Pancakes are one of my favourite foods, and have been since I was a little girl. Pancakes were also one of the things I was most concerned about potentially giving up when I switched to a vegan diet. They were one of the first ‘alternatives’ I was desperate to find.
Ideally, I wanted them to be gluten free as I find gluten pancakes can be quite stodgy. I hate bananas so the classic: oats, banana and dairy free milk options were out straight away. After trying many recipes and altering different ingredients here and there, I finally created these ones.
They’re light and fluffy but still suitably filling, sweet without being sickly sweet (although there are a few optional extras that make them super sweet), quick and easy. These are my go-to weekend brunch at home option and you can tweak them to add as many extras as you’d like.
Buckwheat alone has quite a plain taste so these pancakes are amazing at absorbing the flavours of extra ingredients or sauces you combine with them.
This recipe is vegan, gluten free, soy free, nut free (depending on milk of choice).
Serves 2
Approximately 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 cup buckwheat flour, or GF oat flour for a more neutral taste.
Nutritional information is for one serving including sauce, without any optional extras.
- 1 cup dairy free milk
- 0.5 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1tbsp brown sugar
- 1tbsp baking powder
- 1tsp vanilla extract
For the sauce:
- 140g frozen blueberries, for the sauce
- 1tsp sugar (optional)
Extras
- Syrup to taste (optional)
- 1tbsp chia seeds (optional)
- Choc chips (optional)
Method:
- Place non-stick frying pan on a medium heat.
- Add all dry ingredients to a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
- Add the wet ingredients; the mixture should be quite thick. More like natural yoghurt than a runny batter.
- If you’d like to add any berries/ choc chips to your mixture, stir them in now.
- In a small saucepan place the frozen blueberries on a low heat with a small amount of water, and sugar if using. Leave these to reduce as the pancakes are cooking, stirring every few minutes.
- Pour mixture into preheated pan, cooking for approximately two minutes on each side.
- Once cooked, stack them up and pour the sauce over them
Enjoy!
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I love pancakes! These look delicious
OMG they look so good! I love pancakes but I can never achieve that fluffy thickness! I am so going to try this recipe next weekend! xx corinne
Thank you! I hope you enjoy them 🙂 x
Sophie
These look so tasty! Pancakes have been one of the major things I have missed since going vegan , do you think they would work with any other kinds of flour or primarily just buckwheat
Ellie
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You could totally make them with regular plain flour and they’d work, just be a bit heavier. Or normal self raising and ditch the baking powder, as long as the basic ratios are the same I think you could use whatever you wanted. Have fun experimenting! x
Sophie
Omg they look incredible! I absolutely love pancakes! It’s making me want some now! I’m definitely going to give the recipe a try!
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Thank you! They’re pretty amazing with choc chips in too. Hope you enjoy! x
Sophie
Oh wow I can have these and love blueberries. I shall be saving this to try at a later date for a weekend treat.
Blueberries are the best! My favourite berry by a mile, I try to sneak them in everywhere. Hope you enjoy! x
Sophie
These look incredible! I think I definitely need to give these a try, although not sure they’ll look as tasty as yours! xo
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Aw thank you! I’m sure yours will be amazing though… x
Sophie
This recipe looks absolutely delicious! Definitely a recipie I will be trying out soon!
I hope you enjoy! Let me know how it goes x
Yummy yummy yummy, these look and sound amazing! This will be the next Sunday Brunch sorted.
Lea, xx
Yay! I love bookmarking recipes to look forward to sometime in the future x
Sophie
These look soooo good!
Thank you! x
These look delicious! I definitely want to give these a try one day, thanks for sharing your recipe!
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy! x
Sophie
I am a huge pancake fan Thanks for sharing the recipe will have to give it a try
I love pancakes! Definitely one of my favourite foods, hope you enjoy!
