Easy McGriddle Recipe – McDonald’s Copycat (2024)

Posted: Dec 19, 2021 · Updated: Jun 1, 2023 · By Diane H

Learn how to make a McGriddle with a special secret that makes it the best McDonald’s copycat recipe you’ll find! These McGriddles are easy to make and DELICIOUS!

I have tried to make homemade McGriddle sandwiches all my life but could never quite replicate the yumminess of the ones you can get from fast food places until now.

McDonald’s McGriddle recipe is one of my family’s favorites whether it be a sausage McGriddle or Bacon McGriddle. The jury is still out on which is best 🙂

But seriously y’all! I used all the same ingredients (or so I thought) but something always seemed different in the flavors. Little did I know, they were holding back on an ingredient that makes all the difference in the world!

Not to worry anymore because we have found out the secret of the McDonald’s McGriddle recipe and we are busting at the seems to share it with you!

It’s so simple you won’t believe it! Just one little thing can take your McGriddle recipe from so-so to over-the-top delicious!

While we are talking simple breakfast sandwiches, don’t forget about our easy 10-minute Sausage Breakfast Sandwich! It’s perfect for busy moms to prepare and great to fuel your family up for the day!

If you want to try to make some other McDonald’s copycat recipes, try these:

• Copycat McDonald’s Big Mac Recipe
• Copycat McDonald’s Apple Pie recipe
• Big Mac Salad Recipe

Now, I just can’t stand it any longer! I just have to share this McDonald’s Copycat secret with you!

The secret that makes a McGriddle taste like, well, a McGriddle – is to inject that maple syrup right INTO the pancake!

You can do this by using a food syringe (or flavor injector) and just squeezing that syrup in.

Keep reading to the recipe below to get the details on how to put this sandwich together and get that yummy maple taste infused throughout.

One other note is that we used sausage patties for our recipe, but you can make them with bacon instead. Just use one or two bacon strips in place of the sausage.

Easy McGriddle Recipe – McDonald’s Copycat

Yield: 4 sandwiches

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Total time: 45 minutes

Ingredients needed:

(See full ingredient amounts in recipe card below.)

Pancake mix
Syrup
Sausage patties
Eggs
American cheese
Salt and pepper

How to make a McGriddle at home:

1. Combine pancake mix with 1 cup of water until mixed completely. Place mason jar lid ring in skillet, bottom side down (open side of ring down), spray with oil and set heat to medium.

2. Once medium heat is achieved, pour pancake batter in ring to halfway. Once bubbles start to form in ring (60 seconds), remove the ring using tongs. Flip pancake to cook on other side (60 seconds. Remove pancake. Repeat step 7 times or cook as many pancakes as you have room for.

3. Using a kitchen syringe, medical syringe or flavor injector, inject syrup into pancakes once cooled. This step will mimic the flavor of a McGriddle pancake with our burning the syrup while cooking the pancake.

4. Cook the sausage patties on medium heat for 3 minutes on each side. Remove and top with cheese slices.

5. Scramble eggs one eggs with a pinch of pepper. Cook on medium heat in skillet. Pour egg into skillet allowing it to fill the whole skillet. After 30 seconds, fold egg twice into itself. Then fold in half to fit sandwich.

6. Assemble egg, sausage and cheese between two McGriddle pancakes and serve.

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