I don’t know about you, but this quarantine has me craving allll the comfort food…or maybe it’s just that I’m bored and I love creating recipes and making things I don’t always have the time for. Regardless of its cause, my curse is your gain!

Whatever you do, don’t leave the house just for a McGriddle – it’s not worth breaking your quarantine for! I GOT YOU!

I used to LOVE McGriddle sandwiches! I also worked at McDonald’s for about 8 years of my life so I was familiar with the calories and questionable ingredients. If you work at a fast food restaurant as long as I did, chances are you familiarized yourself with the healthiest options available for your free meal on your shift. I never used to get the McGridddles because, spoiler alert, they’re not great for you.

My nostalgia got the best of me and I created for you – drumroll please – these better than takeout gluten free griddle sandwiches!! I love the idea of customizing these to your dietary needs and restrictions. Here’s what you’ll need to make my version!

Ingredients and equipment

• Skillet or electric griddle (I recommend a griddle if you have one because it allows for more cakes at once and is easy maneuver. If you don’t have one, fear not! A skillet is fine.)
• 6 rings to wide mouth mason jars – this is important to making the griddle cakes!
• Spatula/pancake flipper of your choosing

For the griddle cakes:

• 1 cup Gluten Free 1-to-1 flour WITH xanthan gum (I used Bob’s Red Mill)
• 2 tablespoons coconut sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk of choice, I used cashew mylk
• 2 tablespoons avocado oil
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
• cooking spray of choice, I used avocado oil

For the sandwiches:

• 3 large eggs
• 1 pound of bacon or 5 sausage patties, cooked
• 2.5 cheese slices

Procedure

1. Preheat skillet or griddle medium-medium high heat. Place mason jar rings on the surface.
2. In a large bowl, mix gluten free flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, and salt until well combined.
3. Add milk, avocado oil, egg, and vanilla extract mixing until combined. The mixture will be smooth.
4. Spray mason jar rings with cooking spray and add just enough batter to cover the bottom of each ring. This will create a sort of batter seal.
5. Very carefully, dribble small dots of maple syrup into the batter of each ring, trying to stay towards the inside.
6. Add enough batter to cover the syrup you drizzled into each ring. There should be a little room left for your pancake batter to expand.
7. Allow each griddle cake to sit until you see that the bubbles on top have popped. (It’s important to wait long enough so your griddles aren’t gooey inside!!
8. With a spatula, carefully flip each ring. Gently remove rings with the corner of your spatula. The rings will be VERY hot.
9. Allow griddle cakes to sit until both sides are lightly browned. (This batter should make 10 griddle cakes)
10. As each set of griddle cakes is finished, allow to cool on a cooling rack. I do not recommend stacking the cakes as they may become soggy.
11. Scramble all three remaining eggs, adding salt and pepper to taste. Place a mason jar ring on your cooking surface and spray with cooking spray before adding eggs. (Your eggs should be split eggs into 5 rings.) Allow to cook almost through before flipping and removing the ring as you did with the griddle cakes.
12. Remove eggs from heat when finished and add 1/2 slice of cheese of choice to each egg patty to melt.
13. Assemble sandwiches with 2 griddle cakes, 3 half slices of bacon or 1 sausage patty, scrambled egg patty, and cheese.

Some notes:

If you’re making this recipe during NON-quarantine times and you’d like to have it ready for before school/work lunches, I recommend simply making the griddle cakes as suggested and freezing them. You can easily pop them in the toaster and add fresh eggs, meat and cheese.

A second option to make this a quick, grab and go recipe: wrap the sandwiches in parchment or wax paper and then with foil to prevent freezer burn. You’ll be able to remove the foil and heat in the microwave for 1-1.5 minutes, flipping halfway through.

I hope you’ll try these and love them as much as we do! It’s a great little brunch treat without the icky feeling of fast food sandwiches!

Share this with a friend who loves McGriddles! Be sure to tag your recreations on instagram @bethannsbites or share to my Facebook page Bites With Beth! Drop me a comment or message if you have questions. Let me know what you think!