It’s almost midnight here and these photos are making me so hungry… will need to be trying this soon! x
Wellll a midnight snack has never hurt anyone! Let me know if you do, I hope you enjoy!! x
Oh!! I love Pancakes. The pictures are so mouth watering.. I mostly avoid eating to control the intake of sugar as I have a family history of Diabetes. But I do treat myself once in a while. 🙂
A treat every once in a while does you good I think! I actually have diabetes myself and I don’t find it holds me back too much, everything in moderation I guess 🙂 x
I have seriously died and gone to heaven! These pancakes look absolutely delicious! Your pictures are stunning as well! Will definitely be saving this recipe for later!
-GG
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Thank you for that! The weather was pretty awful as I was taking them so it was a bit of a struggle. Hope you enjoy them! x
Sophie
Oh wow these look so goood!!
I would seriously struggle to change to a vegan diet
hayleyxmartin
Thank you! It was relatively easy for me as I didn’t really like meat and dairy made my skin bad so I gave it up for the sake of my own vanity :’). It’s not for everyone though. x
Awesome! I avoided pancakes for so long as a vegan because the recipes just werent doing it for me lol. Thanks for this. You rock
Thank you! The struggle was real when I first switched over too, I was determined to come up with something that didn’t need a banana!!
Sophie
Pancakes are so delicious, this recipe looks phenomenal and simple 🙂
They’re one of my favourites! Basically throw everything in a bowl and stir, you can’t really go wrong, another reason to love them! x
Sophie
OMG they look delicious! Can’t wait to cook them!
Thank you! I hope you love them as much as I do x
Oh man, they look delicious! And the recipe looks super easy.
Sounds perfect for dark mornings.
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Thank you, they’re so easy! That’s one of the reasons I love them so much! x
Sophie
These look amazeballs. I love pancakes but I’ve never tried making my own nor have I ever had any like these – with all the fixings. I love bananas though so I’d certainly add some to the top of these! xxx
That’s one of the things I love about pancakes! You can have the same basic recipe and have loads of different extras and they can taste totally different every time and never get boring. x
These look so unbelievably tasty! I haven’t had pancakes in the longest time and now I have a huge craving for them. I love adding berries on top because they give them such a fresh taste. Lovely photos!
Thank you so much! I love the berries on top, fresh and adds a little sweetness too. Let me know if you decide to give them a go! x
Sophie
I love pancakes and these look amazing – so fluffy!! x.
Thank you!! x
Sophie
Oh those look amazing! Also it makes me really happy that they’re gluten free as I can make them for me and my brother (who has Celiac disease).
Awesome recipe, I’m so glad I stumbled across it
That’s amazing! Glad you found it helpful. I really hope you, and especially your brother, enjoy them! I’d love some feedback x
Sophie
Those pancakes look so good!! I want to try them.
Omg omg omg. These look SO good. Like amazinggggg! I’m such a lazy cook but the fact that these only take around 15 minutes makes them even more appealing to me! Thanks for sharing the recipe, I’m going to be giving it a go asap! x
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Can I just say my favorite topping on my pancake is another layer of pancake? These looked absolutely divine makes me want to make one.
Pancake, almond butter, pancake – repeat 3/4 times, top with berries….perfect formula in my opinion! x
Sophie
just like you – pancakes are 100% my comfort food! me and my boyfriend have got into a fantastic (but dangerous!) habit of having them every single sunday. mmhmmm!
yours look absolutely incredible, i usually cover mine in maple syrup but yours look so damn tasty i might go for berries next time!
katie. xx lacoconoire.com
It’s nice to mix it up every now and again! I recently just managed to break out of the every Sunday habit, it wasn’t easy!! x
Sophie
Wow this looks a-mazing. Berries are my FAVORITE pancake topping – before syrup even! I’d add a little coconut yogurt to this (another pancake fave of mine) and SERIOUS YUM. I’m excited to try!
Thank you! I’ve never had them with yogurt on the top! Might try that next x
Sophie
They look so yum x
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