These are the perfect vegan pancakes! With simple ingredients, you can make a tall stack of pancakes that are easy to make, super fluffy, and perfectly sweet.

A tall stack of many fluffy vegan pancakes on a white plate. Fresh fruit are on top of the pancakes and scattered around beside the pancakes. — A tall stack of vegan pancakes with fresh fruit.

Why You’ll Love this Vegan Pancake Recipe

Who doesn’t love a tall stack of pancakes for breakfast?

Easy to mix up in one bowl
Light, soft, fluffy, and no heavy taste of soy
Freezes super well for pancakes anytime
Naturally dairy free, egg free, and nut free!

In the mood for more delicious vegan breakfast ideas? Make sure to check out my scrambled tofu, perfect vegan cinnamon rolls, or apple pie overnight oats!

Ingredients

Here is a quick rundown of the ingredients needed for this recipe. For the full list, check out the recipe box below!

All Purpose Flour: You don’t need anything fancy here, just a good all purpose flour.
Plant-Based Milk: I recommend using soy milk that is unflavored and unsweetened for the best results. Almond milk, oat milk, and coconut milk all taste great as well.
Plant-Based Cream: Adding a bit of cream helps to make these pancakes extra delicious. If you don’t have a good vegan cream, you can swap this with more plant milk.
Lemon Juice: This helps to make the soy milk into a vegan buttermilk resulting in a softer and more tender pancake.
Sugar: A little bit of sugar to make it sweet! Make sure to use organic sugar or beet sugar if you are in the US to keep it vegan. You can also use coconut sugar, just know that the coconut sugar will make these pancakes slightly darker.
Vegetable Oil: You need both a little bit of oil in the pancakes to make them soft, and a bit of spray oil to cook them in the pan. Use a neutral flavored oil like canola oil or refined coconut oil. You can swap this for melted butter if you like, however, I find that the oil makes a more consistent result.
Baking Powder, Baking Soda, + Salt: This helps flavor and to make extra tall pancakes.
Vanilla extract: I love adding a splash of this for extra flavor!

Variations & Favorite Toppings

Can’t go wrong with the classic maple syrup and vegan butter combination, especially with fresh fruit.
Add a half cup of chocolate chips, blueberries, or other fresh fruit to the batter before cooking.
Add a spoonful of peanut butter, almond butter, or sun butter to the batter before cooking.
Sprinkle some coconut flakes into the batter and top with coconut whipped cream.
One of my favorite ways to enjoy pancakes is topped with jam! Wild blueberries especially are my favorite variation.

Instructions

Make sure to check out the recipe card below for the full recipe and ingredient list.

First up, making the batter! Simply whisk together the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Then, pour the wet ingredients into the middle and gently whisk together until the batter is just combined. If it is a little lumpy, don’t worry! You actually don’t want totally smooth batter. Let the batter rest while the pan heats up.

A glass bowl is filled with the sifted dry ingredients and a glass measuring cup with a whisk in it is filled with the mixed wet ingredients. — Mixing the wet and dry ingredients separately helps to mix the ingredients fully.

A glass bowl with a blue whisk is filled with the finished pancake batter. — The finished pancake batter shouldn’t be over-mixed and will be really thick.

Tip! Leave the batter a little lumpy. Over-mixed pancakes will end up flatter. For fluffy pancakes, you just want to barely mix it with a few small lumps remaining. The batter consistency should be quite thick.

Next up, prepping the pan. You can make these in a large skillet, a flat bottomed pan on the stove, or on top of a hot griddle. Spray a little bit of oil to prevent any sticking.

If you’re using a griddle, heat it to 400F/205C or a medium-high heat on the stovetop.

Three pancakes in a white fry pan. One pancake is lifted into the air on a white spatula so you can see how many bubbles have popped and that it is time to turn the pancakes. — Showing when to flip the pancakes – the bubbles will have mostly popped and the top of the pancake will look slightly matte.

Now it’s time to make the pancakes! Using a ¼ to a ⅓ cup of pancake batter, pour them onto the prepared pan.

Cook the pancakes until the little bubbles form and start popping. If you gently lift a pancake up, it should be a golden brown on the bottom. Depending on how thick you made the pancakes, they can take up to 5 minutes to cook on the first side.

Tip! If you have pancakes that are too dark on the outside but raw in the middle, the heat is too low. Turn it up!

Flip the pancakes over and cook for another few minutes on the other side.

And that’s it! Top the pancakes with your favorite toppings and enjoy.

A tall stack of many vegan pancakes have had a bit taken out of them. A small white jar of syrup is being poured over top the pancakes. — Stack of pancakes with syrup being poured over top.

Pancake Tips and Tricks

For crispy edges on pancakes, add a little bit of extra oil to the pan.
Use a paper towel to wipe out the hot pan in between each round of pancakes.

How to Store

One of the best parts about making pancakes is that you can easily make a double batch and save leftovers for a quick breakfast later.

Fridge: Allow the pancakes to fully cool. Store leftover pancakes in an airtight container for up to 5 days in the fridge.

Freezer: Allow the pancakes to fully cool. Place any leftovers in a freezer safe container or bag. Store them with pieces of parchment paper in between each pancake so they don’t stick together after freezing. These will keep for up to 3 months.

To reheat: You can pop these pancakes on a plate and microwave for 30 second intervals. Or, place them on a baking tray in the oven or toaster oven. Heat until warmed through.

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