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These dairy-free, gluten-free oat flour pancakes are a delicious alternative to traditional pancakes. This is such a healthy, frugal breakfast recipe!
Pancakes happen just about every weekend in my house.
Depending on the mood of the person who’s making them, they take many different forms. We make them with wheat flour, white flour, gluten-free flour, or a combination.
These oat flour pancakes are one of my favorite versions. Oats are a nutritious option for breakfast, so it’s natural to enjoy them in pancake form on the weekends. The flavor is delicious, and it’s great to have another way to incorporate oats into my family’s diet.
Step By Step Instructions to Make These Oat Flour Pancakes
Step One: Prepare the Oats
Place 2 cups of rolled oats in a high-powered blender or food processor. Process on high for 20 to 30 seconds, or until you have 2 cups of fine oat flour. (Skip this step if you’re using pre-packaged oat flour.)
Step Two: Prepare the Dry Ingredients
In a medium bowl, whisk together the oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
Step Three: Prepare the Wet Ingredients & Combine with Dry Ingredients
In a large bowl, mix the eggs, coconut milk, coconut oil, and vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
Step Four: Cook the Oat Flour Pancakes
Heat a griddle pan over medium high heat. Lower the heat to medium low, then pour circles of batter onto the griddle. Use about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake to get 12 pancakes. Cook for one to two minutes on each side. Flip when the surface of the pancakes are dotted with small bubbles. Serve with fruit and maple syrup.
Tips and Frequently Asked Questions
You can buy pre-packaged oat flour, or you can make your own by grinding oats in a high powered blender. Blend old fashioned oats for about 20 to 30 seconds to get a fairly smooth flour.
It takes about a cup of rolled oats to make a cup of oat flour. This quantity of oats from Costco costs $.10. This is actually more affordable than any other flour I’ve used to make pancakes.
A cup of pre-packaged Bob’s Red Mill oat flour costs about $.76 per cup. While it’s much more frugal to grind your own oat flour, you may want to grab a bag of already ground flour to save time in the morning when you’re making these oat flour pancakes.
It’s best to cook these pancakes immediately after making the pancake batter. If you leave it sitting for a while (or refrigerate overnight), the batter will thicken due to the oats. If this happens, just add an additional ¼ cup of non-dairy milk to the thickened batter. This should return it to a pourable consistency to make the pancakes.
If the oat flavor is too strong for your family in these oat flour pancakes, try substituting gluten-free flour or white whole wheat flour for up to half the oat flour in this recipe.
You can also use oat milk, almond milk, or any other type of milk in these pancakes.
Chocolate chips or fresh berries (blueberries, strawberries, or raspberries) can be added for an extra special flavor.
I like to cook all the pancakes, and then store the leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for a few days. They can be heated briefly in the microwave or toaster oven before serving.
Try my oat flour waffles, oat flour cookies, chocolate oat pudding, steel cut oats cookies, and oat flour banana bread for other sneaky oatmeal recipes your family will love.
Oat Flour Pancakes
Ingredients
- 2 cups oat flour (2 cup rolled oats)
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups coconut milk
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place 2 cups of rolled oats in a high-powered blender or food processor. Process until you have 2 cups of fine oat flour. (Skip this step if you’re using pre-packaged oat flour.)
- In a medium bowl, stir together the oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
- In a large bowl, mix the eggs, coconut milk, coconut oil, and vanilla extract. Add the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
- Heat a griddle pan over medium high heat. Lower the heat to medium low, then pour circles of batter onto the griddle. Use about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake to get 12 pancakes. Cook for one to two minutes on each side, flipping when the surface of the pancakes are dotted with small bubbles.
- Serve with fruit and maple syrup.
Nutrition Estimate
Price Breakdown
This recipe costs a total of $1.69 to make, or $.42 per serving (3 pancakes). Try these easy oat flour pancakes for a healthier version of this classic weekend breakfast.
Note: This post was originally published in 2019, and it was updated in 2022.
Brigitte says
Can I use soy milk instead of coconut milk ?
Annemarie says
Yes, any milk will work for this recipe. Enjoy!
Diane L says
Can I replace the coconut oil with a different type of oil? Which oil would you recommend as a good substitute?
Annemarie says
You can replace the coconut oil with avocado oil or melted butter.
Isabella says
This recipe was AMAZING! I made it because I had to eat a healthy breakfast with no white sugar or white flour and it worked. The batter acted just like normal batter and it was so good. This will be my recipe to make whenever I need a healthy easy recipe for breakfast. Thank you 😊
Donna W. says
Thanks for the delicious GF recipe! I halved the recipe, used oat milk, used 1/2 refined-1/2 unrefined coconut oil (no real reason, just experimenting), made organic sprouted oats flour in the Blendtec. Then after mixing my dry ingredients in a separate bowl I decided to mix everything in the Blendtec–wet ingredients first then added the dry. Batter was thick so I then decided to make WAFFLES. They were perfect!
