Easy vegan banana pancakes! Perfect for a delicious vegan breakfast topped with sliced bananas and syrup. Light, fluffy and perfect.
These vegan banana pancakes are light and fluffy with loads of banana flavor, and served with plenty of sliced banana and syrup they make a perfect breakfast treat.
They’re also super easy to make, so they’re just perfect for a lazy Sunday morning.
This recipe is adapted from our vegan pancakes recipe with a little inspo from our vegan banana waffles.
Too Much Banana?
The issue I kept running into when recipe testing these vegan banana pancakes was wanting to use too much banana in the batter.
Cooking these pancakes on a gas stove, they would have been burned on the outside before I got to the right texture on the inside. The flavor was great! But it was too wet inside.
So I had to reduce the amount of banana until I used just one large banana in the batter. It’s not a lot, but it turned out to be just enough so that the pancakes have delicious banana flavor, but are still nice and light and fluffy inside, and not weighed down by too much banana.
How To Make Vegan Banana Pancakes
- Making the batter is just a simple case of sifting some flour into a mixing bowl and adding a little sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon and mixing together.
- Mash banana in a bowl with coconut oil and add it to the mixing bowl along with soy milk and vanilla extract and mix into a thick batter.
- Heat up a pan with some coconut oil until hot and then add in around ¼ cup of batter for your first pancake. When it starts looking a little dry along the edges with little bubbles on top then it’s time to flip it and cook it on the other side until nicely browned.
- Serve topped with loads of sliced banana and drizzles of syrup!
Pancake Tips
Measure the banana correctly. You can either weigh our your banana on a food scale and then mash it up in a bowl with the coconut oil OR if you don’t have a food scale, then mash the banana first so that you can measure out the correct amount in your measuring cup.
Cook the pancakes long enough. Even with the perfect amount of banana in these pancakes you do still have to cook them until very nicely browned on each side, flipping often, and pressing down with your spatula, so that they have time to get perfectly cooked on the inside.
Recipe FAQ
You can replace the regular flour in this recipe with a gluten-free all purpose blend.
Leftover pancakes can be stored in the fridge for up to 5 days. Reheat them in the toaster or microwave.
These banana pancakes are freezer friendly for up to 2 months. You can reheat them directly from frozen in the toaster.
More Vegan Breakfast Recipes
- Vegan Blueberry Pancakes
- Vegan Pumpkin Pancakes
- Vegan Blueberry Muffins
- Vegan French Toast
- Vegan Omelette
- Super Eggy Vegan Tofu Scramble
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Vegan Banana Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups All Purpose Flour (156g)
- 2 Tbsp White Granulated Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Baking Powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- ½ cup Mashed Banana (120g, about 1 large ripe banana)
- 1 Tbsp Coconut Oil + more for frying
- ¾ cup Soy Milk (180ml) or another non-dairy milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
For Serving:
- Sliced Banana
- Maple Syrup
Instructions
- Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and add the sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon, mix together.
- Mash the banana in a bowl and add the coconut oil and mash together. Add to the mixing bowl with the soy milk and vanilla and mix in. Your batter will be fairly thick.
- Heat up a pan with a little coconut oil until hot and then add in some batter for your first pancake, around ¼ cup of batter at a time. When the pancake starts looking dry along the sides with little bubbles on top, then flip it over until browned on the other side. Keep flipping and pushing down with your spatula until the pancakes are very nicely browned and the inside has had a chance to cook through.
- Serve pancakes with some sliced bananas, other fresh fruits as you like and syrup for drizzling.
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Notes
- Measure the banana correctly. You can either weigh our your banana on a food scale and then mash it up in a bowl with the coconut oil OR if you don’t have a food scale, then mash the banana first so that you can measure out the correct amount in your measuring cup.
- Gluten-free: You can replace the regular flour in this recipe with a gluten-free all purpose blend to make these pancakes gluten-free.
- Storing: Leftover pancakes can be stored in the fridge for up to 5 days. Reheat them in the toaster or microwave.
- Freezing: These banana pancakes are freezer friendly for up to 2 months. You can reheat them directly from frozen in the toaster.
The batter seem a bit too thick. Even on the low heat with longer cooking time on each side they are turn out nice and crispy outside but too soft and gooey inside. Thinner pancakes are a bit better, but thicker ones are not. Overall, they taste like I’m eating raw dough even though they seem to be cooked through. I don’t have time to try and adjust recipes, I just need something that works great from the first try, and I have been cooking for years so it’s not like I don’t know how to cook. It seems like many vegan recipes often have many issues and I end up feeling disappointed. I should stick to classic vegan well tried recipes to same my time and headache next time.
Just made these and ate a few. My mom isn’t vegan and was slightly skeptical. She tried them and really liked them. Same with me.
So glad you liked them Irene!
absolutely delicious
My new favorite, made these and served with peanut butter and syrup.
Yummy! 🙂 thanks for your review Maggie!
Very nice recipe chef 👍👌👏. Thank you for your effort 🌞😎.
Thanks for your review Jasson! 🙂
Stunning receipe. Perked us right up this morning! 😀
Happy to hear Christiana! Thanks for your review! 🙂
Can you exclude sugar?
Sure!
I was out of cinnamon so I subbed pumpkin pie spice. My husband said these were the best pancakes he’s ever had! Thank you!
Yay! Thank you so much Steph!
I have made this recipe at least 10 times. These pancakes are so fluffy and tasty and easy to make too!! Definitely a delicious pancake, not just for a vegan pancake.
Thanks Sophia!