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Updated 16 August 2026

McDonald's Hotcakes
Breakfast

McDonald's Hotcakes

$5.59 580 Cal 9g protein

If you love pancakes, you've got to try McDonald's hotcakes with a side of real butter and sweet maple flavored hotcake syrup. This McDonald's breakfast comes with 3 golden brown hotcakes.

Checked across 10 restaurants, $4.54 to $6.69.

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Nutritional Facts

Per serving · Based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Total580kcal
Protein9g18%
Carbs101g34%
Fat15g23%
NutrientAmount% DV
Calories580kcal29%
Total Fat15g23%
Saturated Fat6g30%
Trans Fat0g—
Cholesterol40mg13%
Sodium530mg23%
Total Carbohydrates101g34%
Dietary Fiber2g7%
Total Sugars45g90%
Added Sugars40g80%
Protein9g18%
Calcium130mg10%
Iron3mg17%
Potassium430mg9%
Caffeine0mg—
Nutritional values come from McDonald's published data and may vary by location or customisation. Updated 16 August 2026. Compare this item against the rest of the menu with the nutrition calculator.

McDonald's Hotcakes Complete Information

A McDonald's Hotcakes costs $5.59 and carries 580 calories. Three buttermilk pancakes served with a pat of salted butter and hotcake syrup on the side.

Hotcakes are one of only five items on the McDonald's breakfast menu whose published ingredients contain no meat, which makes them one of the few genuinely vegetarian hot orders on the board. They arrive with the butter and syrup separate rather than poured, so how heavy the order ends up is partly your decision: the 580 calorie figure includes both. The Hotcakes and Sausage version at $6.69 adds a sausage patty and takes it out of the vegetarian category. Pair them with a black Coffee (Small) at $2.49, or compare against the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes at $8.44 if you want the full platter.

Health Insight

At 580 calories and 45g of sugar, this one is best treated as an occasional order rather than an everyday one.

Lighter alternative: Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit on the same menu comes in at 460 calories. See Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit

What Is in a McDonald's Hotcakes?

3 components, 23 ingredients in total, exactly as McDonald's lists them.

  1. Hotcakes15
    • Water
    • Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid)
    • Whey
    • Corn Flour
    • Soybean Oil
    • Sugar
    • Eggs
    • Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate)
    • Dextrose
    • Emulsifier (Mono And Diglycerides, Propylene Glycol Monoesters Of Fats And Fatty Acids, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate)
    • Salt
    • Xanthan Gum
    • Natural Flavors
    • Beta Carotene (Color)
    • Soy Lecithin

    Contains: Wheat, Egg, Milk, Soy

  2. Hotcake Syrup6
    • Corn Syrup
    • Sugar
    • Water
    • Natural Flavors
    • Potassium Sorbate (Preservative)
    • Caramel Color
  3. Salted Whipped Butter2
    • Sweet Cream
    • Salt
Ingredient statements are published by McDonald's and can change without notice. Regional suppliers mean a restaurant near you may use a slightly different formulation.

How to Make a Hotcakes at Home?

The whole trick with buttermilk pancakes is undermixing. Lumps in the batter become air in the cake, and a smooth batter makes something closer to a crepe. The restaurant version is $5.59.

27 min15 prep, 12 cookEasydifficulty6 hotcakesyield
Servings2

Ingredients0 of 9

Hotcakes

To serve

Method0 of 5 steps

Tips

  • Lumpy batter. It looks wrong and it is right, and it is the single biggest factor in the texture.
  • Rest the batter ten minutes; the rise improves noticeably.
  • One flip only. A press after turning collapses everything you built.

Variations

  • Add a sausage patty for Hotcakes and Sausage, $6.69 in restaurant.
  • Fold blueberries into the batter, which McDonald’s does not offer in the US.
  • Use half buckwheat flour for a nuttier cake that still works with the syrup.

Serve hot with butter and syrup on the side. The restaurant version is $5.59 at 580 calories including both.

Pairs Well Together

Perfect Combination

A Hotcakes with a Coffee (Small) is what most breakfast runs come down to.

Hotcakes $5.59 Hotcakes Coffee (Small) $2.49 Coffee (Small)

Allergen Information

This item may contain the following allergens

  • Milk / Dairy
  • Wheat
  • Gluten
  • Egg
  • Soy

Allergen information for the Hotcakes is based on McDonald's standard recipe. Cross contamination is possible in restaurant kitchens, so tell staff about any allergy before you order.

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Hotcakes Questions

How much are Hotcakes at McDonald's?

Hotcakes are $5.59 at a typical US restaurant, a median from live listings with the range shown under the price above. The Hotcakes and Sausage version is $6.69.

How many calories in McDonald’s Hotcakes?

580 calories, which includes the butter and syrup served alongside. Less of either brings the figure down, since neither is poured on before serving.

Are McDonald’s Hotcakes vegetarian?

Their published ingredients contain no meat, making them one of only five such items on the breakfast menu. Kitchens share equipment so cross contact is possible, and adding sausage obviously changes it.

How many hotcakes come in an order?

Three, with a pat of salted butter and a portion of hotcake syrup on the side rather than poured over. The Big Breakfast with Hotcakes includes the same three alongside eggs, sausage and a hash brown.

What is hotcake syrup?

A maple flavored syrup rather than pure maple. The complete published ingredient statement for it and for the hotcakes themselves is in the recipe section on this page.

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