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This RECIPE is sponsored by ALDI
Brunch season is in full, official swing.
Spring brunch. Baby and bridal bathe. Birthday brunch. Mother’s Day brunch. And the queen of all of them: EASTER BRUNCH. So right now, in preparation for the principle brunch occasion, we have to speak about how lovable, scrumptious, and essential BRUNCH CUPS are.
Brunch cups, as I’m calling them, begin with slightly puff pastry tucked right into a muffin tin. Then we’re layering the puff pastry with a fast schmear of creamy Swiss-ified cheese sauce, an egg, and some diced ham. Finally, we’re baking all of it collectively into one thing lovable, scrumptious, and brunchy. A sprinkle of chives, salt, and pepper on prime would make you look kinda fancy, too.
We made a mega ALDI run earlier than this ham / egg / cheese brunch cup operation. Hello, brunch headquarters. Most notable finds have been the ham, which is spiral-sliced and hickory-smoked (yum), and the eggs. I really like ALDI eggs – pretty natural cage free giant brown eggs that don’t price your life financial savings. Thank you, ALDI.
Watch how you can make our Ham, Egg, and Cheese Brunch Cups (1 min):
Is it simply me or does ALDI have probably the most loyal cult following ever? My pals who’re obsessive about ALDI are – how do I say this – REALLY, REALLY OBSESSED with ALDI.
Are you on this mega ALDI fan membership? What do you purchase there? And why? If you’re within the Twin Cities like me… do you know they’ve a newly renovated Roseville location? Um, yeah.
Let’s discuss. And eat these drippy, buttery, thick little brunch cups.
Win-win!
Ham, Egg, and Cheese Brunch Cups
Prep Time: 10 minutes- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
Yield: 18 egg cups
Description
Puff pastry, egg, ham, and a creamy cheese sauce make these little brunch cups simple, scrumptious, and so stunning! Perfect for easy entertaining.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Countryside Creamery Sweet Cream Butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup milk
- 3/four cup shredded Swiss cheese
- 1/four teaspoon salt
- 2 sheets puff pastry
- 18 SimplyNature Organic Cage Free Brown Eggs
- 1-2 cups Appleton Farms Spiral Sliced Half Ham, diced
- 1 overwhelmed SimplyNature Organic Cage Free Brown Egg (egg wash)
- chopped recent chives, salt, and pepper for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 levels.
- Make the Cheese Sauce: Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium warmth. Add within the flour and whisk to mix. Pour within the milk, little by little, whisking after every addition. Bring to a simmer, whisking till the combination thickens. Take the combination off the warmth and stir within the cheese. Season with salt. Set apart.
- For the Brunch Cups: Use a rolling pin to roll out the puff pastry sheets till skinny. Cut the pastry sheets into 9 equal squares. Line every properly of a muffin tin with one puff pastry sq., urgent it firmly to the underside and sides. The edges ought to come simply excessive of the muffin tin. Fill every cup with a spoonful of cheese sauce. Then, crack one egg into every cup and sprinkle diced ham on the highest of every egg. Brush the uncovered parts of puff pastry with egg wash.
- Bake: Bake for 10-15 minutes till the eggs are set (see notes). Sprinkle with chives, salt, and pepper. Serve heat.
Notes
Depending in your oven, 10-15 minutes ought to yield you a runny yolk, whereas something after 15 minutes will get extra of a medium to onerous yolk. My oven runs scorching, and for me, 12 minutes wasn’t fairly sufficient to prepare dinner the whites on prime, however 17 minutes gave me a medium yolk, so ideally one thing in between could be finest in order for you cooked whites with a really runny yolk.
If you don’t like runny yolks, you may also use scrambled eggs on this recipe. I identical to the look of the yolks in tact – so fairly!
Thank you to ALDI for sponsoring this put up!
