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.
How to make vegan banana pancakes
The issue I kept running into when recipe testing was wanting to use too much banana in the batter.
With my banana waffles recipe, I found that I had to cook them quite a long time, until very golden brown on the outside to get to the right level of cooked on the inside.
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.
So 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.
Then mash up some banana in a bowl with some coconut oil and add to the mixing bowl with some 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 1/4 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.
Mash or blend?
I have a little thing with banana recipes like our vegan banana bread and vegan banana cake and vegan banana bread muffins where instead of mashing the banana, I just blend it along with the other wet ingredients. It enables you to have a very smooth batter with the banana very evenly dispersed.
With these pancakes I tried it both ways, blended and mashed.
It’s often easier to blend if you have a few bananas and coconut oil that you won’t have to melt first if you’re blending it all up. So in that respect it can make it a bit easier, but since this recipe only uses one banana and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, you can also just mash it all up in a bowl. Your batter won’t be as smooth, but I didn’t notice a difference in the final result.
Top Tip: 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.
These vegan banana pancakes are totally divine, they are:
- Easy
- 9-Ingredients
- Perfect for breakfast
- Light and fluffy
- Banana flavored
Serve topped with loads of sliced banana and drizzles of syrup!
More vegan breakfast recipes!
- Vegan Blueberry Pancakes
- Vegan Pumpkin Pancakes
- Vegan Blueberry Muffins
- Vegan French Toast
- Vegan Omelette
- Super Eggy Vegan Tofu Scramble
What do you think of these gorgeous vegan banana pancakes? I hope they’ll be on your Sunday breakfast menu soon! Post any questions in the comments below and please do rate the recipe too. Thanks so much.
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Vegan Banana Pancakes
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 25 mins
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 8
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Easy vegan banana pancakes! Perfect for a delicious vegan breakfast topped with sliced bananas and syrup. Light, fluffy and perfect.
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/4 cups (156g) All Purpose Flour
- 2 Tbsp Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 Large Ripe Banana, (1/2 cup mashed/120g)
- 1 Tbsp Coconut Oil + more for frying
- 3/4 cup (180ml) Soy Milk (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 1/4 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.
Notes
*Nutritional information is for 1 pancake of 8 excluding any toppings.
- Category: Breakfast, Dessert
- Method: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Vegan
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 Pancake
- Calories: 124
- Sugar: 5g
- Sodium: 281mg
- Fat: 2.3g
- Saturated Fat: 1.5g
- Carbohydrates: 22.9g
- Fiber: 1.1g
- Protein: 2.9g
Keywords: vegan banana pancakes
Delicious ! I’ve been wanting to make these for ages, so pleased with how they came out. I used olive oil instead of coconut, and oat milk. Can’t wait to try with with different toppings/fillings. Pleased to hear they freeze well, as I make smaller versions. Thanks Alison !
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So happy to hear they came out great Jackie! Thanks for sharing and the awesome review. 🙂
Easy and so tasty! Best recipe!
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Thanks Suzi! xo
I loveeeee these pancakes and have made them once before. Unfortunately this time i don’t have coconut oil, do you know if there’s anything i can substitute in for that. 😊
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Hi Tristan, I think any vegetable oil can do fine as a sub. So happy you like the recipe, thanks for the awesome rating! 🙂
I made the recipe this morning..They are fluffy, sweet, and delicious! I do have quite a bit of batter leftover. I know refrigerating the batter is not ideal. Have you tried making the pancakes and freezing them?
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Hi Tiffany! So glad you liked the recipe! Yes, you can freeze them. 🙂 Thanks for the wonderful rating!
Is that 1 tbs of baking powder meant to be 1 tsp?
Nope! It’s 1 Tbsp for a really fluffy texture.
Can you leave the batter in the fridge for another day?
Hi Charlotte, you could, but the banana would oxidize and make the batter brown, which is less ideal. 🙂
Thank you for this! I just found out my 3 year old is gluten/dairy/egg sensitive. When the oldest had a pancake breakfast at the school, I made these so he could join in the fun! Everyone was peeking at his and asking for a little taste! He had so much fun sharing them that he never even knew he might have been left out. Again, thank you. I have made them 3 times in 5 days because everyone wants them 🙂
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So happy to hear! Thanks so much for posting and the wonderful review. 🙂
Great recipe! We’ve enjoyed pancakes immensely. Thank You!
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Wonderful! Thanks so much for the great review. 🙂
I just made these with cow’s milk, sunflower oil and spelt flour, omitting the vanilla extract, and they came out really great! Fluffy and juicy on the inside, crispy and caramelized around the edges. Brushed them with butter and served them with a quick and easy blueberry sauce (just blueberries, cooked with finely diced ginger and a few rosemary needles, finished with a dash of lemon juice). I found the amount of banana just right.
I deviated quite a bit from ‘vegan’ in terms of dairy, but I was pleasantly surprised that the eggs were not at all necessary, neither in terms of process (they did not fall apart at all) nor flavour-wise. Thanks for the recipe!
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Hi Daniel! So glad to hear they worked out well, thanks for sharing and the wonderful review! 🙂
Made this tonight for my baby. I left out the cinnamon and the salt, and I used regular cows milk instead of soy milk. They came out great! They smell and taste great, they are thick and fluffy, and my 8 month old loved them ? thank you!
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So glad you enjoyed them! xo
These are one of the best banana flapjack recipes I’ve ever come across. Wow! I’ve been craving these for days and this recipe far exceeds my expectations. Even my non-vegan boyfriend loves these! Thanks for your top-notch recipe ??
So happy to hear that Abby! Thanks so much for sharing. 🙂
Turned out really well! I used just water instead of soy milk, I find it rarely makes a difference, and indeed you couldn’t tell here!
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing and the wonderful review. 🙂
These were really good! I substituted for white whole wheat flour, added some ground flaxseed, and omitted the sugar. I found the sweetness from the banana and maple syrup on top was just enough 🙂
Thanks for the recipe!
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So happy to hear you enjoyed them Megan, thanks so much for the great review! 🙂