Recipe: Appetizing Cheese and olive muffins

Cheese and olive muffins. Cheese Muffins - a great savoury muffin recipe! So basically, these muffins are every cheese-lovin'-Carb-Monsters' dream come true. Having said that though, it's a sensational base for all sorts of add ins.

I made these for our open house. I used green olives instead of black and skipped the salt. Thank you for a terrific recipe! You can prepare Cheese and olive muffins using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you Prepare that.

Ingredients of Cheese and olive muffins

1. You need 150 g of Plain flour.
2. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
3. It's 75 g of grated cheese.
4. You need 1 of large egg.
5. Prepare 10 of chopped olives.
6. It's 100 ml of milk.
7. It's 50 g of butter or oil.
8. Prepare of Chopped fresh basil.
9. It's of Salt & pepper.
10. Prepare Tbsp of tomato purée.

Update: I made these a second time. Lou Johnson your Independent Pampered Chef Consultant creates Goats Cheese and Olive Muffins in the Mini Muffin Pan - Enjoy! A delicious olive and cheese mixture melted on English muffins. Can be frozen ahead of time for an easy make-ahead appetizer.

Cheese and olive muffins directions

1. Heat the oven to 190 degrees. Add 6 muffin cases to the muffin tin..
2. Sieve the flour. Add the baking powder & stir well..
3. Add the grated cheese and olives. Add salt & pepper and basil. Mix..
4. Whisk the egg, add the milk and melted butter. Mix..
5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry. Mix as little as needed..
6. Add the tomato purée and mix until just swirled throughout..
7. Add to the muffin cases. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Cut the English muffins into fourths. Note: If you want to freeze these, now is the time! You can actually spread this olive cheese spread on the bread or muffins, and then freeze on a cookie sheet. Once frozen, store in foil and a Ziploc freezer bag. I used a dense multi-grain toast in place of the English muffins.