I found this recipe through Pinterest at www.dinnerordessert.com .
I volunteered to make breakfast for my Sunday School class, the young adults of greatness as I refer to them in my head, for this past Sunday. Then, I got home and thought to myself, "Self. What do you think you're doing? You don't know good breakfasty things." And so like any good volunteer would do, I took to the Facebook. And my Pastor told me to make a casserole. So that took me to Pinterest.
If I could just say, I adore Pinterest. And I've pinned several things. But never once have I actually made/created something from it. So I found this recipe for "Breakfast Casserole Muffins" and decided that's what I was doing. The beauty of this whole thing is it only calls for five ingredients and only takes about thirty minutes to make. So without further a-do, I present to you:
All-Breakfast "Muffins"
Yields: 2 Dozen
Ingredients
1 lb of sausage. --- I used regular but for those with braver taste-buds I'm sure hot would be awesome.
Velveeta Cheese --- I didn't use a lot of Velveeta. If you got the smaller block I'm sure you could use half.
Crescent Roll Dough --- Two Small/Regular Tubes in the frozen section
8 Eggs --- The original recipe called for 6 and I had doubled the original recipe, but only used 8 eggs total and it worked out perfectly.
1/4 Cup of Milk
** Pam/Cooking Spray - I imagine it would have been horribly messy without this lifesaver.
Preheat oven to 375.
Once you've sprayed the muffin pan you'll be using, take the crescent dough and bust the first of the two open. I found that each pre-cut triangle they're nice enough to provide can be the base for each muffin. Take your dough and press it into the bottom of each muffin... .... thing? It should be flat on the bottom, not curved or cupped or anything crazy.
Broooown your sausage. No, I'm serious. Once your sausage is browned and drained from all grease, (I didn't drain but I was careful to keep most of the grease out of the actual muffin) take a spoon (I used a table spoon) and spoon sausage into each of the already placed dough bases.
Now's the fun part. I cut slices of Velveeta and then tore those into smaller chunks, strategically placing those around the sausage. Easy enough, right? So so far we have dough, sausage and cheese.
Next - in a bowl, combine milk and eggs. Beat those together and then pour a little into each hole. (We're going with that term for now.) Don't fill it all the way to the top! They rise and it will get messy for you if you're not careful. I found that when pouring the egg/milk mixture it would find all the holes around the cheese chunks so be patient and don't over do it.
Put that tray of muffiny goodness in the oven and bake for 30-35 minutes. Mine took 30 on the nose. If they look delicious and golden brown at 25 minutes, go on and take them out.
I'm sure the more seasoned chef out there won't have this problem, but mine rose and burnt ever so slightly and stuck so I had to get crafty and use a knife to cut some of them out. If they don't come out easily, don't lose faith! They're worth it!
When you're ready to eat them, pat yourself on the back and then sit down somewhere and enjoy. It goes great with coffee or orange juice, by the way. Make sense since it's all the good things about breakfast, right?
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