Pancake Ham And Cheese Sandwiches

This easy recipe for pancake ham and cheese sandwiches is perfect for any meal, any time! Because who doesn’t love breakfast for dinner?

These pancake breakfast sandwiches came from an aha moment.  

Do you ever have those moments – the ones where you realize that you love pancakes, and you love warm ham and cheese sandwiches, and you have lived your entire life up until this very second without putting those two things that were meant to be together, together?

So imagine this with me: a warm pancake right off the griddle, topped with thin sliced deli ham and swiss cheese, topped with another warm pancake.  

While the warmth of the steamy pancake softens up the cheese, you cut the sandwich into quarters and drizzle it with a little heated Vermont maple syrup.

And since this whole thing was beginning to remind me of a Monte Cristo sandwich, which is often served with jam, I added a little raspberry jam to the plate.  

Aha, right?

Here’s how you make pancake breakfast sandwiches!

First of all, you want your ham and cheese sliced SUPER thin.  As in if you can, go to the deli counter thin.  Or get the thinnest sliced prepackaged kind you can find.

The thinner the slices, the more they will get that perfect, perfect warm and soft texture as the hot pancake does its work.

You also want to bring the ham and cheese to room temperature if you can, for exactly that reason.  These are optimal slight meltage conditions.

How do I keep pancakes warm?

As for the pancakes, as with all pancake preparation it is best to keep the first ones out of the pan warm while you cook the rest of them.  

The easiest way to do this is to set your oven at 200 degrees and pile them on an oven-proof plate as they come off the griddle.

This will also keep them from being swiped before you get to the sandwich making part.  Pancake thieves – they are everywhere.

And just for the record, I make my pancakes with Bisquick.  There are tons of pancake recipes out there if you want to be totally scratch, and sometimes I do that, and then I always come back to Bisquick.  (And by the way, the Bisquick people have never heard of me – this is unbiased, unrequited love.)

Meantime, I like to cut my pancake sandwiches into quarters and spear them with cute toothpicks before serving them, but feel free to cut them in halves or not at all – totally up to you.  

Just make sure you give them a good old drizzle with some syrup right before you serve them.  They are still pancakes, and pan cakes need syrup.

And last of all, the jam.  Our current favorite is Tiptree raspberry preserves, which is just plain heaven in a jar.  A dollop of this jam on the plate to dunk your pancake sandwich in, and you know where this is going.

Yup.  Right to the Clean Plate Club.

So…pancake sandwiches!  It’s what’s for dinner.  Or breakfast.  Lunch??

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