Almond Milk Pancakes
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These almond milk pancakes are so thick, fluffy and soft – you won’t believe that they’re dairy-free! Made with just 8 ingredients, you can quickly whip up a big stack of these pancakes for your weekend brunch.
I will never say no to a stack of pancakes! You’ll find me most weekends making a big batch of these almond milk pancakes or my dairy free waffles.
You can serve these dairy-free pancakes as they are, or you can add chocolate chips, chocolate hazelnut spread, or fresh fruit! I also love topping my pancakes with coconut whipped cream.
Featured Reader Review
“Perfect recipe. Pancakes were tasty and fluffy. I have been drinking almond milk for years and other recipes just were not right. This recipe works great to add fruit or walnuts also.”
Danny
Homemade pancakes just taste so much better than a pancake mix! I love making extra for meal prep so I can enjoy pancakes during the week too. This recipe makes perfectly soft, fluffy, and thick pancakes and this is sure to become your go-to recipe.
Ingredients Needed
- Almond Milk: I prefer using unsweetened almond milk, but you could also use vanilla almond milk.
- Flour: I recommend using all purpose flour, but I’ve also made these with white whole wheat flour or whole wheat flour (you can replace just half of the all purpose flour or all of it, but the texture will be different!). In my testing, I found that all purpose flour gives the pancakes the fluffiest, lightest texture that we all look for with classic buttermilk pancakes.
- Butter: to keep these pancakes dairy free, make sure to use dairy-free butter. You can also swap out the butter for oil if you don’t have dairy free butter.
How To Make These Pancakes
Add all your wet ingredients to a bowl or large cup!
Whisk the wet ingredients to combine.
Combine wet ingredients with dry ingredients.
Cook the pancakes!
Recipe Developer Tips
- Measure your flour properly – it is so easy to over measure flour if you aren’t measuring it properly! If you add too much flour, it can lead to dry and tough pancakes. I recommend weighing your flour with a kitchen scale or using the scoop and level method.
- Heating up the pan – Cooking pancakes at the right heat is very important. Wait until the griddle or nonstick pan is hot before adding the pancake batter!
- Variations – Switch up the pancakes by adding 1 cup of semisweet vegan chocolate chips to make chocolate chip pancakes, or 1 cup of blueberries to make blueberry pancakes!
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Almond Milk Pancakes
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Ingredients
- 1½ cup (354 ml) almond milk
- 3 Tablespoons melted vegan butter or oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1¾ cup + 3 Tablespoons (242 g) all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 Tablespoons (36 g) granulated sugar
- 2 Tablespoons baking powder
Instructions
- In a small bowl or large measuring cup, whisk together the almond milk, melted vegan butter (or oil), vanilla extract and egg until smooth. Set aside.
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, salt, sugar and baking powder.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix until just combined – you don’t want to over-mix! It’s fine if there are a few small lumps though.
- Heat a griddle or nonstick pan over medium-low heat. If you’re using a pan, add some butter to grease the pan or you can use a cooking spray.
- Test the pan or griddle to make sure it is hot enough by adding a drop of water – if it sizzles then it is ready! Scoop out ¼ cup of pancake batter and pour onto the pan/griddle.
- Once bubbles start to form on the top of the pancake, use a spatula to flip it over and cook on the other side for 1-2 minutes. The pancakes should be golden brown. Remove from the pan and serve with your favorite toppings!
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Notes
The calorie information provided for this recipe is an estimate. The accuracy of the calories listed is not guaranteed.
Yummy , I used cow butter cause I can. Mine turned out to be soo fluffy its almost like a cross between an english muffin scone and pancake. Im going to cut them in half and add butter jam to go with our tea.
Good recipe
Thank you Mim! So glad you liked them!
Ok, so we are traveling in a travel trailer and I don’t really keep items on hand for food like this but I happened to have everything! I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk and wow!!! Flavor, light, fluffy goodness! Definitely would make again! Not hard even with limited space!
How fun! So glad this recipe worked for you given your limitations – thank you for your review!
These are the best pancakes I have ever made. I spread some honey cinnamon butter on them. Heaven
Linda
So happy you enjoyed these, thanks Linda!
Amazing recipe they’re so fluffy and soft and my kids loved the. I pit chocolate chips as well soooo gooood lol.
I used real butter. Sorry!! But otherwise followed your recipe exactly. This made very hearty thick pancakes. There were very good. The vanilla gave them good flavor. They lacked the tang of buttermilk and they were thicker than most pancakes I’ve made which meant they cooked a little more slowly. But otherwise they were a great addition to the breakfast routine.
Thanks Bryan!
Hands downs the best recipe I have been able to find for fluffy good tasting pancakes! So happy I came across this recipe.
Thank you Alexis!
what should the temperature be ?
Your griddle or pan should be heat over medium low heat!
These are so good! It was hard to eat only 2 at a time!
Hi Jan! Thank you so much for your kind words! I’m thrilled that you enjoyed the recipe 🤗
Can i make the mix in advance?
Yes! I wouldn’t recommend storing batter in the refrigerator for more than 2 days though
Such a great recipe. Directions were easy to follow. We added peanut butter chips to the last couple and that was good. Also tried lemon curd, which was not as tasty as we had envisioned. Will definitely make this again. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Hi Kody! So glad you enjoyed these pancakes 🤗
Thick fluffy pancakes. Made this for the family and they loved it. Our first time trying almond milk pancakes and it did not disappoint. I did add a splash more almond milk to thin out the recipe. Everyone loved them!
Yay! I’m so happy you and your family loved the recipe! 🙂
Perfect recipe. Pancakes were tasty and fluffy. I have been drinking almond milk for years and other recipes just were not right. This recipe works great to add fruit or walnuts also.
I’m so happy to hear that you loved them Danny! Thanks for taking the time to come back and leave a review!
easy, fluffy, and delicious. added chocolate chips to ours and they were perfect.
I’m so glad to hear that Gee, thanks for the review!