Recipe - Fluffy Vegan Pancakes

This is my ultimate fail safe recipe for fluffy vegan pancakes!
From your 'fluffy' vegan friend, with love...
Chantal xxx

Fluffy Vegan Pancakes (makes 12 small)

Gather

150g flour (white or half white, half wholemeal)

10g sugar (unrefined caster sugar is good)

25g (2 tbsp) baking powder (seems like a lot but it’s ok!)

1g (1/8^th tsp) salt

230g (250ml) soya milk (can also use oat or almond)

25g (2tbsp) oil (vegetable is good)

Extra oil for cooking (vegetable or rapeseed is good)

Create

Weigh all of the ingredients direct into one large 2l jug or a bowl and whisk into a smooth batter.

Heat a large frying pan or griddle on a medium to high heat and pour in a little oil to grease. (You can check if hot enough by adding a drop of batter and seeing if it sizzles.)

Pour or spoon the batter onto the hot pan/griddle – to the size you want (usually about 2-3 tbsp of batter mix per pancake).

Cook until you see bubbles rise to the surface, the edges start to brown and the batter has set (about 2-3 minutes) they are then ready to flip.

Use a spatula to carefully turn the pancakes over and cook for another 2 minutes or so. You can take a peak underneath to see if they are brown enough and cooked through.

Best served immediately or you can keep warm in the oven, on low, while you cook some more.

Enjoy!

These were served with chocolate sauce and a ‘rainbow’ of fresh fruits! Or why not try fresh apple with caramel sauce, or bananas with nuts and maple syrup.

Frying pans at the ready for pancake day!

Hey lovely people, wanted to share these ideas for a little bit of vegan foodie activism with you and figured this would be the best place for me to post it! (I know... its been a while since I blogged - but there is a good reason... you'll see...)


Chantal xxx



Want to be involved in a little bit of vegan foodie activism?

As you’ll know it’s Shrove Tuesday coming up (17^th) and it would be great if we can blitz the internet with as many vegan pancake recipes as possible!

People and publications will be thinking about it from now, so it would be great if we can all start talking about it across our numerous social media platforms.

If you have pancake recipes on your own blogs and are savvy to this type of thing then please start sharing and tagging!

This coming weekend I’m also going to encourage people to veganise recipes that they find online and to post their own on various sites. If you’d like to do this too here are some sites just to get you started! You add comments below recipes or in some cases add your own recipes fully. Veganise the non-vegan ones!

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3374/perfect-pancakes

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fruit-recipes/vegan-blueberry-pancakes/#KCKFuHV72CwJVu6T.97

(this is vegan – maybe chose the non vegan recipes to comment on?)

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/130487/Pancake-recipe

http://britishfood.about.com/od/pancakeday/r/pancakes.htm

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/american-breakfast-pancakes-141

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/tag-5608/kids-pancake-recipes.aspx

http://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/dairy-free-blueberry-pancakes.html

http://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/recipes/recipe_directory/p/perfect-buttermilkpancakeswithchocolatesauce.html?wtrint=1-Content-_-2-Inspiration-_-3-pancake_day-_-4--_-5-hotspot-_-6-buttermilk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/seasonal-food-and-drink/11402786/When-is-Pancake-Day.html on an article such as this or one of their stored online recipes

If you’re using Twitter then please look out for, and use the trending hashtags nearer the day. Here are some suggestions:

#pancakes #PancakeDay #shrovetuesday #dairyfree #eggfree #crueltyfree #vegan #easy2bvegan etc.

You may or may not be aware that using more than 3 per tweet doesn’t work so well and is offputting to people.

Also please remember to add in pictures of your delicious creations if you have them! Studies show that seeing photographs on a tweet/post significantly enhances its probability to be RT’d.

Of course post on FB, IG and wherever else too!

Although we’ll have missed print deadlines now, if you have the time, you might like to email any newspapers or magazines or other foodie websites with your pancake photos / recipes – perhaps ‘sell’ the idea more by mentioning all of the benefits we associate with eating vegan instead of non vegan.

I’ll also make sure to add more pancake recipes to my new site (details to follow) which will be fully live by then. Next year, I’ll be far more organised for this and will try to get into mainstream media in advance. But for now we can at least hope to help some people see that eggs and dairy just aren’t necessary to make great pancakes!

Please let me know if you have any more ideas that we can share with each other.

Oh and please ask all of your vegan followers to get involved too!

 I’m hungry now… shock…

Love Chantal xx

I'll be adding my American style fluffy ones! ;)