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Happy Tailgating Snacks Month! To help you celebrate, today I bring you Mini Taco Cups!
These little Mini Taco Cups are perfect for any tailgating or football party spread. They’re easy to make, delicious to eat, and totally flexible in what you put on them. I love black beans and red peppers on my Mexican food.
And, of course, I love avocado! But, if you have some roasted green chiles or salsa that you want to put on them, feel free. A dollop of sour cream would be lovely on them as well.
These Mini Taco Cups would also be wonderful for an after school snack for the kiddos (or an after work snack for the husband!).
I have a great set of biscuit cutters in all sizes. I got my set from Amazon. If you don’t have a 3-inch round cutter, use the drinking end of a drinking glass or the open end of the empty bean can to cut the flatbread rounds. Once you’ve cut the rounds, the rest is super simple, layer on the yummies, and pop in the oven for a few minutes. Serve them warm and melty.
Oh, and you can pre-make these Mini Taco Cups as well. Layer them and bake them up as directed, then place them in the fridge. Once you’re ready to eat them (like maybe you’ve gone to a friend’s house or maybe you just made them well before the kids came home from school), just pop them back in the oven for a couple minutes until they’re warm and melty again.
Mini Taco Cups Recipe
Mini Taco Cups
Ingredients
- 3-4 flatbreads
- Easy Enchilada Sauce
- ¾ cup Shredded pepperjack and Cheddar cheese
- Finely chopped red pepper
- Black beans drained and rinsed
- Dried oregano
- Avocado cut into small pieces, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Spray a muffin tin with oil, and set aside.
- Place a flatbread on a cutting board, and using a 3-inch round biscuit cutter, press down firmly on the flatbread, to cut 3-4 circles out of each flatbread. Gently place each circle into a muffin cup.
- Spoon about ½ tablespoon enchilada sauce in each cup. Top sauce with about 1 tablespoon shredded cheese. Top each cup with some black beans and chopped red peppers. Sprinkle a little dried oregano on top of each cup.
- Bake in for 10-12 minutes, or until cheese is melted and lightly browned and the flatbreads have browned nicely. Carefully remove tray from oven, and allow taco cups to cool a bit, about 1 minute, in the muffin tray. Using a table knife, pop each taco cup out of the muffin tray, and serve, garnished with avocado chunks, if desired.
Notes
For Printing: Find the Easy Enchilada Sauce here: https://lifecurrentsblog.com/easy-enchilada-sauce/
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations, and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.
Janette (@culinaryginger)
I would enjoy tailgating if these were served. They look so cheesy and good.
Two Healthy Kitchens
These are just too adorable! An absolute must-have for tailgating and football parties (along with those darling mini football helmets, of course!), but really such a great, heartier snack for after school, too! Thanks for the awesome recipe! (And I hope one day you track down a Seahawks helmet …) 😀 ~Shelley
taranoland
What a delicious idea, I am doing these for our next big game day!
Mary
These look amazing! Will try them, Do you think this will help the Hawks???
christine (@foodyschmoody)
I love mini foods – these are so great. Good job, can’t wait to make a batch this weekend!
pattyanderson54
These are just adorable and so easy to make too!
Florian @ContntednessCooking
These look delicious! Love that you used black beans, delicious!
Heidy L McCallum
Great idea for our next football party, love how simple they are to make. I don’t think I can go wrong making these!
peter @feedyoursoultoo
So cute and packing a lot of flavor.
klg1982
these are just too cute! they’re making me hungry!
Culinary Flavors
I love Mexican and you are right, they are so cute and I bet these little bites are equally delicious!
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy
These are so cute. I might make these for my husband’s birthday. I am starting to look for party food ideas.
justine @ Full Belly SIsters
These are almost too adorable to eat! I said almost! Would totally chow on these little guys 🙂
mealplanmaven
“Minis” are all the rage these days and your taco cups would be great for tailgating as well as fun family Mexican themed dinners!
Serena | Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch
Can’t wait to try a few of these!
Camilla
Love these Taco cup, have never seen anything like these before and really want to try;-)
Nicole Neverman
These taco cups sound so delicious! Sounds like fun to make too 🙂 Great use of a muffin tin!
Platter Talk
We’ve been using our muffin pans for many other things besides muffins, lately. I can see these little beauties filling that role nicely! Great idea and wonderful post!
delphineefortin
They look so cute, so tiny, so yummy and so easy to make. They will be a perfect appetizer, I need to try them!!
Sarah Trivuncic, Maison Cupcake
These look such fun, I must try this!