These delicious and fluffy coconut pancakes taste like vanilla cake, yet they're gluten-free, dairy-free, and low in added sugar.
My kids love these pancakes and often refer to them as 'vanilla cake pancakes'.
These are as 'coconutty' as you can get, as they're made with coconut flour, grated coconut, coconut milk, and coconut sugar.
You can even fry them in coconut oil!
This is a great pancake recipe for peeps with allergies, and they taste delicious!
Recipe notes
When you mix the batter, you may find it rather thick, but this is normal! I've tried thinning it out, and the result isn't as tasty, so try to resist the urge to do the same.
Vanilla Coconut Pancakes
Ingredients
- ¾ cup brown rice flour
- 2 Tablespoons coconut flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 2 teaspoons coconut sugar
- 2 Tablespoons grated coconut
- 1 cup coconut milk plus 1-2 Tbsp more, if needed
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Stir the dry ingredients together (flours, baking powder, salt, sugar, coconut) in a medium bowl.
- Whisk the wet ingredients (milk, eggs, vanilla) in a separate small bowl.
- Mix the dry and wet ingredients together until combined.
- Begin heating a non-stick skillet over medium heat.
- Let the batter sit a minute or two. If it looks really thick add another tablespoon of milk (the batter should be thick though).
- Add some coconut oil or butter to the skillet.
- Once you see tiny bubbles form in the pan, dollop the batter onto the skillet (I like to use a 1/4 cup measurement for this).
- Let the cakes cook until the sides begin to look cooked and you can get a spatula under it (1-2 minutes).
- Flip and cook the other side (30-60 seconds).
- Repeat above steps with the remaining batter.
Nutrition
If you have a chance to try this recipe, please leave a star rating and a comment below letting me know how you liked it!
Liz
Lauren, do you use canned coconut milk for this or the shelf-stable kind in a carton?
Jd
They look great. Can I swap brown rice with white rice flour?
Lauren
That should work fine!
Sammi
Girl, these are the bomb.com!! My kids and I loved them!!! Thanks for always providing such amazingly healthy recipes!
Lauren
Oh my gosh, you are the sweetest girl ever, thank you for trying and sharing them Sammi! xo
Tammy
These are heaven in a pancake!!! You are a culinary angel!