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Sweet Potato Pancakes Baby Recipe (No Sugar, No Eggs)

Carine By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 11/02/2021 - Last updated on 04/16/2023

5 from 183 votes
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This Sweet Potato Pancake Baby recipe is the best baby-led weaning sweet potato recipe for babies from 6 months of age.

They are soft, nourishing, healthy sweet potato pancakes made with no sugar and no eggs to prevent allergies.

Plus, these are sweet potato oatmeal pancakes made with rolled oats to have plant-based proteins and fiber.

Sweet Potato Baby Pancakes Vegan
Table of contents
  1. How To Prepare Sweet Potato For Babies
  2. Offering Sweet Potatoes To Babies
  3. How To Make Sweet Potato Pancakes For Babies
  4. Storage
  5. How to Offer Pancakes to a Baby
  6. Frequently Asked Questions
  7. More Baby Recipes
  8. Baby Sweet Potato Pancakes

The small pancakes are absolutely amazing for babies from 6 months of age as first healthy finger food.

All you need to make these are only a few ingredients, including mashed sweet potato, so let me tell you more about how to make yours!

How To Prepare Sweet Potato For Babies

Sweet potato is one of the first vegetables you can introduce to babies showing signs of readiness to eat solids.

You can cook sweet potatoes in three ways. First, peel the orange sweet potato and cut it into cubes or sweet potato fries shapes if you want to offer steamed sweet potato to your little one.

Cooking sweet potatoes for baby food:

  • With Boiling Water – Immerse the sweet potato cubes in cold water, bring to boil, and cook for 8 -10 minutes or until fork-tender.
  • Steaming – Bring the peeled, cubed sweet potato in your vegetable steamer basket and steam for 10-12 minutes or until soft.
  • Roasting – Place the sweet potato cubes onto a baking tray covered with parchment paper and roast for 15 minutes at 350°F (180°C) until golden brown and soft.

Offering Sweet Potatoes To Babies

Now you have two options. You can mash the cooked sweet potatoes and make a puree to use in this baby pancake recipe or offer it with a spoon.

Another sweet potato baby-led weaning idea is to offer steamed or roasted sweet potato fries to your baby to chew on.

But here we are making baby sweet potato pancakes, so I blended the boiled cubes of sweet potatoes to make a smooth puree.

Healthy Sweet Potato Baby Pancakes

How To Make Sweet Potato Pancakes For Babies

Now that you made the sweet potato puree time to make the pancakes.

Ingredients

All the ingredients you need for these pancakes are:

  • Homemade Mashed Sweet Potato – read my paragraph above on how to make sweet potato puree for babies, or you can use store-bought baby puree.
  • Milk of Choice – you can use non-dairy milk, baby formula, or your own breastmilk.
  • Rolled Oats or all-purpose flour
  • Vanilla Extract
  • Baking Powder
  • Melted Coconut Oil or light olive oil.

Making The Batter

Rolled Oats Option – Blender Required

If you use the rolled oats option, my favorite because it adds fiber and protein to the baby pancakes, you need a blender.

Simply add all the ingredients into the blender and blend for 1 minute on high speed – speed 10 of Vitamix until the oats turn into flour.

The pancake batter should be smooth and creamy. Set aside 10 minutes in mixing for the fiber to soak the liquid and form a thick batter

How to make Baby Led Weaning Sweet Potato recipe

Flour Option – No Blender

If you want to use all-purpose wheat flour or gluten-free flour blend, don’t use a blender – it will make a gummy pancake!

Instead, stir the liquid ingredients into a mixing bowl and stir in the dry ingredients until a pancake batter forms.

Cooking The Pancakes

Warm a pancake griddle or pan over medium heat. Slightly grease the surface of the pan or griddle with coconut oil or olive oil.

Scoop out a small amount of batter – no more than 1 tablespoon to keep the pancakes handy for baby hands.

Cook for 2-3 minutes or until the sides dry out enough, and you can slide a flat tool under the pancakes without breaking them.

Slide a spatula under the pancake and flip it to the other side. Cook one more minute or until cooked through.

Cool down on a wire rack and repeat with the remaining batter

Storage

These baby sweet potato pancakes store for up to 3-4 days in an airtight container in the fridge.

