Hey dudes!
I am Hilah, and today on Hilah Cooking we
are gonna make McDonald's McGriddle sandwiches.
You know the ones with like the pancakes with
the maple syrup chunk and the bacon and the
eggs and the big ole American cheese slice.
So these actually are a huge, huge pain in
the ass, and you're probably never going to
want to make them at home because you have
to dirty like 100 dishes, but stick around
I will show you how to do it, and then I have
a special surprise I will announce at the
end of the video for anyone who dares make
it on their own.
These McGriddles, truth be told, I have never
actually eaten one until I made them myself,
but I here tell that they have maple syrup
crystals in them which you can buy, but since
I have a giant jug a lug here I am gonna make
some.
So I am gonna put half a cup in this little
pot, and I have found.
I just recently figured this out.
If you put your little candy thermometer,
or your deep-fried thermometer in your pot
before you put liquid in, it's a lot easier
to make sure that you're like actually in
the liquid and not touching the bottom of
the pot or anything like that.
Oh, my God, okay.
So then we're gonna put it on like a medium-high
heat and bring it up to a boil.
We're basically making like maple hard candy.
At around 150 degrees it's going to start
doing this, so that's when we can just start
giving it an occasional stir.
If your thermometer is in your way, you can
take it out for a moment.
We're trying to get this up to about 265,
275 degrees, and it will start to look a little
bit darker, and you might to smell a little
bit of caramelized sugar as it gets close
to that point.
So if you don't have a thermometer, this will
just take like three or four minutes.
Okay, so around, what are at, 225, you can't
really see the surface of the maple syrup
because it's all bubbly, but you should be
able to feel with your spoon that it feels
slightly thicker, and also, I mean I can definitely
tell it is looking darker already.
So at this point you just want to kind of
keep a pretty close eye on it, and now the
bubbles have some subsided a little bit.
We are about 250 assuming my thermometer is
correct.
Okay, I am turning it off.
I am calling it done because I can smell maple
syrup crystallizing and caramelizing, so that's
good.
Give it a little stir, and then over here
I have got a baking sheet lined with parchment
paper.
I am just gonna pour this on there, and then
kind of spread it out with our spoon and it
will release from this parchment paper.
If you have like a Sil-pat, like a silicone
baking mat, you can use one of those two,
but I am poor.
Okay, and for the love of God do not try to
clean the spoon off with your finger please.
It will burn you.
It's like lava.
Okay, so we're gonna let this cool and harden.
Oh, gosh, I forget.
It will probably take like 15-20 minutes or
something, and start soaking this thing right
away so it doesn't turn into a crystallized
pot.
Crystallized pot though, that would be awesome.
Okay, so our maple syrup sugar has chilled
out for a little while.
See if we can just start cranking it up.
So I don't know, break it into a few pieces,
and you do want to be a little bit careful
because these little maple crystals kind of
feel like glass sometimes.
They are a little sharp.
Fold it up into a little parcel, and then
just sort of break it up some more [noise].
Okay, that's probably enough dancing.
So then we've got a bunch of little maple
crystals.
So that's done.
Now it's time to make our little maple crystal
pancakes, a la McDonald's.
Okay, for the pancakes I have just made up
a batch of my regular old buttermilk pancake
mix.
I have done a video on that before, so I will
link to that recipe.
So there you go, pancake, whatever.
I am sure that McDonald's does not make their
own pancake mix however I would like to point
out, and we're gonna turn our stove on to
about a medium-high heat, and then I've got
these little ring a dings here.
Will somebody call a professor.
Oh, my God, I am going to dork Hell.
Okay, so these are for actually making crumpets
or English muffins.
I have used them exactly once for that purpose.
Today they are going to be pancake forms.
So if you don't have these, you could just
make pancakes and they won't be perfectly
round and you can tell your kids to quit crying
and be glad that they have breakfast at all.
Or you could make smaller ones by like cutting
the top and the bottom end off of a clean
and empty tuna can, and that would be, you
know, they would be about that big around
I guess which would be fine.
Okay, so I want to get this pretty well lubed
up, and then get your hands a little dirty.
I am gonna get just a little bit of butter
and grease the inside of each of these rings
like so, and I have already got my bacon cooked
which I would recommend because I tried to
do it with everything at once, and it was
just like overwhelming and I almost like threw
the stove at banjo, just kidding, I would
never hurt him, and this is hot, and I am
gonna place my rings in here, and actually
I am going to let the rings get a little bit
pre-heated too.
So you want to make sure you have some tongs
nearby so you can remove the rings because
they do get really hot.
Now, each one of these I want to put about
a quarter cup of my pancake batter in there,
but I am going to just do about two tablespoons
at first.
Then drop in a few of my maple crystals.
Okay, and then top with another couple of
tablespoons.
So just like regular pancakes we're going
to cook these until we see just some little
bubbles start to pop up around the edges.
You can already kind of tell what's going
on.
Okay, so once there's bubbles around the edges,
and the edges start to look a little cooked,
we can lift off the ring.
Okay, there's one.
See if this one will go too.
Okay, perfecto.
Now we can flip them.
Oh, my God!
Kind of perfect guys.
Okay, and then while the pancakes finish up
cooking you can cook up your egg.
You could do scrambled eggs, fried eggs.
I am going to do a fried egg.
Time to assemble.
So I have got a piece of American cheese here
because it's the best.
So we'll plop it down like that, and then
I've got some bacon that I already cooked,
like I said.
Top that on there, and then our little egg
which I fried in a pan, but I broke the yolk
and cooked it all the way through, so it's
more like the kind of egg that you find on
an egg McMuffin.
You can do scrambled, or you could even do
like a runny egg if you want to.
That, and then we top it with our pancake,
viola!
It's a homemade, McDonald's griddle sandwich.
I call it a McLovell's.
Keep in mind I have never actually had a real
McDonald's McGriddle, but I am pretty sure
this is gonna taste very similar if not much
better.
These pancakes are hot and fluffy as [bleep].
Fluffy as [bleep] dude.
That should be their new motto.
Mmmmm.
Damn!
So you can see the little maple crystals have
melted and made little pockets of maple syrup
in there.
That's how I do it you guys, and now you can
do it at home.
So there you go.
There's how to make your own McGriddle sandwich.
I know, like I said, I know this a huge pain
and probably one person in the whole world
is ever going to do this for real, but that's
why I am issuing a challenge.
So I have done giveaways for people on Twitter
and Facebook and stuff like that.
This one is for YouTube, so I challenge you
Tubes, Tubers, mmmm, to make a response video
of making the homemade McGriddle sandwich
and post it, and the first person to post
a response video will win a super-awesome
prize, including, but not limited to a signed
copy of the book, and then some other surprise
that I am still thinking of, but I am sure
it's going to be radical, and then if there's
more than three submissions, I will also pick
my favorite, and that person will get a prize
too.
So there you go!
Have it at.
Make a response video if you like, and enter
to win a special, hand-picked surprise gift
pack from me, and this is open worldwide.
So mama's got her big purse out.
She's ready to roll.
Okay, so there you go.
If you have any questions about the recipe,
leave a comment below, and thank you so much
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and I will see you guys next time!
Bye Bye!
