Pancake Breakfast Sandwiches

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

Why this recipe works

These pancake breakfast sandwiches came from an aha moment.

Do you ever have those moments – the ones where you realize that you love easy to make 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 warm 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 for some extra flavor.

Aha, right?  It’s the best breakfast experience ever. 

Ingredients you need

Ingredient notes and substitutions

• Bisquick: This is a baking mix combination of all purpose flour, fat, leavening and salt, and it is usually found in the breakfast aisle of your supermarket because it is a popular ingredient for homemade pancakes!
• Eggs: We use large eggs for this recipe, but extra large will work as well.
• Milk: Whole milk and reduced fat will both work.
• Cheese: We like Swiss cheese, but a slice of American cheese or cheddar cheese will also be great substitutions if you like those better.
• Maple Syrup: We like to have a cup of maple syrup on hand for our syrup lovers. Warm it up for 30 seconds in the microwave.

See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities and nutritional information.

Here’s how you make this recipe

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.

Onward to making them!

STEP 1: Mix Bisquick, milk and egg together in a bowl.

STEP 2: Heat a nonstick griddle or skillet to medium high. Pour batter by 1/4 cups onto griddle – you should have 8 pancakes total –  and cook until golden brown (watch for little bubbles to form on the top of the pancake – that’s how you know it is time to flip them.

STEP 3: Cook for another minute or two until the other side is golden. If you aren’t able to cook all the pancakes at once, keep the first pancakes warm in a 200 degree oven until all the pancakes are cooked.

STEP 4: Place a couple of slices of ham and cheese on the top of a warm pancake, and top with another warm pancake. Repeat with remaining pancakes until you have 4 sandwiches.

Cut the sandwiches in halves or quarters if you like, and serve drizzled with warm syrup and jam on the side.

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 last of all, the jam.  A dollop of jam on the plate to dunk your pancake sandwich in is optional but AMAZING, 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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Equipment we used for this recipe

These are some of my favorite kitchen tools! These are Amazon affiliate links, which means I get a little something if you buy through my links at no extra cost to you. (Which helps pay for all that bacon I keep buying! 😄) And I only share things I use and love. I’m so grateful for your support!

• Measuring Cup: We love these angled cups that show the measurements on both the inside and outside of the cup.
• Measuring Spoons: These handy magnetic spoons are not on a ring, so you can just pick the one you need.
• Pyrex Mixing Bowls: These classic sturdy bowls come in all different sizes and are great for everything from mixing ingredients to being casual serving bowls.
• Cutting Board: These sturdy, dishwasher-safe cutting boards come in all different sizes.
• Griddle: Perfect for making everything from these pancake sandwiches to these cinnamon oat pancakes!
• Fish Spatula: It’s not just for fish (although we love it for Julia Child’s Filet of Sole)…it’s thin enough to scoot under anything you want to flip! Including pancakes!
• Large Skillet: We have a few of these in our cupboard but this is one of our faves.

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

• Author: Kate Morgan Jackson
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 15 minutes
• Total Time: 30 minutes
• Yield: 4 sandwiches
• Category: Breakfast
• Method: Stovetop
• Cuisine: American

Ingredients

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• 2 cups Bisquick baking mix
• 1 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 pound thinly sliced ham
• 1/4 pound thinly sliced Swiss cheese
• Maple syrup, warmed
• Your choice of jam (optional)

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Instructions

1. Mix Bisquick, milk and egg together.
2. Heat a nonstick griddle or skillet to medium high. Pour batter by 1/4 cups onto griddle – you should have 8 pancakes total –  and cook until golden brown (watch for little bubbles to form on the top of the pancake – that’s how you know it is time to flip them). Cook for another minute or two until the other side is golden. If you aren’t able to cook all the pancakes at once, keep the first pancakes warm in a 200 degree oven until all the pancakes are cooked.
3. Place a couple of slices of ham and cheese on the top of a warm pancake, and top with another warm pancake. Repeat with remaining pancakes until you have 4 sandwiches.
4. Cut the sandwiches in halves or quarters if you like, and serve drizzled with warm syrup and jam on the side.

Notes

• Bisquick: This is a baking mix combination of all purpose flour, fat, leavening and salt, and it is usually found in the breakfast aisle of your supermarket because it is a popular ingredient for homemade pancakes!
• Eggs: We use large eggs for this recipe, but extra large will work as well.
• Milk: Whole milk and reduced fat will both work.
• Cheese: We like Swiss cheese, but a slice of American cheese or cheddar cheese will also be great substitutions if you like those better.
• Maple Syrup: We like to have a cup of maple syrup on hand for our syrup lovers. Warm it up for 30 seconds in the microwave.