Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches
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These simple make ahead frozen Breakfast Sandwiches rival their fast food equivalent any day! They make a wholesome, delicious breakfast possible even on the busiest mornings.
P.S. If you like simple recipes like this, you will also love our Egg in a Hole recipe.
Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe
We love make ahead breakfast ideas around here. Let us make a quick case for why it’s worth spending an hour or two preparing a load of frozen breakfast sandwiches.
- Crowd-pleaser! Similar to our Breakfast Burritos, we make breakfast sandwiches for breakfast or dinner with rave reviews from the kids and adults.
- Healthy! As you might know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. With eggs, cheese, and bacon, this protein-packed meal will stick with you (or your kids) for hours.
- Grab-and-Go! Like our Savory Breakfast Muffins, they are super easy to warm up in the morning, grab, and go. Just pull out the number of sandwiches you need and follow our reheating instructions.
- Customizable! They are easy to customize with add-ins. See our ideas below.
Ingredient Notes
There are only a few basic ingredients needed for Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches.
- Whole wheat English muffins – This is a healthy option. You could also use a Whole Wheat Buttermilk Biscuits or crescent rolls. P.S. Want homemade english muffins delivered to your doorstep? Read our Wildgrain Review to learn how!
- Eggs – To make assembling the sandwiches easier, you will bake the eggs. We’ll show you how below or you can use our Baked Omelette recipe to add the veggies, meat, and cheese directly to the eggs.
- Cheese – I like cheddar but you could mix this up!
- Bacon – Uncured is best. To make life easier, read up on How to Bake Bacon in the Oven.
Note: Find our full printable recipe with ingredient amounts and directions at the bottom of this post.
Variations and Substitutions
- Use a Whole Wheat Biscuit instead of an English muffin.
- Use Colby Jack or Pepperjack cheese slices.
- Use sausage patties instead of bacon.
- Add in sautéed veggies to the eggs before baking.
How to Make Freezer-Friendly Breakfast Sandwiches
One of the best things about this recipe is it is easy to make in bulk. This means you can stock the freezer with Make Ahead Breakfasts for busy mornings.
Toast English Muffins
Lay out the English muffins on a sheet pan, insides up. Place under the broiler until toasted, just a few minutes. Watch closely so they don’t burn.
Bake the Eggs
Whisk the eggs, milk, salt, and pepper together. Pour the mixture into a glass baking dish. Bake the eggs and let cool slightly and slice into 9 equal squares.
Tip: If you want to add in some veggies, you could do this now! Similar to our Baked Omelette, you’d sauté the veggies and mix them into the eggs before baking.
Assemble Breakfast Sandwiches
To assemble the sandwiches, top each muffin bottom with one egg square, one cheese slice, and 1-2 slices of bacon that have been broken in half. Place the muffin top on and either enjoy now or wrap the sandwich tightly in foil for the freezer.
How to Freeze and Reheat Breakfast Sandwiches
Freeze For Later:
Build your sandwiches and wrap each one in foil. Place the individually-wrapped sandwiches in a gallon-sized freezer bag and freeze for up to 3 months.
Prepare From Frozen:
There are three options for thawing and warming these sandwiches.
Option 1 (preferred method): Thaw in refrigerator for 24 hours. Remove foil and wrap in a moist paper towel. Microwave in 30 second intervals, until warmed through (about 1-2 minutes).
Option 2: From frozen, remove foil and wrap frozen sandwich in a moist paper towel. Microwave for 1 minute and then in 30 second intervals, until warmed through.
Option 3: From frozen, place foil-wrapped sandwiches in 350° F oven for about 30 minutes or until warmed through.
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Recipe FAQs
Depending on how well you protect the sandwiches from air, freezer breakfast sandwiches will be good from anywhere between 3-6 months.
Nope. There isn’t enough moisture in the ingredients to compromise the texture of the English muffin.
Option 1 (preferred method): Thaw in refrigerator for 24 hours. Remove foil and wrap in a moist paper towel. Microwave in 30-second intervals, until warmed through (about 1-2 minutes).
Option 2: From frozen, remove foil and wrap frozen sandwich in a moist paper towel. Microwave for 1 minute and then in 30-second intervals, until warmed through.
Option 3: From frozen, place foil-wrapped sandwiches in 350° F oven for about 30 minutes or until warmed through.
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Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches
Make these simple freezer-friendly breakfast sandwiches ahead of time, wrap, and freeze for fast and satisfying breakfasts on the go.
Ingredients
- 9 whole wheat English muffins
- 4–5 tablespoons butter, softened (optional)
- cooking spray
- 8 large eggs
- 1/2 cup milk (your choice of milk)
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 9 slices Cheddar cheese (sub: Havarti, Colby-Jack, or Swiss cheese slices)
- 1 pound fully cooked bacon (try this no-fail method to bake bacon)
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Instructions
Make It Now:
- Toast English Muffins: Adjust the top oven rack to 6 inches below the broiler. Turn the broiler on high. Set the English muffins on a sheet pan and open them up with the insides facing up. Spread a little softened butter on the insides (optional). Toast under the broiler for 1-2 minutes, just until toasted. Keep a close eye on them.
