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.
Sherry
Just made these and they were fabulous! Thank u!!
erika
Yay!! Glad you liked them and thanks for letting me know 🙂
luminousvegans
Oh my gosh, those cookies and cream pancakes look AMAZING!!!
Sarah
Hi! My first time on your site. Really enjoying it–and the possibilities with this pumpkin recipe! Love that you’re a Scandal watcher! We just got hooked a few weeks ago and were watching every night leading up to the season premiere. Now that we’re caught up, I miss the cast!
🙂 Sarah
erika
Thanks lady! OH YAY! I also got hooked on Scandal kind of late–halfway through the second season. I binged on it and then was so sad I had to wait for the third season!! But then my boyfriend just got hooked on it so we pretty much did the same thing as you guys leading up to he season 3 premiere! SO GOOD.
Sarah
So good 🙂 I need another show like it–have been thinking about checking out Suits (know anything about it?)
On another note, I loved seeing the kale smoothies you had going on during your detox period. I used to make very similar ones and then recently had to go off all sugar, sweeteners, and fruit(!) for a while. Not easy. Anyway, I thought that you’d appreciate the heroism involved in having a kale smoothy with no fruit (ah!) I discovered the magic of vanilla and carob. But I won’t lie–you can taste the kale. You can also taste just how noble you’re being 😉
Hope you’re having a great weekend!
Sarah
erika
Hmm I’ve heard of Suits–I’ll have to check it out! Unfortunately, none of the other shows I watch are quite up to par…Revenge, The Vampire Diaries, ANTM, New Girl, The Mindy Project, The Client List, to name a few…not nearly as intelligent as you can tell haha.
And WOW that is amazing heroism!!! I don’t think I could ever do a kale smoothie without fruit–that’s so impressive! Are you back on sugar now? Why did you have to cut it out? I really want to cut refined sugar out of mine, but it is TOUGH!
Hope you’re having a great weekend as well!
Sarah
Hey there 🙂 Yes, we’re Revenge and Vampire Diaries watchers (also Elementary and Person of Interest). Have you seen Veronica Mars? If not, you might just love it…
Thank you for appreciating my heroism ;)! I went off sugar to treat a possible case of mild candida. I’m now more relaxed about it (like when eating at a restaurant or at someone’s home). It’s so tricky focusing on what you don’t want to eat–then you end up focusing on it a lot! But it has been cool learning about foods I hadn’t really realized were sweet before…
🙂 Sarah