Meatloaf Cupcakes

Today I made meatloaf cupcakes. Sounds kind of strange when you think about it, and something I normally wouldn’t eat as a ‘sweet’ item. But the cupcake part is just solely for the type of pan I used. Why use a cupcake pan you may be asking, well honestly it’s more to help with portion control and to cut cooking time in half!

The process was fairly simple, mix meatloaf as if you were making a regular loaf style meatloaf. And then portion it out into the cupcake pans.

Ingredients1 teaspoon olive oil
1 cup chopped onion (I buy and use the pre-chopped)
1 teaspoon dried oregano. (I used Gourmet Garden’s Organic Oregano)
2 garlic gloves, minced (I buy pre-minced garlic so it I used 2 teaspoons)
1 ½ pounds ground beef. (I used the 90/10 extra lean meat)
1 cups of Italian bread crumbs
¼ ground black pepper
¼ sea salt
2 Large eggs and cooking spray
                                                                                                                                                                                            Additional items you could use
1 cup ketchup, divided
1 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons mustard
** I don’t typically use these unless I am cooking for a lot of people as my daughter don’t like mustard nor Worcestershire sauce.

Mashed Potatoes
4 cups peeled potato (I use red potatoes or Yukon gold)
¼ cups of 2% reduced-fat milk
3 tablespoons butter
¼ cups Philadelphia cream cheese
½ teaspoons sea salt
¼ teaspoons ground black pepper

Garnish (if preferred, but didn’t use this time around)
3 tablespoons chopped chives
4 pieces cooked bacon and chopped.

Preparation
Preheat oven 350°
Mix ingredients in large bowl, (If you choose to add the Ketchup divided add too).
Spoon the meat mixture into 12 muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Top each with 2 teaspoons ketchup. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a thermometer registers 160°. Let stand for 5 minutes.

While the meatloaf is cooking, make mashed potatoes.

Put the potatoes into a pastry bag with a wide star tip and pipe the mashed potatoes on top of the meatloaf. Sprinkle with bacon crumbs and chopped chives.
**If you don’t have a pastry bag as I don’t you can use a sandwich baggie and cut a small part of the corner of the bag off.

My Little Helper Liljana, She mixes the Meatloaf mix as
 I prepare the potatos

MeatLoaf cupcakes before cooked.

Meatloaf cupcakes cooked and toped, My daughters request was
for greenbeans on top drizzeled with katchup