Monday, May 20, 2013

Smoked Bacon with Blue Cheese Muffins


Blue Cheese.... you either love it or you hate it.. me? I LOVE IT... 

Blue cheese is made by adding cultures of the mold Penicillium into the cheese so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue mold. This cheese characteristic flavor is that of sharp and salty. The pungent distinct smell of this cheese is cause by the bacterium brevibacterium linens and this same bacterium also responsible for foot and body odors... yuckz... But overcome the smell and the melted blue cheese tasty of awfully good especially on meats like steak and it can also make a good dressing for salads.


So when I came across this recipes for a blue cheese muffin with bacon.. all of which I really love alot, I tell myself that I gonna try this one day and before you know it, I was shopping for blue cheese and bacon. Furthermore muffins are so easy to make it only take me less then 10 minutes of active time and the remaining is just waiting for the muffins to be ready.




Recipes (Makes 6 regular sized muffins)

100g            Bacon bits / Bacon strips cuts into small cubes

Dry Ingredient 
150g            Plain Flour, sifted
1/2 Tblsp     Baking Powder
1/4 Tsp        Salt
40g              Fine Sugar
1 Tsp           Dry Basil / 5 Fresh Basil leave, chopped
40g              Blue cheese, crumpled into the flour mixture
20g              Roasted Walnut (Optional)

Wet Ingredient
90ml             Milk
2 Tblsp         Water
3  Tblsp         Oil / Bacon Fat
1/2                egg  (about 25g)


  • Preheat oven to 180 degree C, prepare 6 muffin tin either by greasing or line it with paper baking cup
  • Fry the bacon till crisp and reserve the fats to be added to the wet ingredient
  •  Sift and combine all dry ingredient and add in the fried bacon
  • Combine all the wet ingredient together
  • Pour wet ingredient into dry ingredient and mix. Do not over mix, it is fine even if flour can still be seen. Over mixing will dry the final product. 
  • Scoop batter into prepared muffin tin 
  • Bake in middle rack for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown on the top.






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