I personally like to freeze baby pancakes in a ziplock bag for later quick snacks.

They thaw quickly at room temperature – about 1 hour or so and rewarm well in a bread toaster or sandwich press.

Sweet Potato Pancakes Baby Led Weaning

How to Offer Pancakes to a Baby

Baby pancakes are a great baby-led weaning food because babies can hold them and chew on them.

You can offer them plain, lukewarm, or cold as a nutritious snack or meal!

These pancakes contain all the healthy nutrients a baby meal should have:

  • Vitamins from the Vegetables
  • Protein and fiber from oats
  • Calcium from milk

Sweet Potato Oatmeal Pancakes

Frequently Asked Questions

Why Do My Pancakes Break When I Flip Them?

If you used the rolled oat option, the pancakes are more fragile. Cook them a bit longer, or whisk in 1/4 cup of all-purpose flour in your batter to make the pancakes easier to flip.

Note that this happens when the oats haven’t been blended at high speed. So next time, blend for 1 minute on high speed, and the batter should be easier to cook and flip.

Can I Skip The Baking Powder?

Yes, if you don’t mind flat, chewer pancakes for your baby, you can skip it.

Babies don’t need raising agents, but they appreciate the softer, fluffier texture it adds to pancakes.

Another option is to use half a teaspoon of baking soda instead of the baking powder.

Can I Sweeten The Recipe?

If you feel like adding a sweet taste to the pancakes, you can add 2-3 teaspoons of maple syrup or coconut sugar to the batter. Both are healthy unrefined sweeteners for babies.

Can I Make Savory Sweet Potato Pancakes?

Yes, add a pinch of herbs such as dried oregano, paprika, some grated cheese you like, or nutritional yeast.

More Baby Recipes

I have so many baby-led weaning recipes for you to try, below are some of my favorites:

  • Overnights Oats For Baby
  • Baby Teething Crackers
  • Baby Pumpkin Pancakes
  • Baby Cookies
  • Baby-led Weaning Muffins
  • Baby Banana Pancakes
  • Baby Yogurt Melts

Have you made these sweet potato pancakes? Share a comment or review below to let me know how much your baby loves them!

Carine

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Sweet Potato Baby Pancakes Vegan

Baby Sweet Potato Pancakes

An easy Baby Sweet Potato Pancakes recipe 100% allergy-friendly made egg-free, dairy-free, and delicious soft food as a baby-led weaning sweet potato first recipe.
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Prep Time: 5 minutes mins
Cook Time: 5 minutes mins
Total Time: 10 minutes mins
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American, English
Servings: 24 pancakes
Calories: 32.4 kcal
Author: Carine Claudepierre
5 from 183 votes

Ingredients

US Customary – Metric
  • ½ cup + 2 tablespoons Sweet Potato Puree - Homemade or pure puree from baby food pouches/cans.
  • 1 cup Milk of Choice - It can be breastmilk or almond/coconut milk for dairy-free.
  • 1 tablespoon Melted Coconut Oil - or canola oil
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • 1 ½ cup Rolled Oats - see note 1 for white flour.
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder

Instructions

  • Add all the ingredients to the food processor: homemade mashed sweet potato, milk of choice, oil, vanilla, rolled oats, and baking powder.
  • Blend on high speed 1 minute – I used speed 10 on my Vitamix until the rolled oats couldn't be seen and a smooth, consistent pancake batter forms.
  • Set aside 10 minutes in a mixing bowl.
  • Slightly grease a pancake griddle with melted coconut oil.
  • Warm pancake griddle to medium heat and spoon one tablespoon of batter per pancake.
  • Cook 2-3 minutes on one side or until sides are dry, and it's easy to slide a spatula under the pancake without breaking it.
  • Flip and cook on the other side for 1 minute until the pancakes are fluffy and golden.

Storage

  • Store the pancakes in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days or freeze and thaw in the fridge the day before eating.

