These fluffy vegan pancakes are adapted from Isa Chandra!
I think everyone should have a good vegan pancake recipe up their sleeve. Not only is being vegan is cool but also we all have those times when we run out of eggs but pancakes MUST BE HAD.
Isa’s recipe for puffy pillow pancakes was a revolutionary catalyst in my pancake journey. It doesn’t really call for any odd ingredients (you can omit the flax if you don’t have it), yet it doesn’t use any eggs or butter and is totally fluffy and golden and delicious just like the real deal. It’s probably one of the first pancake recipes I featured on my blog and to this day, it’s still one of my favorite pancake recipes.
Lately, I’ve been gravitating towards gluten-free recipes in an effort to get away from refined flour and sugar, but I wanted to share these with you because these are still really, really good vegan pancakes. Also I just wanted to make a towering stack of pancakes.
If you’ve ever doubted that a vegan pancake could be good, make these. It’s comfort food veganized! These are crazy fluffy, perfect PB&J material, and you should go try them right now!
Pancake Fridays: Basic Vegan Pancakes, 2 ways
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond milk or soy milk
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon ground flax seed
- 1.5 cups white whole wheat flour
- 3.5 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup water or additional milk
- 3 tablespoons neutral oil or olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Add milk, vinegar and flax to a measuring cup and whisk to combine with a fork until slightly foamy.
- In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk mixture. Add the additional milk or water, oil and vanilla and use a fork to mix until just combined—you want a thick, lumpy batter.
- Preheat the pan over medium-low heat and let the batter rest for 5-10 minutes.
- Lightly coat the pan in oil. Make sure the pan is nice and hot before you add the batter (if it doesn’t seem hot enough, increase the heat to medium) or else run the risk of pale pancakes. Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup of batter for each pancake, and cook for about 4 minutes, until puffy. Flip the pancakes, adding a new coat of oil to the pan, and cook for another 3 minutes or so. Pancake should be about an inch thick, and golden brown.
- For pumpkin pancakes: swap maple syrup or brown sugar for the sugar, add ½ cup pumpkin instead of the additional water, and add 1 teaspoon cinnamon + dashes of nutmeg, ginger OR 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice. Batter will be VERY thick–I like them this way, but add additional milk if you want thinner pancakes.
Laura Dembowski
Those are some fantastic looking vegan pancakes! So fluffy. That stack has me wanting pancakes for dinner.
afracooking
It might be evening, but man am I craving breakfast right now. These look fabulous!
Kelly
OMG, your sky high vegan pancakes look incredible Erika! They both look amazing but I would love a bite of those pumpkin buttermilk ones for breakfast 🙂 Yum and those action shots are making me drool!
erika
Thanks Kelly 🙂
Alex @ Brain, Body, Because
Ah, these look so good! And, yes, I definitely know what you mean about NEEDING pancakes, but you’re missing one or two ingredients (like eggs) but carry on anyway!
erika
Haha YES exactly!!
Kayle (The Cooking Actress)
bahahahaaa pancake jenga! You’re such a pancake genius!
erika
🙂
veganmiam
These pancakes look fantastic – that’s the kind of breakfast I am craving for during travels!
erika
Thanks Rika 🙂
Irina @ wandercrush
Awwwwwwsnap. That stack of precious little things… I’ve always had trouble with vegan-ifying pancakes without having them turn out to be gummy, but the cross-section photos are inspiring! I’ll have to try your recipe soon. Digggin’ the syrupy gif goodness.
Alicia
No way. These look to die for! Poppyseed?! I am so excited to try these 🙂
erika
Ah sadly the poppyseed was my least favorite 🙁 But I’m working on another version that will be up soon! 🙂
kylie @ immaeatthat
Umm those pumpkin pancakes…yes, please! And with a description like “puffy pillow pancakes”, how can I not make these?!
erika
I know. They are calling for you to make them!
CCU
I have never seen thicker pancakes than yours nor have I seen fluffier – truly you are the princess 😀
Cheers
CCU
Brandi
What happened with the lemon poppyseed ones? Can’t you just add lemon juice and poppyseed to the basic recipe? Or am I am airhead, lol?! I’ve never had them, so I don’t know. They look delicious! I have to agree good vegan pancakes are hard to come by, but to this day, I’ve never eaten a better pancake in my life than the Gingersnap ones I make, vegan or not! The ingredients are similar to this recipe, so I’m sure I’d love these! Need to try them with pumpkin 🙂
erika
That’s exactly what I tried, plus zest. They just tasted kind of off though–not a recipe I’d recommend for anyone to try! Ugh I have no idea what I’m doing wrong 🙁 I still need to try your gingersnap ones!
yummychunklet
What a great flip-book photo spread!
Shikha
I can’t handle any of this. Photos = outta this world. Pancakes = outta this world. You = outta this world.
erika
You = the best 🙂
Nancy @ gottagetbaked
Can I play pancake jenga WHILE I’m in Paris/Hawaii while sitting near my life-time supply of cheese? That would be perfection! That first photo, gah! Talk about a money shot. I wanted that glorious stack of impossibly thick ‘n fluffy pancakes to magically appear before me. I really need to learn to take action shots. I love seeing that pour of syrup flowing down. What was wrong with your lemon poppyseed pancakes? They look incredible so was something off with the taste? Nosy minds need to know!
erika
Hahaha now that you mention it, that does sound AMAZING. Okay so I just bought a tripod and it is the best EVER. That’s how I got the the action shots! I bought the one that Sally (SBA) recommends on her page and I love it so far. Ugh I don’t even know what was wrong with the lemon poppyseed exactly, they were just not quite right. I want them to taste EXACTLY like a lemon poppyseed muffin and they were oh so far from that!
Michelle
I’m skeptical of vegan pancakes, but I have to admit, these look delicious! Next time I’m out of egss, I’ll try them! 🙂
erika
Yay! I really think you’ll hardly be able to tell the difference from non-vegan ones!