Pancake Breakfast Sandwiches

This recipe requires a silicone mold if you want your pancakes and egg patties to be the exact same size, but otherwise is really simple. Plus, the molds I bought are dishwasher safe! Most of this is self-explanitory, but I do go into some details about cook times and proportions for our family of five.

Pancake Breakfast Sandwiches

Ingredients:

• pancake batter
• eggs
• cheese
• meat
• other desired toppings

Directions:

Pancakes: 

• We used Krusteaz pancake mix. For seven sandwiches, or fourteen individual pancakes, mix 3 cups pancake mix with 2 cups water. I had to add a little additional water until I got the perfect consistency (not too thick that it won't spread, but not too thin so it's runny). I probably added less than 1/4 cup extra water, but more like just a couple extra tablespoons or so. Wisk until smooth, but no longer. Do not overmix batter.
• Place silicone molds on preheated griddle. Spray the area inside the mold and the grilled surface with a light coating of non-stick spray and immediately pour in 1/4 cup batter. Let cook in mold for 3 minutes before removing mold and flipping pancake to cook the other side.

Egg: 

• Place silicone mold on preheated griddle. Spray the area inside the mold and the grilled surface with a light coating of non-stick spray and immediately crack one egg directly into the mold or pour in a beaten egg or serving of egg substitute. Season if desired. 
• Cook for 3 minutes before removing mold and flipping the egg over. According to the internet, once flipped and cooking the second side, soft eggs get 1 additional minute, medium eggs get 2 minutes, and hard eggs get 3 minutes. We did 3 minutes on the first side and 2 minutes on the second side and it worked great for both regular eggs and my diet egg substitute.

Assemble your sandwich with desired meats, cheeses and toppings.

Not knowing how many pancakes we were going to get, we mixed 3 cups of mix with 2 cups of water and then used 1/4 cup batter in each mold. We ended up with 14 pancakes. Next time, for our family of five, I would probably try only using 2 cups of pancake mix with 1 1/3 cups water and try to stretch it to make ten cakes (or 5 complete sandwiches).

According to my math, at approximately 1/4 cup prepared batter, each small cake is about 90-100 calories. Also, 1/2 cup mix to 1/3 cup water might be the exact amount you need to make a single breakfast sandwich... if my math is right.

I got these silicone molds off Amazon. They come in a 4 pc. set, so with two sets (or eight molds total), we can make all the pancakes and eggs we need for the entire family in just two rounds on the griddle... plus, our griddle can only hold 8 molds at a time anyway.

I am tagging this recipe as "healthy" because you can make an entire sandwich for around or under 400 calories if you are careful, making it a good diet breakfast for me.

1/4 cup batter per pancake is what I get by using my long-handled yellow "cupcake" measuring cup.