Tabitha S. says
Thank you for the GF recipe. It made a wonderful breakfast for my family of 4. I had 2 boxes of oatmeal baby cereal left over from the baby. So I used 1 cup oatmeal baby cereal and 1 cup regular oat flour. It worked! I also used apple sauce in place of the oil and used pumpkin spice in place of the cinnamon. It was a big hit with everyone!
Joan says
Very good pancakes. I plan to make this recipe again.
Tabitha says
Looks like a great recipe… wondering if you could use normal milk instead of coconut milk…? Trying it out tomorrow though!
Annemarie says
Yes, any milk will be fine. Enjoy!
ModChef says
You don’t add eggs and milk to an otherwise healthy pancake recipe! Baking powder easily replaces eggs, and almond milk or better option for creamier batter, soy milk will be superior to cows milk or coconut milk!
Annemarie says
Feel free to modify the recipe as desired.
Mike says
Excellent recipe! Thank you for posting! My 4 year old and 18 year old loved it!
Paula says
These were SO good! I was out of vanilla extract so swapped for almond extract. This will be my go to for pancakes!
Coriander says
This recipe made great pancakes, thanks! I thinned the batter slightly with extra coconut milk.
Audrey says
Making these today. Will alter a bit to make them waffles as we are a waffle family. I am a mother of 5 and grandmother of 14 and we have several members with different types of autoimmune issues. I’m always searching for new recipes that I can use or tweak to work for us. Thanks for the recipe
Annemarie says
Great idea! Let me know how it turns out in waffle form.
Sandy says
I love the hint of coconut!! De-lish!
Caroline Lafferty Smith says
I have been using alternative flours and thought it would be fun to make my own oat flours and this recipe fit the bill. I cut it in half because there are just two of us and it was a little runny (due to my haphazard calculations) and I didn’t feel like milling more pay flour, so added a wee bit of coconut flour to help absorb the liquid. Added some Greek yogurt and homemade blueberry syrup on top ❤️
donald meyer says
Thank you for posting this I just learned I could make oat flour and been on a Beng cooking with it since but this is by far my second best recipe I’ve used. My first was replaced the flour with oat flour in my favorite banana bread I used a little more baking powder and baking soda and took 1 egg and fluffed the white before combined and baked but that and this is now my two most favs for breakfast or snack. I also use a little piggy in a blanket silicone mold and place a little bacon or sausage in the piggy and top with a little more batter and they are amazing and easy on the go breakfast.
Thanks again, and happy baking ?
Carol says
I’m allergic to coconut anything. What can I substitute?
Annemarie says
Carol, any kind of milk will do, and you could use melted butter or avocado oil in place of the coconut oil.
Taylor M. says
What is one serving? Like how many pancakes is one serving? How big are the pancakes?
Annemarie says
Taylor, there are 3 pancakes in one serving, and each pancake uses 1/4 cup of batter (see #4 in the instructions). Each pancake is 3 to 4 inches wide.
Kim says
Can I prep the dry ingredients and keep them it stored til I make a batch by adding liquids? Like making my own pancake mix?
Annemarie says
I haven’t tried this, but it should work. Because of the oat flour, I recommend storing it in the refrigerator. Let me know if you try it!
Bridget says
These pancakes turned out really great^^, thank you for sharing this.
Laura Duffy says
What a delicious way to use oat flour! I bet it makes fantastic pancakes ?
Anne Lawton says
I make my own oat flour a lot from oats and I love the way pancakes turn out when I use it. These pancakes look delicious too!
Kerly says
Can I use something other than baking powder or ommit it all together ?
Annemarie says
You could try it without the baking powder, but the pancakes will be a bit more dense. You may want to add an extra egg to improve the rise of the batter.
STACEY CRAWFORD says
Wow, these are so fluffy and delicious! I love the flavor or oat flour with cinnamon!
Kari - Get Inspired Everyday! says
These are what I call weekend perfection, nothing like a stack of fluffy pancakes on Saturday morning!
ChihYu says
They are so fluffy delicious! Totally love it!
Hope says
These look like a great way to start the day!
Raia Todd says
Love easy recipes like this. I might have to double it and try it out on my family. 🙂
Sara says
Love the use of oat flour and love making your own oat flour even more!
Leslie says
Awesome recipe! I often use oat flour for gluten-free pancakes for my kiddos! I’ll have to try your recipe this weekend!
jennifer says
Always looking for a new pancake recipe and especially one I can share with gluten-free family members! these look so yummy
paleoglutenfreeguy says
Those look so toasty and fluffy! I want that whole stack right now. 😉
Tessa Simpson says
I love the touch of cinnamon!! So simple and straight forward, a perfect way to a hearty start!
Joni Gomes says
Oat pancakes are my favorite kind! Will try out your recipe!
Zuzana says
This looks really easy to make
Cheryl Malik says
These look SO fluffy!