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.
Just made these this morning, subbed 3/4 cup of flour with oat flour, did 1 tbsp of sugar, and these came out beautifully!! Entire family enjoyed them. Didn’t need any syrup at all as they were perfectly sweet. Thank you!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing Sophia!
Hi these taste great but don’t feel the batter cooked properly they came out dense any clues as to why? The batter was thick
The most common reason can be over-mixing the batter which can create a dense result. But in terms of not cooking properly they may just have needed longer.
I just made these and I loved them.
Hi there
Made these today ! Lovely ! Great recipe!
And will be making them a regular thing to use up my bananas
I had mine with chocolate spread and a sprinkle of mixed seeds
Can you store the batter in the fridge for a few days do you know?
Hi Tara, so glad you liked the recipe. I’m not sure about the batter doing well for a few days in the fridge. Often vegan batters don’t do so great in this way.
Hey! I understand baking soda is not an option usually but is there any way I could use it with an acid etc to achieve some fluffiness since I do not have any baking powder nor the means to get it at this point? Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Hi Zainab, you could try using 1 tsp baking soda and adding a tsp of lemon juice to the batter. I haven’t tried this myself but I think it would work here.
Recently went vegan & you can’t even tell they’re vegan & i used bobs red mills GF flour & used coconut sugar instead…. im going to try the other flavors soon.
Awesome! Thanks Amanda!
SO GOOD! MY NON VEGAN BOYFRIEND LIKED THEM!
Yay! Thanks Tatti!
I loved this!! So light and fluffy. Just wondering, I’m from Australia and the tablespoon size we use is 20ml so I just wanted to check if this is using a 20ml tablespoon or 15ml tablespoon size. There was a little baking powder aftertaste and thought this may be the reason – ie I’d assumed 20ml size. Thank u so much!
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Hi Kristin, we use US measures, so yes the tablespoons are 15ml. So glad they were still good though!
These are my go-to pancakes. I’ve had bad vegan pancakes but these are perfect every time!
Awesome! Thanks Laura!
is it definately 1 tablespoon of baking soda?
NO! It’s 1 Tbsp of baking powder. Baking powder and baking soda are different things and this recipe will not work out well at all if you use baking soda.
So fluffy and tasty!
These are absolutely delicious and have quickly become a family favorite! They are so tasty and have won over the non-vegan skeptics in the family. It’s become our go-to recipe for Sunday breakfast. Thank you!!!
Thanks Darianna!
Never had much success making pancakes. I finally have a recipe that works, with a flavour that rivals anything I’ve had before. Excellent work!
Awesome! Thanks so much Yasemin!
Hi Alison!
Have tried so many of your recipes and have always loved them. Was wondering – will whole wheat flour or oat flour work well with this recipe?
Thanks in advance xx
Hi Nona, I think whole wheat flour would work fine, I’m not sure about oat flour. 🙂 So glad you have enjoyed the recipes, thank you!
Hi, These look delicious! Just checking The measurement of the Baking Powder. Is 1 Tablespoon correct? It seems like a lot. Thank you
Yep that’s correct! It’s for ultimate fluffiness. 🙂