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Crescent roll breakfast egg cups on a plate served up on a table.
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Easy Crescent Roll Egg Cups

Easy Crescent Roll Breakfast Muffins or Egg Cups are a recipe idea for breakfast or brunch using your favorite meat, cheese and vegetable.
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 387kcal
Author: Karin and Ken

Ingredients

  • 1 can crescent rolls grands or regular
  • 6 large eggs
  • ⅓ cup milk
  • ½ pound maple breakfast sausage or bacon, chopped, cooked
  • 1 cup shredded cheese any type
  • ¼ cup onions diced, about ½ an onion
  • ¼ cup bell peppers optional, any color, diced
  • ¼ teaspoon salt to taste
  • ½ teaspoon pepper to taste
  • cooking spray
  • green onions, thinly sliced for serving, if desired

Instructions

  • Get out and measure your ingredients.
    Ingredients to make crescent roll breakfast egg cups on the table.
  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a muffin pan with 12 holes with cooking spray. Set aside.  
  • On your work surface roll out your grand or regular crescent dough. Make sure all of the seams are all gone. There should just be one large piece of dough.
    Crescent roll dough unrolled from package on the table.
  • Slice into 12 squares. Either 6 x 2 for grands and 4 x 3 for regular. 
    Dough is cut into 12 pieces.
  • Place each square into each muffin hole. 
    Individual pieces of crescent dough are placed in muffin tin.
  • Next, place some cooked sausage or bacon on top of each square inside each muffin cup.
    Sausage is added first to the egg cups.
  • Add a pinch of onions and peppers (if using).
    Onions and peppers are added to crescent roll breakfast cups on top of sausage.
  • Add some cheese on top.
    Cheese is sprinkled on top of the meat and veggies.
  • In a medium sized bowl combine eggs and milk with a whisk.
    Eggs and milk in a bowl with mixer.
  • Pour egg mixture into each muffin cup until it is ⅔ full. Sprinkle more cheese on top.
    Blended egg mixture is poured over the top of the ingredients in the crescent breakfast rolls.
  • Bake for 16-18 minutes or a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
    Egg cups are baked in the oven.
  • Serve warm!
    Close up of cooked crescent breakfast egg cup in the pan.
  • Enjoy!
    Crescent roll egg cups on a plate ready to eat.
  • Every bite!
    Two crescent roll breakfast egg cups stacked with one on top with bite missing.

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Notes

Expert Tips:
To make individual mini crescent roll breakfast casserole bites you can prepare different combinations of ingredients making them perfect for larger groups of people with varied tastes!
When you roll out the dough on your work surface make sure to pinch all the seams together well so that it looks like one piece of dough.
Serve these crescent breakfast rolls warm or room temperature, but really these are best served warm!

Nutrition

Calories: 387kcal | Carbohydrates: 18g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 230mg | Sodium: 827mg | Potassium: 222mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 642IU | Vitamin C: 9mg | Calcium: 145mg | Iron: 2mg