your jalapeños. Save 1 jalapeño that you can cut into rings as a garnish for the top. Preheat oven to 375°F.
Step 2
Par-cook bacon so it’s semi crisp but still pliable. Save bacon grease in the pan for later.
Step 3
Mix together eggs, cream cheese, chopped and seeded jalapeño peppers, leftover bacon grease, garlic powder, onion powder, and salt and pepper to taste.
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Step 4
Grease wells of muffin tin, then place a the bacon around the edges.
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Step 5
Pour egg mixture 2/3 of the way in each muffin well. Be warned, they rise.
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Step 6
Add cheddar cheese on the top of the muffin, then a jalapeño. Cook at 375°F for 20-25 minutes.
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Step 7
Remove from oven, let cool, and enjoy!
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