These vegan sweet potato pancakes are soft, fluffy and full of flavor. Top them off with orange-infused maple syrup for a knock-your-socks off vegan breakfast!
Looking to up your weekend breakfast game? You've come to the right place!
These vegan sweet potato pancakes are where it's at if you're looking for a fun and new delicious way to enjoy pancakes. They're loaded with natural sweetness and warming spices.
These pancakes are also super moist. Vegan pancakes often get accused of being overly dry. (People that say that obviously never had my vegan pancakes.) But sweet potato adds loads of natural moisture. It also acts as a great binder, with sweet potato being one of the best vegan egg substitutes.
To take our sweet potato pancakes to the next level we'll be topping them off with orange infused maple syrup. Orange is an excellent complementary flavor to sweet potatoes.
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Ingredients You'll Need
- Maple syrup.
- Orange juice. This is for your orange infused syrup. Use freshly squeezed juice to give it the best flavor.
- Sweet potato. We'll be using one good-sized fresh sweet potato, baking it up and mashing it.
- Non-dairy milk. Any unsweetened and unflavored variety that's suitable for drinking will work.
- Coconut oil. You can substitute your favorite neutral baking oil here, or leave this out for oil-free pancakes.
- Flour. The recipe calls for all-purpose flour, but spelt and whole wheat pastry flour will both work as substitutes.
- Baking powder.
- Spices. We're using cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Salt.
How They're Made
These pancakes are super easy to make!
Mix your wet and dry ingredients in separate bowls: sweet potato, milk, maple syrup and oil in one bowl; flour, baking powder, spices and salt in a second bowl. Combine the wet and dry ingredients, and stir everything up.
Heat and oil a skillet or griddle, drop dollops of batter, and cook your pancakes until they're fluffy and browned on both sides.
Pour on the orange-infused maple syrup and serve your vegan sweet potato pancakes!
Leftovers & Storage
Leftover sweet potato pancakes will keep in an airtight container or bag in the fridge for 2 to 3 days, or in the freezer for about 2 months.
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Vegan Sweet Potato Pancakes
These vegan sweet potato pancakes are soft, fluffy and full of flavor. Top them off with orange-infused maple syrup for a knock-your-socks off vegan breakfast!
Ingredients
For the Orange Infused Maple Syrup
- 1 cup maple syrup
- ½ cup orange juice preferably fresh squeezed
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
For the Vegan Sweet Potato Pancakes
- 1 medium sweet potato baked and mashed (about 1 cup)
- 2 ¼ cups unflavored almond or soy milk
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil melted
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Instructions
Make the Orange Infused Maple Syrup
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Heat all ingredients in small saucepan and bring to a low boil.
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Lower heat and simmer about ten minutes, or longer to get a slightly thicker syrup. You can prepare your pancakes while the syrup simmers.
Make the Pancakes
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Stir the sweet potato, milk, coconut oil and maple syrup together in a large mixing bowl.
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Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg together in a separate, large mixing bowl.
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Add the liquid ingredients to dry. Stir just until blended.
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Coat a griddle or nonstick skillet with oil and place it over medium heat.
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Pour ⅓ to ½ cup batter onto heated surface. Cook the pancake until browned on each side, about 5 minutes per side, flipping very gently between sides.
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Serve with orange-infused maple syrup.
My my my. Aren't I happy that I found your beautiful bloggity blog. And this recipe looks just delicious. Hello!
Hey, thanks so much! The pancakes did turn out great :) You're actually my first comment as a new blogger (and here I thought it would come from my mom). Totally appreciated.
I made these yesterday, and they were PER-FECT ! Thank you so much for this recipe ! <3
Yay! Glad to hear it! Thanks Leslie!
Hi there!
Would like to know if they freeze well and for how long? Many thanks :)
I haven't frozen these particular pancakes, but most are good for about 3 months in the freezer. I usually layer a few pancakes with parchment paper in between, and then place the whole stack in a freezer bag. Enjoy!!