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 for watching.

Please share with your friends. Please thumbs up, favorite, all that stuff, and I will see

you guys next time! Bye Bye!