No Butter Homemade Pancakes
NO BUTTER Homemade Pancakes recipe are fluffy and so easy to make! They’re so good you won’t miss the butter at all, that makes them more healthy too! These made from scratch pancakes are my favorite Saturday morning breakfast, my family considers them the best! Dairy Free/Vegan option too!
How to Make Pancakes From Scratch
Don’t have any butter? That’s ok. Today we’re going to make some No Butter Homemade Pancakes. They’re just as delicious as butter made ones… maybe even better! We love these pancakes so much in our house that they became our #1 pancake recipe!
No Butter Pancakes Recipe
I wish I could say these pancakes were created because suddenly I wanted to make healthy pancakes and do without the butter, but the truth is that we were out of butter. Do you often run out of butter too?
Healthy Pancakes:
To make these pancakes you’ll need:
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup milk or almond milk
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
How to Make Homemade Pancakes
Instead of butter we’re going to use 2 tablespoons vegetable oil and 1 cup milk for the liquid ingredients. Even with no butter, these pancakes are going to be extra fluffy and moist!
First you’ll want to mix your dry ingredients together…like the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon!
Now add your wet ingredients to the bowl, the milk, eggs, oil and vanilla! Don’t you love how you probably already have all the ingredients in your kitchen? Btw, I’ve been buying a big bottle of vanilla extract that lasts forever – it’s so much more economical than buying those small bottles!
Spray a griddle or pan with nonstick spray and then heat the batter over medium high heat for a few minutes, making sure to brown both sides of the pancakes!
Dairy Free Pancakes
If you want to make these pancakes dairy free or vegan, that’s easy. Just substitute the milk for almond milk and you’re all set! You should also check out my Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies recipe!
Vegan Pancakes
If you want to make these pancakes vegan, that’s easy too. Instead of using 1 egg, use 1/4 cup applesauce.
Hope this No Butter Pancake recipe helps you if you’re all out of butter too! It might just become your new favorite pancake recipe!
And if you really love them, try making a double or triple batch to freeze! You’ll just need to throw them in a freezer bag to freeze. Then you’ll microwave them just like you do for any store bought frozen pancakes. Except these ones are so much better than store bought pancakes because they’re homemade!
Enjoy the pancakes everyone!
Looking for more breakfast recipes?
Are you craving waffles instead? Here’s my No Butter Waffle recipe!
After multiple reader requests I made these into Pancake Mini Muffins too!- YUM!
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No Butter Homemade Pancakes
NO BUTTER Homemade Pancakes recipe are fluffy and so easy to make! They're so good you won't miss the butter at all, that makes them more healthy too! These made from scratch pancakes are my favorite Saturday morning breakfast, my family considers them the best!
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a bowl. Make a well in the center.
- In another bowl mix together milk, egg, oil and vanilla until combined.
- Pour wet mixture into dry mixture well. Mix until completely combined.
- Spray a griddle or pan with nonstick spray. Heat over medium high heat.
- Pour 1/3 cup of batter for each pancake on hot griddle. Brown both sides.
- Serve hot with maple syrup on top.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
If you want to make them dairy free/vegan, then use almond milk instead of regular milk. Use 1/4 cup applesauce instead of egg.
I love the spice in these!
They look so soft and fluffy!
I try to go to the grocery store about once a week so that I don’t go overboard and buy too much fresh food that will go bad. I hate grocery shopping, I will have to look into online options!
Yummy looking pancakes~ I think about people in the city all the time, how it must be to haul your groceries home! It’s hard enough driving to the store, putting them in your trunk and hauling them 50 feet to your fridge. But 10-12 blocks? Wow.
Umm its not that hard bringing your groceries home
I could definitely go for one (or three) of these pancakes right about now. Looks delish!
I’m eating them right now I’m dying they are sooo good and soft and fluffy unlike other recipes where the pancakes aren’t that soft
Hey Maya, your comment makes me so happy! I’m thrilled you love these pancakes so much! Thanks for commenting and letting me know!
oooooooh these pancakes look so incredibly delicious!!!! Perfect way to start the day!
When I read the first few sentences, I was all set to recommend Instacart to you, but you’re one step ahead of me!! I have been using it ever since it launched in my city, and I LOOOOVE it. So glad you found it. For butter-related reasons (not that these pancakes aren’t amazing without butter!)…
I always make my pancakes without butter – just substitute oil. It works like a charm!
