These gluten free pancakes are the best pancakes you’ll ever eat!
Seriously, these gluten free buttermilk pancakes are my absolute fave… and so easy to make on a lazy weekend morning! I need a simple ingredient list in my life so this is my uncomplicated go-to gluten free pancake recipe!
I developed this recipe a few months ago and since then they have been our go-to pancake recipe. Something about the buttermilk pancake that takes you back… Eric claims that these are the best pancakes that he’s ever had, and I can jump on that boat too… sorry mom.
How to make gluten free pancakes?
This recipe is unexplainably easy. As a matter of fact, these unbeatable gluten free pancakes are ready in under 30 minutes. Using minimal ingredients, simply mix the ingredients together in a bowl and cook pancakes on the stovetop.
It doesn’t get much easier than that! Take it from those who have tried this gluten free pancake recipe for themselves.
It was so easy and they were soft, fluffy, and tasty. – Annie
What are some substitutions for buttermilk?
If you don’t have buttermilk on hand, you can always use kefir or blend milk and yogurt together to thin it out… or make your own buttermilk with regular milk and lemon juice. In fact, there are lots of recipes on the internet for making homemade buttermilk.
Dairy free milks are a great alternative to buttermilk – almond and coconut milk are both tasty options for this recipe! Feel free to use whole, 1% or skim milk too.
What is the best gluten free pancake mix?
I love making gluten free pancakes with a brown rice flour based all purpose flour! I keep that on hand since we eat mostly gluten free in this house and it’s reliable for making delicious pancakes in a flash!
We love using King Arthur Measure for Measure flour in this recipe.
This gluten free pancake recipe absorbs the right amount of syrup and pairs wonderfully with fruit and nut butter. Since I can’t get enough peaches right now, that’s what I chose to pile on top of my pancakes this morning. Talk about yum.
Our fam is small so I make this full recipe so that I can freeze the remainder and have for a quick breakfast during the week, and they taste just as amazing reheated! Testament to a good pancake recipe in my book, it freezes well.
Not to mention another perk about these gluten free pancakes is the simple ingredient list. So go grab a stack of these Gluten Free Buttermilk Pancakes and sink your fork into them this weekend.
Looking for other gluten free pancake recipes?
Gluten Free Pumpkin Pancakes
Gluten Free Peach Pancakes
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Gluten Freen Banana Pancakes
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Gluten Free Buttermilk Pancakes
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 20 1x
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The BEST pancakes you’ll ever eat. Light, fluffy, and slightly sweet. Enjoy these on an easy weekend morning and freeze leftovers for quick breakfast on the go during the week.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sifted gluten free all purpose flour (recommend rice based blend)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Sift flour, and measure out 2 cups of sifted flour and place in a large bowl.
- Whisk baking soda, salt and brown sugar into flour.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk, coconut oil and vanilla extract.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir just until combined.
- Ladle 1/4 cup of batter per pancake onto hot lightly greased griddle.
- Cook pancake until it bubbles on one side, and flip.
- Cook until browned on other side.
- To freeze leftover pancakes, line baking sheet with parchment paper and place on sheet individually and place in freezer until slightly frozen and transfer to freeze safe ziploc bag.
- Category: breakfast
- Method: stovetop
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 pancake
- Calories: 77
- Sugar: 2g
- Sodium: 216mg
- Fat: 3g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Carbohydrates: 10g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 28mg
Keywords: gluten free pancakes
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We made these pancakes this morning, texture is GREAT! A little on the salty side for us so I plan to cut the salt in half. Thanks for the recipe!
Diedre
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Think these would be any good without buttermilk? My daughter is allergic to milk so that wouldn’t be an option for us.
Hi Kristine, yes I’ve used dairy free milks in this pancake recipe too. Should still be tasty 🙂
These were delicious. I have been playing with my old recipes trying to make them gluten free, now I can stop that thankless task!!
I did not have enough rice flour so I made up the difference with almond meal and sorghum flour – perfect.
I plan to share this on my blog in the coming weeks.
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Oh excellent, I’m so glad to hear! I’d love to check out your blog when you have it posted.
