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Home » Savoury Treats » Toasted Breadcups

Toasted Breadcups

Author: VJ Published : April 2019 Modified : May 2021 / Be the first to comment!

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If you need canapes in a hurry and don’t have time to mess around making the pastry, then toasted breadcups are exactly what you are looking for. Just toast slices of buttered bread in a muffin tin and fill with your favourite ingredients for instant snacks

A single breadcup filled with creamed mushrooms on a plate.

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Table Of Contents
  1. Breadcups
  2. Ingredients for breadcups
  3. How to make breadcups
  4. Fillings
  5. Pin for later
  6. Recipe – Toasted Breadcups
  7. Toasted breadcups

Breadcups

I just love making these little breadcups. They are so easy to make and taste so good.

I like to breadcups with a variety of different fillings, to hand round as an appetizer/starter if I’m having a get-together. They make the perfect finger-food because the bread casing doesn’t crumble like pastry would when you bite into it, so there are less crumbs to sweep up afterwards 🙂 .

Breadcups filled with creamy mushrooms also make a delicious accompaniment to a roast dinner, instead of the usual yorkshire pudding.

What like about them is the fact that I’ve always got the ingredients on hand. There’s no pastry involved, all you need are a few slices of day-old bread and you can throw these together in no time.

In the picture above, I’ve used creamy mushroom and onion filling, which is cooked on the stove top and spooned into the cases.  You could also fill the breadcups with your favourite quiche filling and bake them in the oven, as in the picture below.

A plate of breadcups filled with egg and chopped sausage.

Ingredients for breadcups

**You can get the complete list of ingredients and full instructions on how to make this steak and kidney on the printable recipe card at the end of this post**

  • 12 slices bread – I’ve used white bread here, but you could use any sliced bread of your choice. I think wholewheat would work really well. The seeds would add extra crunch.
  • Sufficient butter to spread on each slice.

I’ve provided ingredients for mushroom or egg and bockwurst. Each is sufficient to fill 12 breadcups.

Mushroom filling

  • 250g (8 oz) mushrooms finely chopped
  • 1 large onion finely chopped
  • Small amount of olive oil for frying the mushroom and onion
  • Shake of salt
  • 125 ml (1/2 cup) milk
  • 125 ml (1/2 cup) cream
  • 1 teaspoon cornflour

Egg and bockwurst filling

  • 2 bockwurst cut into small cubes
  • 125 ml (1/2 cup) cream
  • 1 large egg
  • Cheese to sprinkle
  • Salt to taste

How to make breadcups

Steps for toasting breadcups
  • Use a rolling pin to flatten slices of bread. You need to flatten the bread slightly to press it together. It will hold its shape much better if you do this.
  • Cut the bread into rounds.  If you have a large enough pastry cutter you can use this, but I find a large coffee cup is the ideal size to get the bread to fit into the muffin tin. You may find you need to use a knife to cut around the cup.

Tip – blitz the bread offcuts in your food processor and store in a plastic bag in the freezer for ready-made breadcrumbs. 

  • Butter one side of the rounds and press into a muffin tray, butter side down.
  • Bake in the centre of a hot oven (200C / 400F) for 10 to 15 minutes.  The bread will dry out an become crispy and golden brown.
  • Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Spoon spoon in your filling of choice.
  • For extra crispness you could switch the oven off once the breadcups are baked, and leave them to cool in the switched off oven with the door open.

Breadcups are best eaten fresh on the day. If you allow them to stand too long they will tend to lose their crispness so don’t prepare them too far in advance.

Fillings

To make the mushroom filling:

  • Chop the mushrooms and onions finely and sweat gently, in a saucepan, in a little olive oil until the moisture from the mushrooms has evaporated and the onions are translucent. 
  • Season with salt to taste,
  • Mix the milk, cream and cornflour together and add to the mushrooms.
  • Stir over a gentle heat until thick and creamy.  The mixture should not be too runny – it should hold its shape on a spoon.
A pan of creamy mushroom sauce.
  • If the mixture becomes too thick add a little more milk. Let it cool and then spoon the mixture into the toasted breadcups.
  • If you are serving these as part of a roast dinner, fill the breadcups with the hot mushrooms and serve immediately.

To make the egg and bockwurst filling

This filling is baked in the oven in pre-made breadcups – so in effect you are baking the breadcups twice.

