Cheddar Sausage Mini Muffins

We were looking for summer sausage for camping, but could not find any. We bought some pre-cooked smoked sausage instead. We used part of it, and the rest Doug suggested I use for snacks for social hour.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups self-rising flour
• 2 Tsp baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 Tbsp butter, cut in small bits
• 10 ounces sausage, cooked and crumbled
  (I diced up my pre-cooked sausage and my cheese into small pea size bits)
• 5 or 6 ounces cheddar, diced small
• 1/2 cup onion  (diced and sauted, optional)
• 1 large egg
• 1.5 cups non-fat Greek yogurt
  (or 1.5 cups water + 6 Tbsp powdered milk)
• 1.5 tablespoons dried parsley

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 425, prepare three 24 cup mini-muffin pans with cooking spray
2. Mix dry ingredients in food processor
3. Mix in butter bits (& chives if using)
4. Beat egg & yogurt together in a separate large bowl
5. Fold in cooked sausage & cheese. The batter will feel like a wet biscuit dough
6. Mix  in the dry ingredients
7. Scoop about 2 teaspoons into mini muffin pan cups I
8. Bake for about 11-12 minutes
   (for a thin pan, cook for 11 minutes, for a sturdier pan go for 12 minutes)
9. Turn out onto cooking rack (you may have to pry them out on a thin pan)

Carole's Notes:

This makes about 72 mini muffins with the above ingredients. Leave off 1 egg and reduce other amounts by 1/3 if you only want to make 48.

The recipe is adapted from http://dingodavedelightfullydaringdelicacies.blogspot.com/2010/07/cheese-bacon-mini-muffins.html