Cranberry Pear Vegan Spelt Pancakes

Need an quick & delicious healthy breakfast? These easy-to-make cranberry pear vegan spelt pancakes only call for 10 ingredients and are full of fall flavour. 

Confession: I’ve always been crap at making pancakes. Pancakes were one of the first thing I ever attempted to make on my own and to say I failed would be an understatement. After I graduated from primary school I had the bright idea to try my hand at baking but I was most definitely not a natural.

Over a one month period I managed to screw up sponge cake so badly I’m still terrified of making cake from scratch. And my attempts at making pancakes ended with a ruined a skillet and a river of tears. Needless to say, I didn’t try making pancakes again for a very long time.

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In fact, I only have two actual pancake recipes on the blog because to this day, I still don’t trust myself around those little circles of breakfast death. Pancake loaves and vegan french toast are much more my speed.

But when I saw that this month’s Recipe Redux theme was all about first cooking recollections, I knew I had to try my hand at making homemade pancakes again. Specifically these cranberry pear vegan spelt pancakes.

Cranberry Pear Vegan Spelt Pancakes

I’ve been making some variation of these vegan spelt pancakes at least once every couple of weeks for a while now and I love them. They’re super easy to throw together – like 1 bowl easy – and call for 10 ingredients apart from the mix ins.

The batter is also very forgiving, so if you screw up, like I tend to do, don’t worry. Oh, and these vegan spelt pancakes were the easiest pancakes I’ve ever had the pleasure of flipping. I usually dread flipping pancakes because I’m the worst with a spatula but I didn’t have to scrap a single one. Huzzah!

If you make these maple chai roasted chickpeas, I’d love to hear what you think. Leave a comment and rate the recipe or take a pic and tag it @ExSloth on Instagram!

More pancake recipes:

• Savoury Cornmeal Pancakes
• Pumpkin Pancake Loaf
• Lentil Pancake Loaf

Cranberry Pear Vegan Spelt Pancakes

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Cook time

20 mins

Total time

30 mins

 

These cranberry pear vegan spelt pancakes are easy to make, only call for 10 ingredients and are bursting with fall flavours.

Author: GiselleR @ ExSloth.com

Recipe type: Breakfast

Cuisine: Vegan

Serves: 8 pancakes

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
• ½ tbsp apple cider vinegar
• ½ tbsp freshly squeeze citrus juice (I used lemon, but orange would work really well)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup spelt flour* (+ more if needed)
• 3 tbsp coconut sugar
• 4 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp lemon or orange zest
• ¼ cup cranberries, fresh or frozen
• 2 tbsp finely diced pears

Optional cranberry pear syrup

• ¼ cup cranberries
• 2 tbsp diced pears
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tsp freshly squeezes lemon or orange juice
• water as needed

Instructions

1. Combine almond milk, apple cider vinegar and lemon juice in a measuring cup and set aside
2. Mix together flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, salt and zest
3. Add the vanilla to the almond milk mixture and mix well
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until just incorporated. Add up to ¼ cup more spelt if the batter is too runny
5. Fold in the cranberries and pears
6. Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat and add a little oil if necessary (this will depend on how non-stick your pan actually is)
7. For each pancake, spoon ¼ to ⅓ cup of batter onto skillet and cook until bubbles form on the surface (about 1 to 2 minutes) then flip and cook for 1 - 2 minutes on the other side
8. Repeat until batter is done, remembering to oil the skillet between pancakes if necessary
9. Serve warm with maple or cranberry pear syrup

For the syrup:

1. Add the fruit, maple syrup and lemon juice to a small saucepan and add just enough water to cover the fruit
2. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, then lower heat to a simmer
3. Continue to heat the mixture until the it begins to thicken and fruit begins to wilt
4. Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly before serving

Notes

*I used ½ white spelt and ½ whole spelt but if you don't have spelt flour you can use 1½ cups white or all purpose flour or 1¼ cups whole wheat flour. See this post for more details on flour substitutions.

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