These muffins with seasoned pasta and cheese sauce, with speck, are an idea for a main course to take in a cooler bag to the beach on an upcoming weekend at the sea!
Personally, I used a ready-made cheese sauce from Conad because, I confess, I didn’t feel like making the béchamel sauce, which we all find in any supermarket, but…clearly, you can add your favorite ingredients!
The important thing is to season the pasta muffins with a soft and enveloping sauce to keep the individual pieces of short pasta soft and delightful!
Before taking out the muffin tray from the oven, I added a mix of scamorza and parsley to give even more flavor to this finger food main course!
I suggest other seasonings like
1) béchamel ragù and peas;
2) gorgonzola and sautéed radicchio with some crushed walnut kernels;
3) a diced mix of vegetables sautéed in a pan for a few minutes to keep them crunchy and some pieces of stracchino or crescenza cheese and…

QUESTION….Do you know the difference between cupcakes and muffins, which are similar preparations but have small and substantial differences??