High Protein Snack Starbucks Egg Bites Dupe

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These high protein egg bites are a homemade dupe of the very popular Starbucks egg bites. They're easy to make in a blender or food processor and then gently baked so they are tender and never rubbery. Each one packs around 12g of protein and around 165 calories each are are perfect for breakfast on the go, meal prepping or as an easy savoury snack. They're flexible, freezer friendly and reheat easily too. Upp your high protein snack game with these egg bites!

About This High Protein Snack Starbucks Egg Bite Dupe

If you're looking for a tasty, very easy high protein snack then look no further! These are a dupe of the Starbucks Egg Bites that are a hugely popular high protein low carb gluten free snack. Unfortunately these are no longer available in Australia. But don't worry, they're easy to make-all you need is to put all ingredients in a blender and whizz them together but each muffin packs an enormous 12 grams of protein with around 165 calories per muffin. Compare this to the Starbucks egg bites that have 310 calories and 19g of protein for two!

And the secret to getting these egg bites so high in high protein is: cottage cheese (and eggs)! Anyone that is eating high protein food knows that these two ingredients are the way to upping protein levels in food easily. If you're not a fan of the texture of cottage cheese don't worry, we blend it until it is smooth! It seriously tastes like a quiche but without any cream at all.

The Starbucks version uses Gruyere and Monterey Jack cheeses with bacon but these are very versatile so don't get caught up in buying a specific cheese. I tried this with leftover cheddar as well as grated tasty cheese and it was delicious.

The trick to the egg bites is to sous vide the egg bites or cook them gently in a water bath so that they aren't rubbery in texture.

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Ingredients For High Protein Snack Starbucks Egg Bite Dupe

Butter - Use melted butter but I let it set a little so that it sticks to the tin well. You can also use liners.

Bacon or ham - Bacon if you want to make them like the Starbucks egg bites and ham if you want to lower the calories and fat in these (and use up Christmas ham!).

Cottage cheese - Use regular cottage cheese, full fat.

Eggs - Use large eggs (700g eggs)

Cheese - Starbucks uses Monterey jack and gruyere but use any firm strong cheese like cheddar, havarti, Comte, emmenthal, gouda or tasty cheese!

Cornflour - we are using fine cornstarch or cornflour. Can also sub with rice or potato flour.

Vinegar - we use regular white vinegar but any sort of vinegar works here

Hot sauce - use your favourite hot sauce. It adds a little pep but these aren't spicy by any means.

Red Onion - These aren't part of the original Starbucks egg bites but I think it adds so much to these egg bites.

Tips For Making High Protein Snack Starbucks Egg Bite Dupes

1 - Make sure to blend the mixture until very smooth. This removes any sort of lumpiness from the cottage cheese - make sure to pulverise any tiny little lumps.

2 - If you have a new muffin tins with good non stick release you can brush the cavities with butter. I find it is easiest when you let the butter melt and then firm up slightly so that it sticks better to the non stick tin. Brush upwards when brushing butter on the sides.

3 - You can also bake these in muffin papers just so they don't stick to the metal tin. These can also be baked in a silicon muffin tin or a mini silicone muffin tin too although they may take a bit longer to bake as silicon doesn't conduct heat as well.

4 - I find it easiest to run a kettle of water and then pour it into the water bath once it is on the oven rack. Transporting a tray of hot water to the oven can be a bit perilous. When they're ready, just remove the muffin tin and leave the water to cool in the water bath in the oven so that you don't get splashed with hot water.

5 - These egg bite muffins are best served warm or hot. Once cold they will become quite firm so they're good for lunchboxes provided you can heat them once you want to eat them.

6 - Variations: you can make spinach and cheese muffins or make these vegetarian with sauteed mushrooms with cheese or roast pumpkin or sweet potato with cheese. Smoked chicken, cheese and spinach is also really delicious in these if you don't eat bacon or ham!

7 - These egg bites freeze well. Once completely cool, wrap them individually and store in the freezer for 2-3 months. Reheat in the oven, air fryer or microwave from thawed or frozen. For oven: bake at 140C/280F fan forced or 160C/320F conventional for 15-18 mins from frozen or 10 minutes thawed. Microwave for 50-60 seconds.

Other high protein snacks to try next are these high protein peanut butter balls or this low carb high protein bread.

High Protein Snack Starbucks Egg Bite Dupe Recipe

An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott

Recipe Overview

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Makes: 12 egg bites

Ingredients Needed

• 1 tablespoon melted butter
• 140g/5ozs streaky bacon rashers
• 260g/9ozs cottage cheese
• 6 eggs
• 210g/7.4ozs grated cheese (blend of Monterey jack, gruyere, cheddar and tasty cheese)
• 2 tablespoons/18g/1oz cornflour
• 1.5 teaspoons hot sauce
• 3/4 teaspoon white wine vinegar
• 70g/2.5ozs finely diced red onion

Step-By-Step Instructions

Step 1 PREPARE - Preheat oven to 150C/300F fan forced or 170C/338F conventional and brush the butter on the base and sides of 12 capacity muffin tray (or use liners). Brush the butter upwards on the sides. Put a kettle-ful of water onto boil. Sit the muffin tray in a larger tray with higher sides than the muffin tray for a water bath. Then place another tray of water on the bottom of the oven (two water trays = lots of steam!).

Step 2 BACON - If using bacon, place in a frying pan on medium heat and fry until crispy. Chop up roughly.

Step 3 BLEND - Add the cottage cheese, eggs, grated cheese, cornflour, hot sauce and vinegar into a food processor or Thermomix. Blend for 1 minute or until completely smooth and there are no lumps at all. Thermomix: 60 seconds, speed #8.

Step 4 POUR - Stir in the chopped onion and place into a jug. Divide the mixture evenly among the liners. Add bacon to each one making sure to push some of the bacon down into the egg mixture.

Step 5 BAKE - Place the muffin tray within the other tray. Slide this onto the oven rack and then carefully pour the hot water around the muffin tin so that it forms a water bath reaching at least halfway up the sides. Bake for 23-25 minutes or until the centre is set. Serve warm.

Personal Note

I used both bacon and ham for this and they really both worked well. Ham is lower in fat and had the lovely Christmas spices and honey added to it while bacon was tasty and crispy. Christmas seems like a long time ago and at the end of it, we really had three Christmases. We had Friendsmas in early December and then on Christmas Eve we had Mr NQN's family over for lunch where we served Christmas ham. Luckily ham doesn't need to be served hot because while the Elliotts are lovely people, they're kind of wild and when you ask them to come over at 1pm they all arrive around 2pm. As a type A individual this is challenging for me, but I try to roll with it because I know this will happen.

Mr NQN was in his office at the front of the house and he saw his brother Manu driving past with his hazard lights on (I think he was trying to find a park so that was his way of telling people to go around him). He usually comes with a range of fruit but this year he showed up with 2 bottles of Gatorade and 2 big bags of Kettle chips. "This is all I could get at the petrol station!" he said laughing.

We had to laugh at the Christmas Gatorade and I asked him if he was starting a new tradition of Christmas Gatorade. I don't think anyone was interested in drinking the Gatorade and since there was so much food, only one packet of chips was open. "I might just take these for tomorrow at the beach!" said Manu scooping up the Gatorades and the chips at the end of lunch. I tell you they're kinda wild!

So tell me Dear Reader, do you still have any Christmas leftovers? Do you look for high protein recipes?