  • Chop the bockwurst into small dice, or slice them thinly. Keep them as small as possible.
  • Place a few bockwurst cubes into each of the pre-baked breadcups.
  • Mix the egg and cream together, season with salt and pour over the sausage in the breadcups.
  • Sprinkle with a little grated cheese, place on a baking tray and bake in the preheated oven for approximately 15 minutes until the egg mixture has set and the cheese is golden.
  • Remove from the oven and allow to cool.

Additional fillings for breadcups

For the fillings, you are limited only by your imagination – here are some ideas to get you started.

  • Mix shredded cooked chicken with finely chopped spring onion and mayonaise. Garnish with a little chopped parsley.
  • Leftover cold coronation chicken or chicken a la king
  • Chop advocado and tomato, and season with salt and pepper. Be careful with this filling – the breadcups will absorb any excess moisture from the filling and may not retain their crispness for very long.
  • Fill the breadcups with scrambled eggs and top with a piece of smoked salmon for a quick and easy breakfast.
  • Place a juicy meatball into each breadcup and top with homemade chilli tomato sauce.

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Recipe – Toasted Breadcups

A single breadcup filled with creamed mushrooms on a plate.

Toasted breadcups

If you need canapes in a hurry and don't have time to mess around making the pastry, then toasted breadcups are exactly what you are looking for. Just toast slices of buttered bread in a muffin tin and fill with your favourite ingredients for instant snacks
Recipe by: Veronica
Appetizer, Easy, Party
Any
Calories 63
Prep 10 minutes
Cook 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings: 12 pieces
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Equipment

  • Rolling Pin
  • Knife
  • 12-hole muffin tin

Ingredients

  • 12 slices bread
  • 1 Tablespoon butter or margarine

For the creamy mushroom sauce

  • 250 g (8 oz) mushrooms finely chopped
  • 1 large onion finely chopped
  • Small amount of olive oil for frying the mushroom and onion
  • Shake of salt
  • 125 ml (½ cup) milk
  • 125 ml (½ cup) cream
  • 1 teaspoon cornflour

For the egg and bockwurst filling

  • 2 bockwurst cut into small cubes
  • 125 ml (½ cup) cream
  • 1 large egg
  • Cheese to sprinkle
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

To make the breadcups

  • Preheat oven to 200 degrees C
  • Flatten slices of bread with a rolling pin and cut into large rounds.
  • Butter one side of each round lightly and press into a muffin tray
  • Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.  Then remove from the oven and allow to cool

For the mushroom and onion filling

  • Chop the mushrooms and onions finely and sweat gently in a little olive oil until the moisture from the mushrooms has evaporated and the onions are translucent.  Season with salt to taste
  • Mix the milk, cream and cornflour together and add to the mushrooms
  • Stir over a gentle heat until thick and creamy.  If the mixture becomes too thick add a little more milk.
  • Let it cool and then spoon the mixture into the toasted breadcups

For the egg and bockwurst filling

  • Chop the bockwurst into small dice.
  • Put a few bockwurst cubes into each of the breadcups
  • Mix the egg and cream together, season with salt and pour over the sausage.
  • Sprinkle with a little grated cheese and bake in the preheated oven for approximately 15 minutes until the egg mixture has set and the cheese is golden.
  • Remove from the oven and allow to cool.

Notes

If you don’t have a large enough cookie cutter, you can use a large coffee cup to cut the bread to size.
These are best eaten fresh.  They are inclined to go soggy if they stand for too long.
Calories have been calculated for the mushroom filling.

Nutrition

Calories – 63kcal | Carbohydrates – 7.3g | Protein – 1.9g | Fat – 3.2g | Saturated Fat – 1.3g | Cholesterol – 5mg | Sodium – 89mg | Potassium – 104mg | Fiber – 0.7g | Sugar – 1.9g | Calcium – 32mg | Iron – 1mg

I am not a nutritionist. The nutrition information has been calculated using an on-line calculator, and is intended for information and guidance purposes only. If the nutrition information is important to you, you should consider calculating it yourself, using your preferred tool.

Unless otherwise stated, a cup is the standard US cup containing 240 ml. In all my recipes this cup is assumed to hold 140g of flour. For help converting other ingredients between cups, grams, ounces and other measures, see my recipe conversion calculator.
All my recipes are developed and tested at sea-level. For tips on adjusting recipes for high altitudes see my post on baking at high altitudes.
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About VJ

In my previous life, I was an IT Consultant. Now that I've swapped an office for a kitchen I have a lot more time to spend on things that interest me such as trying out new recipes. Most of my cooking is based around quick and easy meals, and you'll probably find a little South African influence creeping in due to the many years I spent there.

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