After dinner this evening the kids got into their dress up box and ran around the house in their Halloween costumes. Noomi was a monkey with Buzz Light Year wings and Ajax was Captain America with an awesome shield. Ajax declared that Noomi was his side kick and they practiced serious scowling for the camera. After some heroics around the house it was bath and bed time. While Dave was getting the kids ready for bed I began prepping their favorite breakfast treat. When Noomi realized I was making sausage muffins she wanted to help and then I had to promise her that the treat would be ready for breakfast. This was the wrong phrasing to use as it took me quite a while to get her settled down in bed as she kept asking for her treat now and didn’t want to wait until the morning. As the kids love this breakfast treat so much I thought that I should share it!
Sausage Muffin Breakfast Favorites
- 2 C flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 Tbsp brown sugar
- 1/4 C apple sauce (or an oil if you find yourself without any apple sauce for some reason… I mean we’re a house of kids for crying out loud how do we not have 1/4 C of apple sauce?)
- 1 egg
- 2 C buttermilk (or regular 2% milk if you’re too lazy to make buttermilk)(if you don’t have buttermilk use 2 Tbsp vinegar or lemon juice add milk to equal 2 cups)
- 1 lb cooked breakfast sausage (when you brown the sausage make sure to break it up into little crumbs)
Mix the drying ingredients in a large bowl. I recommend going ahead and doubling the recipe. Mix the applesauce (or oil), milk, egg and brown sugar in a separate bowl. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until well combined. Add mixture to very well oiled muffin tins. Do not try to use little paper liners as the muffin will stick to the liner and be a royal pain. Just oil the pan well.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 15-20 minutes. A double batch of batter will make about 24 large muffins, and 24 small muffins.
Go ahead and freeze the extras and then heat them up for a quick breakfast. I usually serve these with a little bowl of syrup for dipping. The kids love these so much!
