Cheesy bacon and egg breakfast cups

What Is Farmhouse Breakfast Week? Farmhouse Breakfast Week is an annual celebration championing the importance of breakfast which aims to get the nation to Shake Up Their Wake Up! 47% of people regularly skip breakfast during the week so their aim is to encourage people to enjoy a healthy breakfast more regularly. As it happens it is one of my favourite meals of the day, and whether it be a boiled egg, a bowl of porridge or a round of toast with homemade jam, I am always up to cook up a storm for breakfast as long as someone is feeding me with mugs of tea or coffee as I grill the bacon and fry the eggs!

A full English breakfast is all well and good. However, there are times when pancakes, omelettes, smoked fish with eggs, stuff on toast, stuff on muffins, quick breads, muffins, breakfast crumbles and even homemade croissants beckon. There are such a lot of amazing recipes that can be made and enjoyed for breakfast, and its later-in-the-day cousin, brunch!

My recipe for today, by way of celebrating Farmhouse Breakfast Week, is amazingly easy to make and is delectable to eat – it is basically a little bacon cup, shaped in a muffin tin, filled with a cheese, chive and egg mixture that is baked until the bacon is crisp and the filling has puffed up and is golden brown, like a soufflé. These little Cheesy bacon and egg breakfast cups can be assembled before breakfast is served ready to be popped in the oven once everyone is seated. Plus they are gluten-free too.

I used what is called Canadian bacon in this recipe, round lean back bacon rounds, and most major (large) supermarkets sell it, but if you cannot source it, you can use ham or streaky bacon instead.