I decided to try out this Bacon, Egg, & Cheese Biscuit Muffin recipe I found on Pinterest a while back. I've been meaning to try it out for a while, but seldom feel like making something this fantastical until I've had at LEAST a gallon of really strong freaking tea or coffee.. Today was a bit different, though.. I'm running on pure adrenaline and hot anger! I woke up to the sound of creaking wood and a huge crash.. when I went outside to see what was up, this is what I found:
Did I mention my husband went out of the country for work this morning and won't be back for two weeks? Yeah. Murphy's Law. Gets me EVERY time my husband is gone. Even though we only bought the house two months ago and everything is still under warranty, apparently the fence is not, since we share it with our neighbors... But.. instead of heading outside like Rosie the Riveter, I decided to bake! Factor in hungry kids and the fact that it was only 7am, probably not a good idea to break out the Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies recipe I've been eyeing.. I went through my boards and thought these biscuit muffins sounded fantastic and kid-friendly so I decided to try it out. It was actually pretty easy and came out decent!
This is what I used (the actual recipe, found here has exact measurements.. you may want to follow them instead -lol!):
1 package biscuit dough
eggs
cheddar cheese
bacon (I was too lazy to make bacon today.. it was in the freezer and required thawing.. too much work for 7am.. hence, the crumbled bacon pieces instead)
Black Forest ham
Ok. I'm going to tell you what I did, then tell you what I did wrong.. because I definitely screwed this one up (blaming it on the broken fence and lack of caffeine)!
1. Preheat oven to 400*, grease muffin tin, and beat eggs (I used 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites - Firstborn won't eat egg yolks, #2 doesn't like egg whites.. I compromise this way..)
2. I then flattened out my biscuits and put them in the muffin pan, making sure they stayed above the rim of the pan. I added some cheddar cheese (definitely too much..), spooned in some of the egg mixture, and topped half with bacon and half with ham (again.. picky mini me's... one hates ham, one hates bacon..) Not sure if this is how it's supposed to look, but this is what mine looked like!
I put them in the oven and set the time for 12 minutes... Opened the oven to check them (because my stupid oven, which I hate, has a VERY small window on the front and it's SUPER hard to see inside..) and was greeted with a wall of stinky black smoke.. When the author of the recipe wrote it, she wasn't kidding when she said not to over-fill these bad boys... the eggs spewed over the side when the biscuits started to rise, leaving me with the mess of burnt eggs in the bottom of my oven. DO NOT OVERFILL!! Trust me.. It's not pretty, and it's not fun.. Anyway... 12 minutes was not enough.. I think I had to go closer to 20, but I don't trust my bitch of an oven, so who knows if she's the one that screwed it up! From now on, I'm going to refer to my oven as "Karen"... If you're a Dane Cook fan, you'll totally understand why... If you're not, you need to YouTube that shit and find out what I'm talking about! OK - back to the food.. This is what I was staring at when I finally cleared out the kitchen and pulled these out of the oven:
Once I got them out of the pan (which, thankfully, was not too hard, thanks to over-doing it with the cooking spray beforehand!), they didn't look too bad:
And in case you're wondering what they look like inside:
Ok.. so here is what I did wrong:
1. I used Grands large flaky biscuits - there were only 8, not 10 in the package, making the biscuits larger and therefore rise much more than normal biscuits. So... either get regular packaged biscuits, or make your own!
2. DON'T OVERFILL THE STUPID THINGS!! Yeah.. Go easy on the eggs and cheese inside.. burning eggs to not make your house smell great or appetizing..
3. Cook longer than 12 minutes, unless you like your eggs a bit less "set"...
That's all for today! Time to figure out what to do about the damn fence... Hoping to make homemade Cheez-its this week, too - keep your eyes out!
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