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McDonald's Hotcakes cost $5.29 and carry 580 calories for three. Order them inside the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes and the plate reaches 1,340 — the highest calorie item McDonald's sells.
McDonald's Hotcakes are $5.29 for three, with butter and syrup, at 580 calories. The Big Breakfast with Hotcakes adds a biscuit, sausage, scrambled eggs and hash browns for $8.29 and reaches 1,340 calories.
Hotcakes are the only pancake item McDonald's sells and the sweetest thing on the breakfast board. This page covers every way to order them, the full nutrition, the sugar figure most guides skip, and how the Big Breakfast compares with and without them. Prices for the rest of the board are on our McDonald's breakfast menu, and serving cut-offs are on breakfast hours.
Our surveyed national midpoint is $5.29 for the standalone order of three. Every version comes with real butter and maple-flavoured hotcake syrup as standard, and neither is optional pricing — they are packed with the order whether you use them or not.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | BEST FOR |
|---|---|---|---|
McDonald's HotcakesThree hotcakes, butter and syrup | $5.29 | 580 | Sweet breakfast |
McDonald's Hotcakes and SausageAdds one pork sausage patty | $6.29 | 780 | Sweet and savoury |
Big BreakfastNo hotcakes. Biscuit, eggs, sausage, hash browns | $5.69 | 760 | Savoury plate |
Big Breakfast with HotcakesThe full plate. Highest calorie item McDonald's sells | $8.29 | 1,340 | Biggest appetite |
Rural and small townLowest recorded band, hotcakes only | $4.69 | 580 | Cheapest |
Airport and highwayHighest recorded band, hotcakes only | $6.49 | 580 | Travel |
One order of McDonald's Hotcakes is three, with butter and syrup, at 580 calories. Most of that is carbohydrate and sugar rather than fat, which makes the macro profile very different from the rest of the breakfast board.
| NUTRIENT | AMOUNT | % DV | NOTE |
|---|---|---|---|
Calories | 580 | 29% | Three hotcakes |
Carbohydrate | 102g | 37% | Highest on the menu |
Total sugars | 45g | — | Mostly the syrup |
Total fat | 15g | 19% | Lower than sandwiches |
Saturated fat | 6g | 30% | Butter packet |
Protein | 9g | 18% | Low for the calories |
Sodium | 590mg | 26% | Moderate |
Fibre | 3g | 11% | — |
At 580 calories, McDonald's Hotcakes sit above every breakfast sandwich except the Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddle at 550, and well above an Egg McMuffin at 310. On protein they are the weakest of the lot at 9g.
Full menu comparison on McDonald's nutrition and calories.
This is the largest single order on the McDonald's menu, breakfast or otherwise. A biscuit, a sausage patty, scrambled eggs, hash browns and three hotcakes with butter and syrup, on one plate, for 1,340 calories.
| WHAT'S ON THE PLATE | CALORIES | PROTEIN | NOTE |
|---|---|---|---|
McDonald's Hotcakes, butter, syrupThe upgrade over the plain Big Breakfast | 580 | 9g | 43% of the plate |
Warm biscuit | 310 | 5g | — |
Sausage patty | 200 | 8g | — |
Scrambled eggs | 170 | 13g | Most protein |
| 140 | 1g | — | |
Full plate total2,075mg sodium, 62g fat, 162g carbs | 1,340 | 36g | 67% of a day |
The plain Big Breakfast is $5.69 and 760 calories. Adding hotcakes takes it to $8.29 and 1,340. You are paying $2.60 for 580 calories and 45g of sugar. It is worth it only if you genuinely want the hotcakes, which is the honest test for any upgrade on this menu.
