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
Did you make this recipe? Be sure to leave a comment and rating below!
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.
These pancakes are the best! I make these for my toddler but use monk fruit sweetener instead of sugar and I add a little bit of unflavored protein powder to make them more healthy and hearty.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing JB!
Excellent pancakes. I doubled the recipe and used unsweetened vanilla almond milk. I used about 2 cups of almond milk but kept the vanilla at 1 teaspoon. Pancakes were fluffy and delicious. Thanks.
Wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing.
Very delicious!!! I was surprised in a positive way! The changes I made were almond milk, a little bit less of cinnamon and added a little bit of semi sweet chocolate chips. I prefer honey than syrup! I’m not vegan and I loved this recipe! I’ll do it again! Thank you
Awesome, thanks so much for the great review!
Delicious! I made these this morning on a whim to use up an overripe banana… they were so yummy! I cut the recipe in half to make two large pancakes and used vegetable/canola oil instead of coconut oil. Cooked super fast and with a little bit of chocolate chips, perfection! Would recommend as an quick and simple, vegan pancake 🙂
Thanks for the great review Raven!
Hi! Would it be possible to make the batter ahead of time and leave in the fridge for a night? Thanks 🙂
Hi Ella, I don’t generally find that to be a good idea especially with this batter since the bananas would oxidize. It’s a very quick batter to whip up so it’s best done right when you need it.
We aren’t vegan, and these are my husbands favorite pancakes of all time. Have to make them at least twice a month.
That’s so awesome to hear Bev, thanks so much for posting! 🙂
Flavor was pretty good but the pancakes came out super dense and tasted slightly flour-y. Any suggestions are welcome 🙂
Hi Haley, I highly recommend either weighing your flour or using the ‘spoon and level’ technique, as it just sounds like a bit too much flour was the issue. 🙂
The best pancakes ever! I use spelt flour and make them nice and thick and they come out so fluffy and perfect
Awesome! Thanks for sharing Mason!
This is my favorite banana pancake recipe!
Thanks Marley!
Delicious. I used slightly less sugar and slightly more banana. Thanks.
Omg Yum!
Thankyou for this recipe.
I used oat milk and sliced banana and put it on top when they were trying.
I love these and your recipes 😄
Soy Ecuatoriana mi hijo es alérgico a muchos alimentos y esta receta es perfecta le encantan pudo comer feliz sus pancakes
Gracias!
I have made these pancakes more times than I can count. They are my favorite EVER. I usually leave out the added sugar because they ripe bananas are so sweet. My husband, toddler, and I can’t get enough of these. Thanks so much!
That’s wonderful! Thanks so much Emily!
Easy, healthy and delicious! My toddler loved them, and so did I. Our new go-to! Thanks!
Wonderful! Thanks so much Liz!
I like to use 2 bananas and add 1/2 tsp nutmeg.
Is there any possible substitute for the coconut oil? Such as olive oil or vegetable oil?
Yes you could use any oil. 🙂
These Pancakes are really the best!!! They’re fluffy and healthy sweet. I definitely will do them again because I can’t stop eating them!
Thanks so much Celine!
These are so yummy! I added 1 tbsp less sugar cause my bananas were very ripe. They turned out great, I’ll definitely make it again!
Awesome! So glad you enjoyed them Angela!