On the weekends, my children eat cereal for breakfast. They eat and eat and eat, and even though they mostly eat “healthy” GF cereals, sometimes I find myself adding up how much each bowl of cereal is costing us—plus how little true nutrition they’re getting and how the children never seem to get full eating the stuff. It’s a fun pastime. You should try it.

But on school mornings, no cereal! I don’t want to look back on their school careers and feel guilty that if I had only provided some sort of homemade breakfast, they might have grown up to change the world with their kindness and smarts.

So if you’ve been following this blog for much time, you’re probably aware of my deep fondness for make-ahead breakfasts. My latest fascination is with these gluten free breakfast muffins with bacon and an actual egg baked right into the muffin. Super crispy on the outside, soft and savory inside. Love.

If you’re wishing you could tell me, Nicole, bacon is not brain food and the jury is out on whether shredded cheddar cheese is going to help your children make a brighter future for all of us? Go right ahead but I already have big plans to turn a deaf ear to your smug logic.

I’m too busy making ahead a hearty breakfast for my three otherwise very ordinary children in the hopes that it will bestow super powers upon them.

Now I will climb off my high horse for just a moment to take care of some gluten free breakfast muffin details. You really do need to make these in a larger well than those of a standard 12-cup muffin tin, or the whole egg in the center just cannot be contained in the muffin batter.

But if you don’t own a Texas muffin tin (they’re so fun because it’s amusing how large they are), just use 5- or 6-ounce oven-safe ramekins or something else similar. Dig through your cabinets. You must have something. Try a large popover pan!

If you really must use a standard muffin tin, in place of a whole egg in the center of the batter, beat an egg and pour half of it into the well and then cover with more batter. The result will just be slightly less exciting than finding a whole cooked egg in your breakfast muffin. Don’t like scallions? Try another chopped onion or minced garlic.