Hi I made the buttermilk pancakes this a.m. with coconut flour and was delicious, light & fluffy but very crumbly. Does it need tapioca flour or xantham gum perhaps for binding? Any suggestions would be helpful!! I’m really looking for a good recipe and like this version since the ingredients are readily avail in my kitchen. Will try with rice flour or almond flour next. Thank you so much!! 🙂
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I would recommend using a rice based gluten free all purpose flour. or regular all purpose flour if you don’t need to be gluten free.. it will make the fluffiest pancakes. Coconut flour often requires more liquid/eggs for binding– I haven’t tested this recipe with coconut flour though.
These are most definetly the best gluten free pancakes ever!! My whole family loves this recipe, thank you.
You’re welcome! So glad to hear they like them. I just made more GF Pumpkin Pancakes for the site today! Hope you give them a try too.
I loved how nicely they fried up in my skillet. All nice and lightly browned, beautiful even color throughout. I just like a much thicker pancake and so I had to add more gluten free flour (rice blend) and threw in a little chia seed and some cinnamon. The flavor was delicious although I know it’s healthy but I will nix the coconut oil next time. The flavor didn’t go well. Thanks for the recipe, and you at least got me using coconut oil instead of leaving it in the back of my shelf because ‘someday’ I will use it. So thank you for that!
I love hearing this and so glad they worked out for you… and your recipe adjustments delicious!
Stunning! Kids loved the so much they ate them without toppings. I altered the recipe a bit to suit my pantry, replaced buttermilk with 1c natural yoghurt and 1c milk plus a squeeze of lemon, swapped coconut oil for sunflower oil. I also used bin in gf flour mix, tasted awesome hot and nearly as good cold.
I made your pancakes today and they were delicious. I used butter instead of coconut oil (as I ran out the other day) and that substitute worked good. I used Namaste gluten free flour blend. I made my son’s pancakes with blueberries and mine with apples, walnuts, and some cinnamon. Delicious!
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So glad to hear that everyone loved them 🙂
I don’t eat sugar, would it be ok to omit the brown sugar? Or could I replace it wit brown rice syrup? Thanks! 🙂
Made these this morning and they were really thick so I added more milk and honestly they didn’t turn out good at all. So disappointed. Not sure what I did wrong
I made these this morning. I had some buttermilk to use up. It was so easy and they were soft, fluffy, and tasty. My son and I ate, Now I have placed the rest in the freezer. They will freeze and re-heat well I can tell
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These are easily the most delicious pancakes I have ever cooked.! My mum I’m law is GF so made these for Mother’s Day breakfast.
I did adapt recipe slightly as the batter was a bit too thick so I added more milk. I also like my pancakes a bit sweeter so added a tad more sugar. Coconut oil hardened as soon as I added it to the buttermilk mixture so also had to get the electric mixer out to homogenise texture of batter prior to cooking. Texture taste and fluffiness wonderful. Will be making these again and soon!
Thank you Sarah. I seriously love that you were able to share them with your mum on Mother’s Day!! It’s so HOT here in Florida so our coconut milk is like always melted… lol 🙂
These may be the best pancakes I’ve ever had. Perfectly light and tender, perfectly balanced. YUM! Thank you! I did do 2 things differently: when adding the coconut oil, I cut it into the flour (like you do with pie crust) instead of adding to the wet ingredients. The second I added the first teaspoon of oil to the buttermilk it immediately hardened up. (it was liquid to begin with) So I fished it out and went the other direction. 2nd: I added a handful of Enjoy Life dairy/soy/but free dark chocolate chips cuz that’s just the kind of rebel I am 😉 lol Thanks again for a fantastic recipe I’ll be using over and over again!
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Made these this morning – my non-GF boyfriend said “these are probably the best pancakes i’ve had.. like.. ever”. THANK YOU they are amazing! (I did use sunflower oil instead of coconut because that’s all I had, and it worked out perfectly).
Thank you again!
E.
Seriously this just made my morning!! I so excited that you both enjoyed them, oh and thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂
Gluten free! Yeah, they are the best pancakes ever! I just wanted to let you know that I have a website (Simply Creative Recipes) where I showcase recipes I find and I am linking to this post if you don’t mind. Please feel free to submit any recipes to my site if you’d like!
Appreciate the link up Alyssa!!
These pancakes look amazing Kristina! I have tried and been on the search for gluten free pancakes but haven’t found one that can replace the regular kind that my husband loves. Yours looks so fluffy and tasty, I can’t wait to try it 🙂 Thanks for sharing – pinning!
Thanks Kelly!! As long as you use a rice base all purpose flour in this recipe, you won’t know they are gluten free!