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Breakfast In A Blanket Recipe (a.k.a. Ham Cups)

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September 29 by Alex 6 Comments

Make sure to check our full list of recipes, ideas and tips on how to Build Better Breakfasts for Less!

We are heading into October quickly and we have a new theme next month to help you an your family save and be financially wise and share things that our family is doing personally.

Well, we have a few more breakfast posts to share before this month is over, including the featured picture this month – Breakfast In A Blanket! This is more commonly known as ham cups, but the name makes it even more fun to eat!

This is another one of our recipes that you can do several different ways to make it unique each time, a principle we have shared in many of our breakfast posts! With that, we will share the basics and then you can change-it up to fit whatever you have on hand!

The other nice thing about this breakfast is that it is low carb. It is an easy option to make a do that!

Each time I make it, it is also different, which makes it fun as well!

Here’s the ingredients that you will need/can use:

  • Ham Slices
  • Eggs
  • Additional Meat such as sausage crumbles, bacon pieces, etc. Just like we have shared in our other breakfast posts,  we almost always use the Jimmy Dean Natural sausage.  Each roll of these from Sam’s Club/Costco costs around $6.93 and I cook it all in advance and freeze and have 7 breakfasts worth of sausage.  The other meat I use is the real bacon we mention HERE.
  • Veggies – we use our frozen onions and peppers quite frequently, but other good veggies are spinach, mushrooms, Tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, etc.
  • Cheese – classic cheddar or mozzarella, but honestly any cheese will work (even cream cheese!). One of our favorites is actually feta!

This list above probably looks familiar from our How to Build Breakfast Casseroles post HERE. But that is the beauty of our breakfasts, the ingredients are interchangeable to meet our family needs/desires for breakfast that day!

Once you have narrowed your ingredients down with the foods you have on hand, then you can quickly put this together! Again, having the pre-cooked sausage and bacon and the onions and peppers already diced makes putting these together super easy!

How to make Breakfast in a Blanket

First, lay out your ham slices in a greased muffin cups and make as many as you would like.  We usually make 6-8 depending on the morning.  You want to layer the ham to where it covers the muffin tin completely to form it’s own cup.  It takes two slices of the ham we like to do this.

Then add about 1-2 tablespoons of diced veggies in the bottom of the cup!

Then add a couple of tablespoons of cheese (I honestly don’t measure it, but it looks like about that much ;))

Then add the egg on top.  You can just crack the egg right on top. We like to sprinkle with pepper too.

Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes or until egg on top reaches desired doneness.

We just showed you one way to make this, but there are thousands of ways and way more possible ingredients than what we just listed above. Just experiment with what you have already to put it all together!

One fun way is to way is to scramble the eggs before and even adding a soft cheese like cream cheese or even sour cream or mayo into the scrambled eggs and then pour in the cups for a different version!

You can add the sausage crumbles or bacon pieces for more meaty fun.  Try a spinach and feta cheese combo! Think of this as like a pizza and you can let everyone make their own with the ingredients you have on hand! Have fun with it and have more fun eating them 🙂

Here’s the printable version of Breakfast in a Blanket (a.k.a Ham Cups)!

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Breakfast In A Blanket Recipe (a.k.a. Ham Cups)
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Recipe type: Breakfast or Appetizer
Author: Cassie from The Thrifty Couple
This is a fun, low carb, protein filled way to eat breakfast. Keep in mind that this can be
Ingredients
  • Ham Slices
  • Eggs
  • Additional Meat such as sausage crumbles, bacon pieces, etc.
  • Diced Veggies - like onions, peppers, spinach, mushrooms, tomatoes, potatoes, zucchini, etc.
  • Cheese - classic cheddar or mozzarella, feta, cream cheese - any cheese you want!
Instructions
  1. First, lay out your ham slices in a greased muffin cups and make as many as you would like. We usually make 6-8 depending on the morning. You want to layer the ham to where it covers the muffin tin completely to form it's own cup. It takes two slices of the ham we like to do this.
  2. Then add a layer of finely diced veggies: 1-2 TBSP worth
  3. Then add a layer of shredded cheese: about 1-2 TBSP worth
  4. Then crack an egg on top
  5. Sprinkle with pepper
  6. Bake in 350 degree oven for 15 minutes, or until desired egg doneness is reached
Notes
We just showed you one way to make this, but there are thousands of ways and way more possible ingredients than what we just listed above. Just experiment with what you have already to put it all together!

One fun way is to way is to scramble the eggs before and even adding a soft cheese like cream cheese or even sour cream or mayo into the scrambled eggs and then pour in the cups for a different version!

You can add the sausage crumbles or bacon pieces for more meaty fun. Try a spinach and feta cheese combo! Think of this as like a pizza and you can let everyone make their own with the ingredients you have on hand! Have fun with it and have more fun eating them 🙂

More Recipe Ideas for Building Better Breakfasts:
Check out https://thethriftycouple.com/betterbreakfasts for more Building Better Breakfasts ideas!
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Comments

  1. Jennifer

    Hi Cassie, just a question – when you cook the egg and it looks like the picture is the yolk runny or completely cooked through so it’s hard? We have some picky eaters, so just wondering.. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Cassie

      Hi Jennifer – the ones in the picture are actually hard all the way through as our kids are picky about that. When they cook in the oven like that, they stay shiny:) You can cook them for as long as you want as other people like them runny, so it is up to you to cook how long you want to reach desired doneness. Alex and I both like them a little runny. Hopefully that helps! Thanks Jenifer!

      Reply
  2. Crystal C

    I make these but added shredded potatoes in them. I scramble the eggs as that is how we like them. I also make 2 pans at a time and freeze them, freezes well. Just 3 of us, so makes a couple of meals for my family.

    Reply
    • tina Mitchell

      Just wondering how to cook them after freezing them.

      Reply
  3. Lhsa

    I don’t recall what name we called these…. but grew up eating and continue to eat. Love them!

    Reply

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