I have a confession to make. I Love, with a capital L, Sausage Cheese McMuffins from McDonald’s.
I blame it on Leah. This love began when I was pregnant with her. I couldn’t stomach meat of any kind, but for some reason craved Sausage Cheese McMuffins like they were going out of style. It was probably a good thing McDonald’s only had a short time window for breakfast, or I’d have a perpetual spot in their drive thru.
Pregnancy came and went but my craving for the Sausage Cheese McMuffins stuck around. Seriously, isn’t it a perfect little breakfast idea? Hand held, with sausage and cheese (a breakfast combo of champions) and super tasty.
I hate giving up money to McDonald’s though, especially when I know I can make something better at home. Enter Homemade English Muffins, made simple in the bread machine. Seriously, friends… I took one bite and wanted to kick myself for not making these at home sooner. You can’t get ANYTHING close to these at the super market. If you can, I sure haven’t found them on any of my store shelves.
So, here you have it…breakfast, lunch or dinner right here, in your own kitchen, with your very own Sausage and Cheese on Homemade English Muffins. Enjoy!
All this talk of sausage makes me think of my favorite Kansas Pork Farmers and the awesome tailgate giveaway the Kansas Pork Association has going on right now! You have until September 26th, 2012 to head over to the KSPA Facebook page for a really great tailgating giveaway they have going on right now! This $800 giveaway includes (4) tickets to the KSU vs KU football game, a Weber Q 300 grill, 4 fold-able lawn chairs, a Coleman cooler, grilling utensil set, digital probe thermometer, digital pocket thermometer, marinade injector, rib rack, 6 different types of rub, 2 types of BBQ sauces, a ton of other stuff and $50 worth of pork coupons.This is one game they won’t want to miss!
Homemade English Muffins for the Bread Machine
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dry yeast I recommend Red Star Yeast
- cornmeal
Instructions
- Place ingredients except the cornmeal in your bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer.
- Choose the dough cycle setting and start.
- Once dough cycle is complete, dump out the dough onto a surface with a light coating of cornmeal. (Dough will be somewhat wet...that's good!)
- Sprinkle a small amount of cornmeal onto each side of the dough.
- Using your hands, flatten out the dough into a 1 inch thick rectangle.
- Cut into 8 to 10 rounds.
- Place rounds onto a cookie sheet, cover and let rise for 20 minutes.
- Heat a griddle to 350°F. Place dough rounds onto hot griddle and cook for 7 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
- Note: Once flipped you'll notice they've puffed up some... I used a spatula and slightly flattened them)
These are gorgeous!!
Darnit I haven’t had one of those in a long while. Yum! Homemade totally wins!
When I saw your IG picture yesterday, I was so hoping that you would post the recipe. Yea! I cannot wait to make them!
Get out of TOWN and into my face.
I know what you mean about making something better at home! Although, I haven’t made English muffins at home… I’m thinking I just might have to try that soon!
I am going to try this…and feel all homemakery and stuff.
I AM SO MAKING THIS RECIPE!!
Those English muffins look beautiful!!! And the whole sandwich looks just delightful 🙂
Sausage McMuffins are my very favorite! These look divine.
Can I ask you one favour? Please don’t ever attempt to make a McChicken sandwich, or I will gain 40 pounds in a week. I need that deliciousness to be a safe driving distance away…
Hahaha – I haven’t had a McChicken sandwich, so I think you are safe. (Although I will admit to being tempted now 😉 )
My favorite breakfast sandwich is english muffin, ham, egg and cheese. I make them at home all the time, but with store-bought english muffins. Now, I’m super inspired to make my own!
Never tasted them. But it gives the will to do it !
LOVE the idea of making these at home. Those English muffins look amazing. (And I love that you know exactly what went into them at home!)
Have you ever made these without a bread machine? I have yet to invest in one of those… just curious. Thanks!
I haven’t but I know that it should be fairly easy to do. Here’s a great (and very similar) recipe to try: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Sourdough-English-Muffins
Yours look absolutely perfect! Remind me to make these over the winter 🙂
I’ve been wanting to make my own english muffins. Thanks for the reminder!
Those looks so amazing! As soon as we have a weekend at home, I’m making these. I’ve wanted to try homemade english muffins for a long time. Any idea how long they stay fresh? And how to adapt for a non-bread machine user? I’m sure Google has an answer for that. 🙂
Hi Jimi –
So day two they were still great but this morning they had dried out quite a bit. Food.com says they freeze well so next time I’ll try that. We went through them really quickly though with the 6 of us. So good!
I was tooling around and found this TOH link to a recipe that looks very similar, but without the bread machine! http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Sourdough-English-Muffins Hope that helps!
Thanks for the Kansas Pork comment. Sorry for those hooked om “veggie Sausage” How could it ever be as tasty. You make us almost ready to invest in another bread machine because of the recipes you have posted.
🙂 You don’t have to have a bread machine to make these. Here’s a taste of home recipe Ginger can try. If she does, let me know how they turn out! http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Sourdough-English-Muffins
One of my dads favorite homemade breakfasts is egg mcmuffin. But we’ve never made our own English muffins. I am going to have to do this one soon. Your muffins look so perfect! I thought they were store bought!!! Love this Kristen! 🙂
Thanks Carla 🙂
I *must* dust off my bread machine and give these English Muffins a try! Homemade breads are always so much better than mass produced. And the Sausage-Cheese McMuffins. Yeah, me too 🙂
Love that these are homemade and a whole lot healthier than McD’s version! Thank you!!
