If you love pancakes but want to make a healthier version completely homemade, you have to try my Healthy Vegan Pancakes! They are free from dairy, eggs, and refined sugar. Plus, they are gluten-free! You can add in any of your favorite mix-ins including chocolate chips, walnuts, banana slices, blueberries–the options are endless. I like to pair my pancakes with some protein like this Tofu Chickpea Frittata or my Vegan Egg Frittata Muffins. If you are a sweet breakfast person, make my Vegan Brownie Banana Bread or Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cereal Bars next!
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Notes on Ingredients
- Gluten-free flour: Any gluten-free flour blend works. You can also use whole-wheat flour if you’re not gluten-free.
- Maple syrup: Be sure to use 100% maple syrup, not pancake syrup which is often high fructose corn syrup and artificial coloring.
- Apple sauce: Adds moisture to the pancakes without needing any oil. I use plain and unsweetened.
Please take note that this is important information about the ingredients used in this recipe and the FULL recipe with measurements and details can be found DOWN BELOW (scroll to it) in the recipe card.
How do you make Healthy Vegan Pancakes?
- Heat a non-stick pan on medium heat.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, flax, baking powder, cinnamon and pinch of salt.
- In a separate bowl, combine the wet ingredients – maple syrup, applesauce, almond milk and vanilla. Stir to completely combine.
- Add the wet ingredients to your dry ingredients and stir until there are no lumps.
- Make the pancakes! Measure ¼ cup for each pancake and cook them 1-2 minutes on each side.
- Enjoy!
- Step 1: First, heat a pan on medium heat. Mix together dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, mix together wet ingredients.
- Step 2: Then, add wet ingredients to dry and stir to combine. Make the pancakes with ¼ cup of batter and cook on each side for 1-2 minutes. Top with syrup and enjoy!
Commonly Asked Questions
Yes! Wrap each pancake in parchment paper or wax paper and freeze. To reheat, add them to a microwave or toaster until warmed through.
Anything! Blueberries, strawberries, banana, coconut flakes, hemp seeds, chocolate chips, maple syrup, agave, or even homemade raspberry chia jam!
You can substitute the ¼ cup of almond flour for ¼ cup coconut flour or oat flour. Use rice milk or oat milk instead of almond milk.
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Extra Helpful Tips
- This recipe makes about 2 servings–double or triple the recipe if you’re serving a crowd.
- Top with 100% pure maple syrup, agave, honey, or even nut butter!
- Freeze leftover pancakes and reheat them later in the microwave or toaster!
- This recipe is adapted from the Momables blog.
How to Store
Eat these pancakes fresh! Or freeze them individually and reheat in a toaster or microwave until warm.
If you tried these Healthy Vegan Pancakes or any other recipe on my blog, please leave a 5-star rating and let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting!
Healthy Vegan Pancakes (gluten-free!)
Equipment
Ingredients
- ¾ cup gluten-free all purpose flour
- ¼ cup almond flour
- 1 tablespoon flax seed ground
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2.5 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ cup applesauce unsweetened
- ¾ cup almond milk add up to ¼ cup if you need more
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Heat a non-stick pan on medium pan.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the gluten-free flour, ground flax, baking powder, cinnamon and pinch of salt.
- In a separate bowl combine the wet ingredients including maple syrup, applesauce, almond milk and vanilla. Stir to completely combine.
- Add the wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir until there are no lumps in the batter. If the batter is too thick, add ¼ cup more almond milk.
- Start making your pancakes! Measure ¼ cup for each pancake. Cook them 1-2 minutes on each side or until bubbles have formed and the side being cooked is golden brown.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- This recipe makes about 2 servings–double or triple the recipe if you’re serving a crowd.
- Top with 100% pure maple syrup, agave, honey, or even nut butter!
- Freeze leftover pancakes and reheat them later in the microwave or toaster!
- This recipe is adapted from the Momables blog.
Susan says
Hi, I’m not able to use all purpose flour of any kind. Is there another type that may work such as almond, coconut or maybe oat flour? Thank you!
Danielle Keith says
It’s gluten-free all purpose flour. I don’t know if you saw that. I haven’t tried other flours but feel free to experiment and report back!
Deb says
These are the best gluten free pancakes. I’ve been looking for an easy put together GF, WFPB pancake recipe and this one checks both those boxes. Plus, it is really tasty 😋 thank you for sharing with us.
Eileen Collins says
can i use oat flower and skip the glutten free and almond flower
Danielle Keith says
I have only tried it the way I have instructed. I know the gluten free flour works best!
Cassandra says
These are the best vegan pancakes! They are absolutely delicious and so easy to make and I had all the ingredients already in my pantry.
Definitely recommend these!
Anne Hilberg says
Best Pancakes ever ❤❤ They turned out super fluffy and delicious 😊
Tatiana says
I made these this morning and O M G they were fabulous!! I topped mine with a dab of maple syrup and tons of blueberries!! Yummy!!
Stephanie Tennant says
I don’t see anywhere how many this makes? Looks delish!
Taylor From HealthyGirl Kitchen says
about 6ish!
das says
This is a great recipe. Yum! I only made a few adjustments based upon taste and what I had on hand: reduced cinnamon to 1 tsp, used a combo of ground chia and flax seeds (b/c I had some already combined), and used unsweetened soy milk (again, what I had on hand). Delicious. My non-whole foods eating husband said, “these are great,” and ate 4! I added frozen blueberries. For us, the recipe made 6 pancakes. Thanks for this recipe!!
D. says
These look amazing! Have you made waffles with this recipe? I’m gonna give it a try.
Thanks for sharing this.
Jordan Stacy says
Hi D! Jordan from the HealthyGirl team here. We have not tried making waffles from this batter. Let us know how it goes if you do!
Jordan Stacy says
This is going to be your go-to healthy pancake recipe. They are super easy, fluffy, and even gluten-free!