Breakfast In A Blanket Recipe (a.k.a. Ham Cups) – The Thrifty Couple (2024)

September 29 by Alex 6 Comments

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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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