3-Ingredient Baby Banana Pancakes (Egg-free, Dairy-free)
These 3-ingredient Baby Banana Pancakes are perfect for baby-led weaning or introducing solid food to babies.
Bonus, these are vegan pancakes for babies too, which means they are also egg-free and dairy-free.
Are you ready to introduce solids to your infants but don’t know where to start?
These vegan baby banana pancakes are perfect for it, easy to make in 10 minutes, no food processor or fancy tool is needed.
It is a quick and easy recipe for busy mums who want to feed their babies healthy food with no fuss.
What Are Baby Pancakes?
Baby pancakes are the first baby food to use in the baby-led weaning feeding approach.
They are soft, hand-sized eggless banana pancakes easy to hold with small hands and made of 3 simple ingredients, safe for infants 6 months old and older or ready to eat solid foods.
A baby-led weaning banana pancake recipe is made of whole food to bring nutrients to your infant.
It’s naturally:
- Sugar-free – doesn’t contain added sugar.
- Baking powder-free – baking powder can upset infants under 1-year-old, and it’s unnecessary for babies.
- Allergy-friendly – nut-free, dairy-free, egg-free options.
The purpose of baby pancakes is to develop baby sensory skills: taste, touch, and smell. It means that banana pancakes for babies don’t get fluffy. Their purpose is to add nutrient, infant-safe baby-led weaning experience.
How To Make Baby Banana Pancakes
All you need to make baby banana pancakes are 3 wholesome ingredients that we all have at home.
Ingredients
- Banana – I am using small, slightly ripe bananas. The recipe works with my baby pumpkin puree for a veggie pancake recipe.
- Milk of choice – can use breastmilk or calcium-fortified soy milk or almond milk.
- Flour– or white whole wheat flour.
Making The Baby Pancake Batter
Mash the banana on a chopping board or plate. Next, combine banana and almond milk. Stir in all-purpose flour until a thick pancake batter forms.
It’s ok to have lumps of bananas in the pancakes. It adds an extra soft texture that babies love.
Cooking Baby Banana Pancakes
Warm a pancake griddle under medium heat and lightly oil its surface with coconut oil.
Then, scoop one tablespoon of baby banana pancake batter and drop it onto the hot pan. Cook the pancakes until the sides start to dry out which takes about 1 to 2 minutes.
When bubbles start forming, flip the pancakes to the other side and keep cooking until golden brown.
Cool down on a plate or cooling rack for 10 minutes before offering these weaning pancakes to infants.
Serving Baby Pancakes To Infants
These are quick and easy baby pancakes to set up a healthy baby finger food breakfast plate. You can add some other food around your baby plate-like fresh soft fruits or non-dairy yogurt.
They are baby and toddler-friendly.
It’s not recommended to offer sweeteners to babies and infants, even safe sweeteners like maple syrup.
The best-tasting experience is to offer no sugar for up to 1 year old to let the kids learn the real flavor of whole foods.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I Make Sweet Potato Pancakes With This Recipe?
Sure, you can replace the mashed banana with mashed sweet potato to create different baby-led weaning pancake flavors. Other options are mashed pumpkin or homemade applesauce.
Can I Make These Baby Pancakes Fluffy?
These are baby pancakes made without raising agents. That’s why their texture is soft, flat and they don’t fluff like regular breakfast pancakes.
In fact, baking powder or baking soda is not safe for babies under 1 year old, so this recipe doesn’t use them.
However, if you want to use this recipe for older kids from 1 year old, you can add 1 teaspoon of baking powder into the batter to make fluffy pancakes.
Toddlers also love these pancakes with a hint of vanilla, add 1/2 teaspoon into the batter, and serve with peanut butter and chia seed jam. It makes a healthy vegan kid breakfast for busy mornings.
Can I make them gluten-free?
Yes, you can use all-purpose gluten-free flour or buckwheat flour in this recipe to make gluten-free baby banana pancakes.
However, this recipe is egg-free and consequently doesn’t work with coconut flour or almond flour.
Storage Instructions
These baby banana pancakes can be stored for up to 3 days in a sealed box in the refrigerator.
