Need an quick & delicious healthy breakfast? These easy-to-make cranberry pear vegan spelt pancakes only call for 10 ingredients and are full of fall flavour.
Confession: I’ve always been crap at making pancakes. Pancakes were one of the first thing I ever attempted to make on my own and to say I failed would be an understatement. After I graduated from primary school I had the bright idea to try my hand at baking but I was most definitely not a natural.
Over a one month period I managed to screw up sponge cake so badly I’m still terrified of making cake from scratch. And my attempts at making pancakes ended with a ruined a skillet and a river of tears. Needless to say, I didn’t try making pancakes again for a very long time.
In fact, I only have two actual pancake recipes on the blog because to this day, I still don’t trust myself around those little circles of breakfast death. Pancake loaves and vegan french toast are much more my speed.
But when I saw that this month’s Recipe Redux theme was all about first cooking recollections, I knew I had to try my hand at making homemade pancakes again. Specifically these cranberry pear vegan spelt pancakes.
Cranberry Pear Vegan Spelt Pancakes
I’ve been making some variation of these vegan spelt pancakes at least once every couple of weeks for a while now and I love them. They’re super easy to throw together – like 1 bowl easy – and call for 10 ingredients apart from the mix ins.
The batter is also very forgiving, so if you screw up, like I tend to do, don’t worry. Oh, and these vegan spelt pancakes were the easiest pancakes I’ve ever had the pleasure of flipping. I usually dread flipping pancakes because I’m the worst with a spatula but I didn’t have to scrap a single one. Huzzah!
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- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
- ½ tbsp apple cider vinegar
- ½ tbsp freshly squeeze citrus juice (I used lemon, but orange would work really well)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup spelt flour* (+ more if needed)
- 3 tbsp coconut sugar
- 4 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp lemon or orange zest
- ¼ cup cranberries, fresh or frozen
- 2 tbsp finely diced pears
- ¼ cup cranberries
- 2 tbsp diced pears
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp freshly squeezes lemon or orange juice
- water as needed
- Combine almond milk, apple cider vinegar and lemon juice in a measuring cup and set aside
- Mix together flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, salt and zest
- Add the vanilla to the almond milk mixture and mix well
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until just incorporated. Add up to ¼ cup more spelt if the batter is too runny
- Fold in the cranberries and pears
- Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat and add a little oil if necessary (this will depend on how non-stick your pan actually is)
- For each pancake, spoon ¼ to ⅓ cup of batter onto skillet and cook until bubbles form on the surface (about 1 to 2 minutes) then flip and cook for 1 - 2 minutes on the other side
- Repeat until batter is done, remembering to oil the skillet between pancakes if necessary
- Serve warm with maple or cranberry pear syrup
- Add the fruit, maple syrup and lemon juice to a small saucepan and add just enough water to cover the fruit
- Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, then lower heat to a simmer
- Continue to heat the mixture until the it begins to thicken and fruit begins to wilt
- Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly before serving
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Friend, I feel you on messing up on recipes; and I love those recipes that are hard to mess up and are so forgiving. These look ABSOLUTELY delicious and fallish.
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the recipe does sound SO simple and easy. love the compote too! i used to make pancakes wth my dad all the time on weekends 🙂
These look like the most perfect pancakes for Fall! The cranberry topping looks delicious!
Thanks Emily! And it was so good. The perfect sweet/tart combo 🙂
I have never cooked with spelt before nor tasted it. I hide things often in pancakes too
Oh I bake almost exclusively with spelt these days. It’s not as harsh on my stomach as regular wheat flours and I like the flavour as well. And the best part is it works just like whole wheat in most recipes so substituting is easy 🙂
What gorgeous pancakes – and I love the look of the topping. Well done on facing your fear and making these beauties 😀
Thanks Jo! I’ve seriously been making pancakes almost weekly since facing that fear. Fingers crossed tackling cakes will be just as easy 😂
Ooh the combination of cranberry and pear on these pancakes sounds delicious! Beautiful photos!
Thanks Kristine! 🙂
You had me at cranberry! Your pancakes look and sound delicious. I really like using almond milk too and need to try spelt flour.
Highly recommend trying spelt! Such a nice flavour and it works the same as whole wheat in a little of recipes so it’s easy to sub 😊