Breakfast Sausage Balls with maple syrup.
Breakfast Sausage Balls are an easy morning-meal solution when you’re getting ready for Thanksgiving or Black Friday shopping or just want something quick and filling to stuff in your pie hole. Sausage and pancakes and maple syrup rolled into one, with a bonus hit of cheddar cheese. Found this recipe on Tik-Tok so you know it’s good. Makes about 24 1-inch sausage balls.
Ingredients:
2 ½ c “just add water” pancake mix such as Hungry Jack*
¼ to ½ c milk
2 c shredded cheddar cheese
1 lb roll breakfast sausage (Jones Dairy Farm preferred)
Syrup (maple preferred) for serving
Method: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine ingredients in a bowl. Thoroughly mix using a sturdy spoon or the slow speed of stand mixer. Start with ¼ c milk and add more as needed; you want just enough to form a cohesive mass with no dry sections of flour.
Use a tablespoon or ice cream scoop to shape into balls. Arrange the balls on a half sheet pan or two quarter sheet pans (cookie sheets) lined with silicone pad or parchment paper, allowing about an inch between balls for expansion.
Bake until the balls puff up nicely and begin to brown, about 25 minutes. Serve hot with maple or other syrup. Breakfast Sausage Balls reheat nicely in oven or microwave.
*Confusingly, there are other “complete” pancake mixes that look almost identical but have a blurb “just add milk and eggs”. Those are probably better but defeat the purpose of a quick and easy preparation.
I do believe there is a recipe for something similar on a box of Bisquick….or I had a recipe many years ago….thank you for reminding me of this little gem of a treat….I have made it with reduced fat Bisquick in the past and may try this again for the upcoming holidays….why do you prefer Jones sausage over others? My hubs and FIL like Jimmy Dean Sage….I’m not picky…but am curious?
I’m a shameless shill for Jones Dairy Farm for reasons you’ll find at the link. A few years ago they invited me and a few others to spend two days at the CIA experimenting with their product and eating good food. I’d feel guilty eating any other sausage after that. And it is a good product with a very balanced taste. I also enjoy their scrapple (which is impossible to find in these parts) and Canadian bacon (fun fact, they are by a landslide the best selling Canadian bacon in the US).