Ham and Cheese Muffins

Ham & Cheese Muffins

 

Makes 9

 

These muffins and absolutely amazing! I scoffed most of them myself, did my diet no favours what-so-ever! Also, they make a nice change to sandwiches, pasta, salad, soups etc. They don't even take long to prepare.

 

10 Minutes Preparation, 25 Minutes Cooking Time, 10 Minutes Cooling Time

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 3 slices of Wafer Thin Ham (cut into pieces)
• 2oz Grated Mature Cheese
• 2 Eggs
• 6oz Plain Flour
• 2oz Melted Butter
• 2 tbsp. Caster Sugar
• 2 tsp Baking Powder

 

 

The Not-So Nitty Gritty

 

1. Pre-heat the oven to 190 degrees or Gas Mark 5. Grease a muffin tin.
2. Sift together the flour, baking powder and caster sugar. Stir together to be doubley sure!
3. Combine the beaten eggs, milk and melted butter and whisk lightly to form a thoroughly blended mixture.
4. Make a well in the dry mixture and pour in the wet mixture. Stir together with a wooden spoon so it is just combined, no over mixing.
5. Add in the cheese and ham and stir through lightly.
6. Using a table spoon, heap the mixture into the muffin tin slots until they are each half full.
7. Bake for 25 minutes or until puffy and golden brown.
8. Leave to stand for five minutes before moving to a wire cooling rack to allow to cool for another five minutes.



Marmalade Veg Rolls

Marmalade Veg Rolls

 

 

Who doesn't love fresh chopped veggies rolled in ham, one not so guilty pleasure, and adding marmalade makes the veg all the better (and sweeter)! You can pretty much use any veg you or your baby likes, even use it to try out your little one with new foods as the marmalade makes it very pleasing to the pallet and half the battle of getting kids to eat new foods is getting used to the texture.

 

 

Ingredients

 

• 2 slices of Ham
• 1 tbsp. marmalade
• 25g chopped red pepper
• 25g chopped aubergine
• 25g chopped courgette

 

 

The Not-So Nitty Gritty

 

1. Chop & weigh the veggies.
2. Fry in a little drizzle of oil for approx. 5 minutes.
3. Add the marmalade to the frying pan and stir in well.
4. Lay the pieces of ham out flat and place lines of chopped veg down the centre of the ham and roll up. Put the left over veg over the top of the ham rolls otherwise the can look quite boring.

 

 

 

 



What Little Monster Thought

 

 

He was very cautious at first. I think that was because he isn't used to having whole slices of ham, I usually slice it thin for sandwiches or omelettes. But afterwards he got into it, but ate most of the veg first before resorting to that pink thing. Messy though, his hands were so sticky afterwards and the carpet was so bad I had to get the carpet cleaner out, he was having a throwy day on this particular day.

What would I change? I would just use pittas to case the vegetables for Tyler because the pinkness of his ham confused him.

 

 

Let me know how you all get on and what you change :) But I strongly suggest putting the marmalade in the veg. So sweet :)