McDonald's Hotcakes are three griddled pancakes served with two packets: real salted whipped butter and maple-flavoured hotcake syrup. The syrup is flavoured rather than actual maple, which matters more than it sounds, because it is where nearly all the sugar comes from.
| COMPONENT | COUNT | ALLERGEN | NOTE |
|---|---|---|---|
HotcakesGriddled to order, roughly 4 inches across | 3 | Wheat, egg, milk, soy | ~350 cal alone |
Salted whipped butterReal butter, one packet | 1 | Milk | ~50 cal |
Hotcake syrupMaple flavoured, not maple syrup | 1 | — | ~180 cal, 40g sugar |
MeatNot included unless you order Hotcakes and Sausage | 0 | — | Add for $1.00 |
Contains wheat, egg, milk and soy, so not suitable for gluten free, dairy free or vegan diets. Full detail on McDonald's own product page.
The middle option, and the one most people should probably order if they want both sweet and savoury. It is the standard McDonald's Hotcakes plate plus one pork sausage patty, for a dollar more and 200 more calories, without the biscuit and hash browns that push the Big Breakfast past 1,300.
| ORDER | PRICE | CALORIES | PROTEIN |
|---|---|---|---|
McDonald's HotcakesThree, with butter and syrup | $5.29 | 580 | 9g |
McDonald's Hotcakes and SausageAdds a pork sausage patty | $6.29 | 780 | 17g |
Big Breakfast with HotcakesAdds biscuit, eggs and hash browns on top | $8.29 | 1,340 | 36g |
Sausage McMuffinFor comparison. Under $3 Menu item | $2.89 | 400 | 14g |
McDonald's Hotcakes are not on the Under $3 Menu and do not appear in the $4 Breakfast Meal Deal, which covers the Sausage McMuffin and Sausage Biscuit only. Current offers on McDonald's meal deals.
No. They are breakfast only and stop with everything else, usually between 10:30am and 11:00am. All Day Breakfast ran from 2015 to 2020 and has not returned nationally. Times vary by restaurant, and the full picture is on our breakfast hours page.
580 calories for an order of three with butter and syrup. That is McDonald's published figure. Leaving the syrup off drops it to roughly 430, because the packet alone carries around 180 calories and 40g of sugar.
$5.29 at the national midpoint for three with butter and syrup. Hotcakes and Sausage is $6.29, and the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes is $8.29. Rural restaurants run closer to $4.69 and airport locations to $6.49.
Three, each roughly four inches across, served with one packet of real salted whipped butter and one of maple-flavoured hotcake syrup. That is the same stack whether you order them alone or inside the Big Breakfast.
1,340, which makes it the highest calorie single order McDonald's sells. For comparison, a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese is 740 and two Big Macs come to 1,140. It also carries 2,075mg of sodium, around 90 percent of the daily recommendation.
Three hotcakes, butter and syrup. The plain version is $5.69 and 760 calories; with hotcakes it is $8.29 and 1,340. You are paying $2.60 for 580 extra calories and 45g of sugar.
No. It is described as maple-flavoured hotcake syrup rather than maple syrup. It contributes roughly 40g of added sugar, which is about 80 percent of the FDA daily recommendation of 50g in one packet.
The standard three hotcakes with butter and syrup, plus one pork sausage patty. It is 780 calories and $6.29, which sits between the plain hotcakes and the full Big Breakfast plate.
No. They are breakfast only, and most restaurants stop serving between 10:30am and 11:00am. All Day Breakfast ran from 2015 to 2020 and has not returned nationally. Times are on our breakfast hours page.
Neither. They contain wheat, egg, milk and soy, and are cooked on shared griddle surfaces. The butter packet adds dairy on top. There is no gluten free or dairy free version on the US menu.
Use half the syrup, or skip it. Both packets are handed over separately rather than poured on, so you control the amount. Half the syrup saves roughly 90 calories and 20g of sugar without changing the taste much.
Prices shown are based on typical U.S. McDonald’s menu prices as of August 2026 and may vary by location. Check your local restaurant or McDonald’s app for the latest prices.
Timing questions are answered on breakfast hours .
Priya has tracked fast food pricing since 2019. Every figure on this page comes from our own field survey: eight researchers photograph restaurant menu boards at 62 locations across 14 states in the first week of each month, and we publish the median. We do not use app pricing, which runs higher, and we do not carry figures forward from a previous month without re-checking them.