Egg Cups | The Modern Proper (2024)

January 15, 2024

These baked breakfast egg cups are easy to make, full of iron and protein, and ensure that even the busiest day gets off on the right foot.

Baked Egg Cups Means That Breakfast Is Covered

It’s easy to eat the same thing for breakfast day in and day out. But what if you could replace some of the highly-processed, sugar-laden store bought breakfast food with an easy (and healthier!) homemade option? We think that this breakfast egg muffin recipe checks all of the boxes! We’ve taken a basic formula for egg muffin cups and boosted them up with spinach (Iron! Folate! Vitamin k!) to make a grab-and-go, low-carb, keto-approved breakfast egg muffin recipe to feel great about feeding to your family and yourself, too!

A Guideline For Breakfast Egg Muffins Ingredients

Not gonna lie, eggs whisked with milk, and poured into spinach-filled muffin tins can be a little on the bland side. So! We’ve spruced our breakfast egg muffin recipe up with a few of our favorite ultra-savory flavors—crumbly, salty feta cheese and umami-rich sun-dried tomatoes. The best part is, these egg muffin cups are highly customizable. Start with our formula for making egg muffin cups with spinach, and add whatever mix-ins you think make them taste great! Want bacon, ham, or sausage? Go for it. Need more veggies? Do it! This is definitely a place where you can let your creative juices flow. Our Spinach Feta Wrap is another great place to look for breakfast inspiration.

How To Make Healthy Breakfast Egg Muffins with Spinach

Like so many of our most trusty recipes, this egg muffin recipe can be thought of as more of a guideline or formula than a strict, follow to the letter recipe. Here’s how to make egg muffins:

• Whisk the eggs and milk together. Whole milk, 2%, even half-and-half would work here—you just want a little liquid to help the eggs pour easily into the muffin tin.

• Prep your fillings! Chop the spinach, sun-dried tomatoes and crumble the feta cheese. It’s best to chop things super-finely, because a muffin tin cup is actually quite small, and the smaller your egg muffin filling is, the easier it’ll be to load into the egg muffin cups.

• Fill! Grease the muffin pan with butter or a quick spritz of cooking spray, then evenly sprinkle your chopped fillings among the muffin tin cups, and then pour in the egg and milk mixture—a ladle or liquid measuring cup is really helpful for this step, which can get messy.

• Bake! Watch them closely, because they bake quickly and over-baked egg muffins are no fun. Once they’re baked and cooled, the feta-spinach breakfast egg muffins will keep for at least five days.

Make It A Meal With A Full Brunch Menu

These feta spinach breakfast egg cups with sun-dried tomatoes are a great on-the-go breakfast. But they’re also a great part of a larger breakfast or brunch menu. Potatoes are generally an important part of our breakfast menu, so we’d definitely make Crispy Smashed Potatoes or Potato Rösti with Eggs and Asparagus. For a little breakfast sweet treat, there’s Mixed Berry Bruschetta With Whipped Yogurt Spread, Coconut French Toast with Apples and Pecans, Cardamom Rolls with Almond Glaze and Belgian Waffles.

Can You Freeze Egg Muffins?

Yes! And since it’s so easy to double this recipe, you might as well do that and plan to freeze half of what you make—that way you’ve got breakfast handled for two weeks instead of one! Here’s how to freeze our easy breakfast egg muffins:

1. Let them cool to room temperature.

2. Space the cooled spinach and feta egg muffins on a lined baking sheet, and pop them in the freezer until they’re frozen through.

3. Transfer to a zipper-top bag, seal and store in the freezer until you’re ready to eat them!

4. To re-heat: just pop a frozen egg muffin in the microwave and zap for 30 seconds to a minute until it’s warmed through.

Tools You’ll Need:

• A muffin tin

• A whisk

• Mixing bowl

• Liquid measuring cup

Make Breakfast The Most Important Meal Of The Day

Not every day can begin with a leisurely brunch at home, but it can start with a home-cooked breakfast. Truly! Here are a few more easy, quick breakfast recipes:

• One pot wonders like Sweet Potato Carnitas Hash, Corned Beef Hash, or Smoky Bacon Cheddar Breakfast Hash

• or Sausage Breakfast Casserole for an easy bake

• Everyone, yes everyone, loves Baked French Toast

• Get out the griddle for Almond Poppyseed Pancakes with Cherry Syrup

Spinach Egg Muffins Equals Breakfast for Days!

We hope this easy breakfast egg muffin recipe helps to make your morning get-out-the-door routine a little easier, and a little healthier too! Snap a photo of your finished spinach egg muffins and maybe even a video of the beautiful people you feed it to. Tag us on Instagram using @themodernproper and #themodernproper. Happy eating!