Notes

Note 1: For all-purpose white flour, use only 1 cup. Don’t use a blender to bring ingredients together, or the pancake will be gummy. Simply stir all the wet ingredients first in a mixing bowl, then stir in the dry ingredients until a smooth pancake batter forms. Cook as per the instructions above.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1pancake | Calories: 32.4kcal | Carbohydrates: 4.9g | Protein: 0.8g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Sodium: 51.4mg | Potassium: 48.2mg | Fiber: 0.7g | Sugar: 0.5g | Vitamin A: 1184.1IU | Vitamin C: 1.2mg | Calcium: 37.1mg | Iron: 0.3mg | Magnesium: 8.8mg | Phosphorus: 31.4mg | Zinc: 0.2mg
Carine Claudepierre & Damien Maurer

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Carine
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, photographer, and published author of a cookbook and founder of The Conscious Plant Kitchen with my husband Damien. Learn more about us.

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Ingredients:

Coconut OilOatsPlant-Based MilkSweet PotatoVanilla

Cooking Method:

Baking

Diet:

Dairy-FreeEgg-FreeGluten-FreeGrain-FreeVeganVegetarian

Meal Types:

BreakfastDessertSnack

Level:

Easy

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6 IngredientsUnder 10 Minutes

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    18 comments
  1. Christa McMains says:
    October 19, 2023 at 2:36 pm

    I’m confused, the directions say to bring all the ingredients together in the food processor, but then the notes say “Don’t use a blender to bring ingredients together, or the pancake will be gummy”. So can you or can’t you?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      October 23, 2023 at 1:33 pm

      It’s not what the recipe says. It says that if you replace the oats by all-purpose flour, then you can’t use a blender or food processor to combine ingredients or you will end up with packed dense pancakes. But if you follow the recipe as per written, use oat then you use the food processor or blender.

      Reply
  2. Sarah says:
    August 3, 2023 at 2:13 pm

    I have made this recipe over a dozen times for my 1 year old who can’t eat eggs! She loves it! I highly recommend. It’s so easy and I use gluten-free flour to save an extra step by not grinding oats. I’ve also added chia seed, flax seed and hemp in the batter!

    Reply
  3. Jen says:
    July 3, 2023 at 4:33 pm

    Can you substitute quick oats for the rolled oats?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      July 6, 2023 at 1:34 pm

      It should work well

      Reply
  4. Lisa says:
    June 8, 2023 at 3:58 am

    Will adding an egg for more protein work?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      June 8, 2023 at 3:26 pm

      Probably, but I don’t eat eggs so I can’t recommend on how this will affect the recipe.

      Reply
  5. K says:
    March 14, 2023 at 9:35 am

    5 stars
    We tried these yesterday, they were a hit with a little peanut butter spread over the top. Shared with my dairy-free group (and sometimes multiple allergens). A top 8 allergen free recipe is always a treasure!

    Reply
  6. kat Kravtsov says:
    January 15, 2023 at 2:21 am

    Do you know whonthede will behave with coconut flour?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      January 15, 2023 at 11:52 am

      Sorry, it won’t work with coconut flour

      Reply
  7. jessy says:
    July 12, 2022 at 7:35 am

    Hi!
    Do you have to cook the oats prior to cooking the pancake?
    Thank you!

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      July 15, 2022 at 5:29 pm

      Not at all, the oat cook in the pancake

      Reply
  8. VA says:
    June 13, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    Hi there, am wondering if there’s a substitute for baking powder. I want to make this recipe for my 11 month old but not comfortable using baking powder. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      June 16, 2022 at 9:57 pm

      Simply skip it, the pancakes won’t raise by babies don’t mind

      Reply
  9. Sophia says:
    April 30, 2022 at 6:25 am

    How about subbing out formula or breast milk for the milk/oat milk called for?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      May 4, 2022 at 9:30 pm

      Yes that should be fine too

      Reply
  10. Lori says:
    March 12, 2022 at 10:32 am

    If using baby oatmeal, should you still use 1.5 cups?

    Reply
    • Carine says:
      March 13, 2022 at 2:47 pm

      Baby oatmeal is made of a combo of oat and other flour and often you need more to achieve the same texture. It’s difficult for me to tell as I didn’t try this option. Maybe strat with 1 cup and add until the batter is thick as a regular pancake batter

      Reply

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