OH MY!! Thank you for sharing the recipe! I’ve been salivating on my phone since you posted the pic on instagram! pinned!!
McD egg mcmuffins are my I drank too much the night before cure. LOL I love english muffins. Be fun to try and make homemade ones!!!!
YES!! I totally know what you mean! Mine too!
I gave up McDonald’s years ago but I’ve been desperately craving their english muffin sandwich! So glad I can recreate this! I hope it’s freeze-able so I can have this in the mornings when I’m in a hurry!
Totally freezable!
I so want to make these {gluten free of course}, but I don’t have a bread machine, boo. Wonder how to make the english muffins without a bread machine. Is it possible?
I don’t know much about gluten free baking but I found a non-bread machine recipe from Taste of Home that’s similar to this one: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Sourdough-English-Muffins
Also Karina with Gluten-Free Goddess has a gluten free recipe up on her blog. Hope that helps! http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/2009/04/gluten-free-english-muffins.html
I’m a bacon egg and cheese biscuit girl myself but I LOVE homemade english muffins.
That’s my absolute favorite too!!
Never thought I’d use the word “gorgeous” in reference to english muffins, haha! We love Egg McMuffins and I’ll make a big batch for grab-and-go breakfasts, I’m betting homemade muffins would take them over the top!
Wishing I hadn’t purged the bread machine in the last move but I’m guessing that adapting it to make in a kitchenaid wouldn’t be that hard, just figuring out how long to let it mix for with the dough hook. Country Cleaver has a DIY version for those asking http://www.countrycleaver.com/2012/01/diy-english-muffins.html
Ahhhh – just now saw this. Thanks so much, Sarah, for sharing her link! Yay!
Those English muffins are PERFECT. I love the breakfast sandwiches at McDonald’s, too. What a great homemade breakfast treat!
Oh my gosh–my husband would LOVE these.
Yeah! Those pillows of muffins sparked my drooling when I spied them on Instagram. Sooo glad to see the recipe. Now I gotta make them. Any ideas if you could do them with whole wheat, like what the ratio of flour might be? Same or diff?
I don’t have a bread machine and love homemade English muffins. Can I make these and how would I do it? Any help would be appreciated. Love your blog.
These look amazing! I grew up on english muffins and have such fond memories eating them with my mom and sister.
I love English muffins! I can’t wait to try and make them at home! Nothing better than a freshly baked muffin 🙂 Yum!
I can seriously hardly believe those English muffins are homemade, they are so perfect!! Love this!
Oh my gosh Kristen! These I have to make!
Those English Muffins look perfect Kristen, so impressive!
Good morning! 🙂 I am always looking for new recipes for my bread machine, and I loved this so much that I featured it on my A Little Sunday Potluck this morning. Please click on over to check it out my post and grab your Featured button if you feel so inclined…
http://www.thefrugalfoodiemama.com/2012/09/a-little-sunday-potluck-92312.html
Mine didn’t rise very high.
I am making this right now – I hope they come out as beautiful as yours!
do i warm the milk up before i put in bread machine
Ohmygosh! I made these tonight along with fried eggs + ham (breakfast for dinner). HUGE hit! My hubby even wants me to make some b-fast sandwiches to freeze, so he can take them to work in the mornings. Thank you so much for this awesome recipe! 😀
Just wanted to let you know I have made this recipe more times than I can count. Usually it is a weekly thing. I could not possibly buy another English Muffin after making these so easily and they taste so much better. I wanted to thank you for sharing this recipe. My bread machine is not working so hot lately, so I will soon try to make these by hand and since I know it is possible to do in a machine, I should be able to manage this too! Anyway, Thanks!!!
Thank you so much for letting me know!
Let me know how they work out for you if you try them by hand! Enjoy 🙂
I did try these by hand and they turned out great. Now I am wondering about using some wheat flour in them. Have you tried using whole wheat flour to make these?
Thanks!
I bet they’d totally work – or maybe start out with half and half and see how it goes? School is starting up in a couple weeks and I need to start making these again too!
Hello Kristen, I just wanted to let you know that I tried making these with whole wheat flour and even though they turned out, my husband said they weren’t as good and even though he loves the wheat breads, etc, he likes your original recipe better!
For those wanting to try this in wheat, I used 2 cups of AP flour and 7/8 cup of whole wheat flour (1 cup minus 2 T), and I added 1 T of milk during the kneading because it was pretty dry. The rising was good and the grilling was same as always.
We are trying to incorporate a healthier diet, but I will just stick with your original recipe that we have been making and sharing with others.
Anyway, thanks again!
Thank you so much for coming back here and letting me know! Sounds like I’ll stick with AP flour for these as well then 🙂
Hi Kristen, I am from Singapore so I would like to ask if the cornmeal used in this recipe is yellow or white cornmeal? Sorry, it is my first time trying this so I have no idea.. Thank you! ^^
Hi Lynn – I had no idea there were differences! Thanks for the question. It is yellow corn meal (but I imagine either will do as it’s main purpose is to keep the dough from really sticking .
I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks!
Thank you for your prompt reply. I see! Okay, will try out soon! Yours look really gooooood! Thank you so much for your help, Kristen! <3
is the butter room temperature or is it melted?
Hi – room temperature! Thanks!
I made these. They taste good, but the texture us more bread like than English muffin. I’ll try it again after I get an electric griddle. I used a fry pan and had to flip them several times to get them done without burning.