You can also freeze these baby pancakes in zip-lock bags or any airtight container. Then, thaw the baby pancakes a few hours before eating at room temperature.
More Healthy Recipes For Kids
Below I listed some other healthy and quick recipes to make for your little ones:
Made these baby banana pancakes? If your baby loves these pancakes, share a review or comment below, I love to hear your feedback on my recipes.
Baby Banana Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons Plant-based Milk of choice - or breast milk
- 3 tablespoons All-Purpose Flour - or white whole wheat flour
- 1 small Banana - riped, peeled
Instructions
- Peel, mash the ripe banana on a plate until smooth. It's ok if bits of bananas show.
- Stir the milk and mashed banana, then stir in flour.
- Whisk everything together and set aside 5 minutes while the pancake griddle warms up.
- Lightly grease the pancake griddle with coconut oil.
- Pour 1 tablespoon of batter per pancake and cook for 1-2 minutes or until the sides start to dry out.
- Flip over and cook for an extra 30 sec-1 minute.
Storage
- Store the baby banana pancakes in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days or freeze in ziplock bags and thaw at room temperature 1 hour before serving.
Hi,
Thank you for the recipe. I would like to ask you if I can use formula milk instead?
Thanks
I am pretty sure it will work well
Awesome recipe… add a pinch of cinnamon and perfection… super easy and my 1 year old loves them… next might trying mixing in some chia seeds
Really easy, and so good!
I love this recipe! Its my go-to pancake recipe now for not just my baby but for myself! I’ve made it like 5x now and I make it GF with oat flour and add some flax and chia.
thank you for this recipe. my 9 month old has an egg allergy and these pancakes were perfect, even added some chia seeds.
That’s amazing! Thanks
Hi could I use whole milk with these? I’m happy I found an eggless recipe!
It should work but I didn’t try that so I can’t recommend.
I am spoon feeding and BLW my 6 1/2 month old. I like introducing more BLW recipes in the morning and tried the this recipe today. It was really easy to follow and simple to cook. I liked how they tasted but baby is picky when it comes to certain textures when it comes to holding food. I will be keeping this recipe and introduce it once a week until.
You don’t know how much this means to me to find this recipe it came out perfect for my 8 month old who has allergy to milk eggs and gluten thank you so much I could cry x
Thank you so much!
Could I use baby cereal to replace the flour?
I recommend the multigrain it is more of a substitute to flour. I feel like rather then oatmeal or rice cereal.
Probably, I didn’t try this option sorry
I just made these and am curious what should the text be like? I cooked them about 1.5-2 mins a side and they were almost kind of doughy. Is that correct? I assume because of the banana maybe?
Yes, it’s a baby food recipe so it’s very soft and melt in the mouth to avoid chocking.
I’ve made with oat flour and it turned out absolutely delicious, even my husband loved them and did even use syrup, he was a sweet tooth so that’s saying something.
My question now is can I substitute the banana for sweet potatoes?
I am sure it will work well yes!
Great and easy recipe! Can I make with blueberries instead for banana?
I don’t think you can skip the mashed banana here, they act as an egg and gather the flour together. Sweet potato puree or pumpkin puree would work better or add the blueberries into the banana pancake batter!
Can I use formula instead of the milk?
Sure
They don’t seem to cook very well in the inside, is that normal? I tried cooking longer and the outside browns more but the inside is still mushy.
They are soft and chewy but not wet. If they are it means your ratio liquid to solid is too high, this easily happens if your bananas are slightly bigger. Just add a bit more flour in the mix and they should get better.
Hi, can I use oat flour?
I don’t think they will come together with same amount, try my 3 ingredient oat pancakes recipe instead.
Could I make these with prepared formula instead of plant based milk or breast milk and still freeze them?
Probably yes
Hi. This is the first recipe I’ve come across without baking powder so eager to try it. Please confirm use of all purpose flour/coconut flour as the the list of ingredients and recipe differ.
Thanks
Harsha
This recipe use all purpose flour not coconut flour
I have tried the recipe with chikpeas flower. And the pancakes are delicous. Thank for sharing the recipes with us.
Can I used baking flour?
Any wheat flour works yes