Vegan Banana Bread Pancakes with Chocolate Chunks Recipe + Video (2024)

FAQs

Why are my vegan pancakes gooey? ›

Overmixing the batter is probably the number one reason why your vegan pancakes are gummy. When it comes to pancakes, you want the batter to be slightly lumpy. If you mix the batter too much, you knock all of the air bubbles out and your pancakes won't rise very well, resulting in a gummy texture.

If the heat is too high the pancakes will be cooked on the outside but be mushy and undercooked inside.

Overmixing can result in overdeveloped gluten, making the pancakes challenging and gummy. Here are a few tips to achieve the perfect mixing technique: Use a whisk or fork to mix the wet and dry ingredients gently. Avoid using an electric mixer or blender, as these can overmix the batter.

Melted butter rounds out the texture of pancakes by adding just the right amount of fat to keep the stacks rich and moist. No need to go crazy with it, though; a little goes a long way. Just add a tablespoon of melted butter per cup of pancake mix for super tasty pancakes.

Pancakes that are gooey in the middle mean that they were not cooked long enough, flipped over too soon, or the heat source was too low. This often happens with the first batch.

Eggs are a crucial ingredient. They provide the cakes with the structure to hold light bubbles. Eggs also give the batter additional, richer flavor from the yolk fat. If you add too many eggs, you'll have “pancakes” that look more like custard or crepes.

As it turned out, the overripe bananas are way better for pancakes. I also wanted to try a pancake technique that a friend of mine swears by. You separate the egg and blend the yolk and the white into the batter at different times. It is supposed to make the pancakes lighter.

Baking powder is most often used in pancakes because regular pancake batter doesn't contain acid that would activate baking soda. However, this fluffy pancake recipe uses both baking powder and baking soda. The baking soda is activated with the acid in the buttermilk.

Top tips for fluffy pancakes

Don't be tempted to add more than the recipe suggests, as too much baking powder will make pancakes taste soapy. Alternatively, you could use self-raising flour, which will add to the amount of raising agent in the recipe and potentially make your pancakes fluffier.

What is Queen Elizabeth's pancake recipe? ›

Beat two eggs with 4 tablespoons of sugar and about one teacup (or 3/4 of a cup) of milk. Add 4 teacups of flour and mix in another teacup of milk "as required" Mix in 3 teaspoons of cream of tartar and 2 tablespoons of bicarbonate soda (baking soda) Fold in 2 tablespoons of melted butter.

However, it's not as tasty as you think, as they add small objects (after they've been thoroughly cleaned of course) such as buttons, rings, and coins. Each object has a special meaning, for example, if you find a shiny coin in your pancake, you're deemed very lucky and will end up rich!

Milk helps make pancakes fluffier than water. Since milk is thicker than water, it creates a thicker batter. Further, if you use whole milk or low fat milk, the fat content helps yield tender, fluffy results.

They are “mushy” because they were undercooked. They are undercooked because the heat was too high and the surface cooked before the inside making them look cooked but “mushy”. To fix those, you could put them in a medium hot oven or toaster oven for a few minutes.

8) Let pancakes cool on a rack, instead of in a stack.

Spacing them out on a rack, rather than piled on top of each other in a classic stack, provides just enough air circulation to prevent them from sticking together and becoming gummy.

Adding warm milk will help make your batter more non-stick, but only if you melt a little butter in the milk as you warm it. And the key word is WARM, make sure you don't boil the milk, we're not trying to cook our batter in the bowl!

There's too much sugar in the mix

Higher sugar content pancakes are more likely to stick to the pan than lower sugar pancakes. If your mix continually sticks to the pan, try reducing the sugar content by about 25% – you will likely not notice the change in taste, but you will probably have a greater success rate.