- Bake Eggs: Turn off the broiler and preheat the oven to 400°F. Spray a 9×9 inch casserole dish with cooking spray. In a mixing bowl, whisk the eggs, milk, salt, and pepper. Pour the mixture into the casserole dish. Place the casserole dish on the middle oven rack. Bake the eggs for 20 minutes, or until set in the middle. Let cool slightly and slice into 9 equal squares.
- Assemble Sandwiches: Top each muffin bottom with one egg square, one cheese slice, and 1-2 slices of bacon that have been broken in half. Place the muffin top on and wrap the sandwich tightly in foil. (Freezing instructions begin here.)
- Warm Sandwiches: If eating immediately, warm the foil-wrapped sandwiches in a 350°F oven for about 5 minutes, or microwave uncovered (no foil!) for 30 seconds, until cheese is melted.
Freeze For Later: Follow directions through Step 3. Place the individually-wrapped sandwiches in a gallon-sized freezer bag and freeze.
Prepare From Frozen: There are three options for warming these sandwiches.
Option 1 (preferred method): Thaw in refrigerator for 24 hours. Remove foil and wrap in a moist paper towel. Microwave in 30 second intervals, until warmed through (about 1-2 minutes).
Option 2: From frozen, remove foil and wrap frozen sandwich in a moist paper towel. Microwave for 1 minute and then in 30 second intervals, until warmed through.
Option 3: From frozen, place foil-wrapped sandwiches in 350° F oven for about 30 minutes or until warmed through.
Notes/Tips
Variations:
- Use a Whole Wheat Biscuit instead of an English muffin. P.S. Want homemade english muffins delivered to your doorstep? Read our Wildgrain Review to learn how!
- Use Colby Jack or Pepper Jack cheese slices.
- Use sausage patties or Canadian bacon slices instead of bacon.
- Add in sautéed veggies to the eggs before baking.
These were absolutely delicious! I made them with turkey sausage patties and plant based sausage patties. Both were excellent
Hi Linda. So glad you enjoyed these! Thanks for taking the time to leave a review.
Made these for my daughter and her family when they welcomed a new baby. Everyone loved them!
What a great way to help out mom! So glad they were loved by all. Thank you for leaving a review Stacy.
Good morning my wonderful and loving Thriving home family.. As many of you know , our beautiful 14 year old daughter who has special needs and is just about to graduate 8th grade life skills in may and will start high school in the fall here in kingwood, tx.. yesterday morning i wanted to try something different for breakfast before her bus came and decided to heat up one the frozen turkey sausage and egg sandwiches from Walmart and she liked it but their English muffin was a little tough. Any ways i found your delicious breakfast sandwich recipe and was wondering if i could replace the cooked bacon with breakfast sausage even though she likes bacon just may not like it all of the time even though my husband and I like either one..
God bless you all..
Hi Lydia! I’m sorry we didn’t respond to this question yesterday. Yes! You can sub different meat on the Breakfast Sandwiches for sure! If you want it to still be a quick breakfast, the sausage patties would need to be fully cooked before frozen and assembled. And they they would need to be thawed longer than bacon before reheating. But I am confident you can find a patty that your daughter likes and a way to prepare it that makes it a grab-and-go breakfast for you! Blessings to you and your family Lydia!
Just made these for a new mama friend (and doubled for us just because, duh!) and they were easy and fun to make! I will note the yield says 6 but ingredients list 9 muffins and the 9×9 pan is easily cut into 9 pieces so I think that might e off. I ended up 1.5x-ing the recipe to use the 12 muffins in the 2 packages I got and will just save the extra eggs for toddler breakfasts 💪
Hi Jen. I’m not seeing where it says the yield is 6. Were you looking at a printed recipe perhaps? We appreciate your feedback.
Hey Carla, I saw Jen’s comment and updated the recipe. She was right! Thanks for letting us know, Jen!!
My family is excited to eat breakfast when I make these sandwiches. Thanks for a great recipe!
So great to hear that, Kim. Thanks for the review!
Do you let everything cool before assesmbling? I would imagine it could get soggy with the moisture that is trapped in the tin foil prior to it being frozen.
Yes, it’s a good idea to let it cool first. That’s a good rule of thumb with all freezer meals, actually.
The recipe sounds and looks so yummy and delicious ..
Could we use egg whites for the scrambled eggs ?
With all of your recipes that I’ve found can definately help my family eat better especially with a soon to be 8 year old princess on the Autsim scale who is not picky all of time ,just when we want her to eat..
Bless you both..
I think egg whites would work perfectly fine! I’m so glad to hear our recipes are helpful, especially with a little girl who needs a little extra love and attention. Let us know if you have questions!