This DIY vegan pancake mix consistently gives me super delicious and fluffy pancakes! I always have it on hand in my pantry for easy morning pancakes
Despite my pursuit of the perfect pancake recipe from a couple years back, Eddie kept on wistfully looking towards boxed pancake mixes. He missed the ease of dumping the mix into a bowl and adding milk for super easy and lazy pancakes.
As a result, I always kept a container of this DIY vegan pancake mix on hand for him to turn into pancakes. Now it’s as close to his beloved box mix experience as possible haha.
I realized that a few of you have asked me how I make this mix, and I figured it’d be easier just as one post. Normally, I just double my blueberry pancake recipe and then dump the dry ingredients in a container. This recipe being all in one place with instructions for the wet mix is probably a lot more user-friendly (both for you and Eddie lol).
This is about 1/2 of the pancakes from 1 cup of mix, but at this point, Eddie and I don’t even really measure. We just sort of throw stuff in a bowl and adjust until we like the batter. The runnier the batter, the thinner the pancakes will be. If you like really ultra thick, fluffy pancakes, start with 1/2 cup of the liquid mix and trickle in until you like the consistency.
I topped with a simple strawberry compote or quick jam (like from these cookies) and a lazy chocolate ganache. I melted chocolate chips with some coffee creamer in a bowl over the bubbling strawberry jam, and kept adding coffee creamer until I liked the consistency.
Topped with a bit of icing sugar, this pancake breakfast is our go to meal for weekends or special breakfasts together. Now it’s made much easier with this DIY vegan pancake mix :)
DIY Vegan Pancake Mix
This is based off of my blueberry pancakes recipe and is the dry mix that I always have on hand for easy morning vegan pancakes! Each 1 cup of dry mix with the added listed wet ingredients makes a generous amount of pancakes for two people :)
Ingredients
For the dry mix:
- 3 cups (420 g) all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup (50 g) white granulated sugar
- 2 tsp (10 g) baking powder
- 2 tsp (12 g) baking soda
- 1/2 tsp (2 g) fine kosher salt
For every 1 cup of dry mix, I use the following wet ingredients:
- 1 cup (250 mL) soy milk
- 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla extract
- 1 tsp (apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
Instructions
To Make the Dry Mix
- Sift all the dry ingredients into a large bowl and mix well to combine (nobody wants a clump of baking soda in a pancake), then transfer to an airtight container.
To Make Pancakes with the Mix
- To cook the pancakes, combine listed wet ingredients and let sit for about 1 minute (for milk to "curdle/thicken").
- Add wet mix to 1 cup of dry and whisk until just combined (overmixing leads to dense pancakes).
- On a skillet or griddle over medium heat, butter the pan with a bit of vegan butter (1-2 tsp is fine) then spoon out the batter to your desired pancake size.
- Cook for about 1-2 minutes until you start to see bubbles in the centre and the bottoms are browned, then flip.
- Cook the other side for about 1-2 minutes until nicely golden, then repeat until the remaining batter is gone :)
Brenda says
Question (and to be fair, I could totally just google a recipe, but it never really occurred to me until now so I figure I might as well): Can this be adjusted in some way to make waffles? Is that really just a matter of, again, mixing the batter to what seems like an appropriate consistency and then throwing it in a waffle iron instead of a pan?
I’ve never attempted to make my waffles vegan, but it might be nice to at least have a solid starting point in case I want to make breakfast for my brother sometime.
Also, instant waffle pro-tip (which probably wouldn’t so much work for pancakes): You can totally make a full batch, then just freeze whatever you don’t eat (especially if you undercook them a touch), and then heat/finish cooking them in a toaster or toaster oven for effectively instant waffles that are a million times better than a storebought toaster waffle.
Lisa Le says
Hmmm to be fair, a lot of people have asked me this in the past and I’ve never ventured to try and make it in the waffle maker. I imagine it would work great actually! And you can actually totally do the same with pancakes, cook em up, and then freeze the pancakes and you can toast or microwave them the next time you want a quick stack of flapjacks :D
Brenda says
I feel like most people prefer waffles or pancakes, so if one is a pancake person, why make waffles? Being a waffle person, I don’t think I’ve ever made a pancake in my life.
I do really want waffles now, though…
Dee says
The food is sooo good. Thanks
Daniel Armstrong says
If anyone is curious, you can in fact misread the directions, be misled by your partner and make a successful sextuple batch. 8/5 would make again. Makes 60+
Hannah says
This is the best recipe for pancakes! I suck at pancakes, it’s one of those things I’ve never ever managed to do right. Until now. SO versatile, so easy, so good! I didn’t even make it correctly the first time and they were absolutely perfect. We love you Lisa.
Lisa Le says
I’m so happy you love them!!
Miss Smith says
Can’t wait to try the recipe! Do you know how long the mix could be stored in an airtight container? Does having all the dry ingredients mixed together make it expire quicker? I had a bad flour mite experience and am now super cautious whenever flour is involved.
Lisa Le says
Hm, I’m not really sure. Since it’s an airtight container, you are probably not going to have flour mites unless your original flour was contaminated. I keep mine for months at a time, don’t really notice any difference. The only thing that might expire is the baking powder might not be as effective several months down the road. But so long as you aren’t mixing old batches of the pancake mix with new batches, and you eat pancakes fairly regularly, you should be fine :)
Jacqueline says
I cannot have ACV, can it be left out or something substituted in its place?
Lisa Le says
Any other vinegar would work then. White vinegar would work well :)
FlowerAura says
Nice post!
I will try this DIY vegan pancake recipe.
Thanks for sharing the delicious recipe.
Phill says
Can other plant based milks be used? I prefer Almond milk and would like to use it.
Lisa Le says
Yep! Any plant milk should work just fine :)