Haha, I totally used to consider my grocery run as my exercise for the day…I was pretty strong from that since I used to load up! Also, you totally have me craving pancakes right now…these look so yum!
WE are never out of butter (we store it in our freezer) but this is a great recipe nevertheless. Something to try. We walk a ton, so anything up to 2 miles away (4 miles there and back) is fair game for us — although of course we don’t buy heavy or really bulky things when we walk (we try to do a once-a-week car trip for heavy things). But we go multiple times a week, and usually buy a bag or two of stuff each time. Amazon Prime is terrific for a lot of bulky things, BTW — paper towels, even toilet paper. You have to be careful with prices, but their subscribe and save deals are often (not always) bargains.
Hey John, we use Amazon Prime for all bulky things – including cat food and cat litter, TP, paper towels, etc. I don’t know what I’d do without Prime!
Also we’re big walkers too! Not weird for us to magically appear on a 12 mile walk through the city. 🙂
Ahhhhh that salem GIF! YES! ha I used to love him! These pancakes look super 🙂 I online shop because I’m lazy, and because I like planning!
Those delivery services aren’t in my area, but Amazon Pantry is. I’ve been tempted to try it several times and I still might. We have a pretty limited selection of stores and stuff ehre, in small town USA. Luckily, my garden is started to supply most of my needs.
Is that Salem the cat eating pancakes? LOL!
Pamela, I adore your blog, its so diverse and I always pick up a tip or two. So thank you. You rock. I have never shopped online for food, only clothes. 🙂
It is! Glad you recognized him!
I’m so glad you posted this. I have been wanting to try no butter pancakes. They look great.
First, these pancakes sound delicious. Second, I’ve never done the online food shopping thing but I’ve always been curious about it! And last – it’s Sabrina the teenage witch! Well the cat that is : ) I loved that show!
Me too Ashley, I would watch it on TGIF every week!
Oh men, the cat clip is hilarious! And the pancakes look fantastic!
ela h.
Yes, I do often no butter pancakes, my daughters love them. Yours are looking so good, the photo with pouring maple syrup is my favorite.
These look fabulous! I’ve been on the hunt for a good pancake recipe 🙂
These pancakes look so comforting! Love that you made them without butter! I feel like I’m going to the grocery store all the time and the on I like is about a 15 minutes drive each way if there’s any traffic. We used to live just a couple of blocks from a store and I loved it! It was when my son was little and I’d go everyday and fill the bottom of the stroller up. Counted it as my exercise!
Awesome idea, thank you!
These pancakes are seriously amazing! I love how easy this seems!
One of the precious few perks of living in a small town! I’m abou 1 mile away from the store. We make 1 huge trip every 10 – 14 days and then casually pop in if we run out of apples or bananas whenever we have time. We also have a subscription to Sam’s Club, which is where we get our paper towels, kitty litter, etc. I definitely use Amazon for my hard to find ingredients though!
Love those cat shots! And the pancakes sound mighty fine, too!
My daughter lives in London and it seems that online grocery shopping is the best way to go in a big city. Sounds like you’ve discovered all the secrets to online shopping Pamela! And definitely the secrets to yummy pancakes. These look amazing!
Yum! I’ve never tried cinnamon in my pancakes. Will definitely try this! And I go to the grocery store a couple times a week. I can never seem to get organized enough to remember everything I need for a whole week.
I try to shop once a week, but usually end up having to go back for milk. City living is so different from living in a town or suburb. I love that in a city you can walk everywhere, but the hauling groceries would be tough. That would be a good way for me to not over-buy. 😀
Love these pancakes! Cinnamon and vanilla taste great in pancakes.
It depends on the week or what I’m making but I try to do my grocery shopping all at once but sometimes I have to go back for a few ingredients here and there.
I love that these pancakes have no butter which is something I have to make a grocery run for sometimes. They look absolutely amazing and I wish they would magically appear right in front of me now 🙂
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I live in a small town and the shop is quite close to our house so I don’t have that problem hehe. Though now that we’re living in the summer house we do have to drive to the nearest one uuughhh :'( No such thing as online food shopping here!
These pancakes look amaaaaaaaazing! I’d never have said that the butter was missing 😉
Your easy pancakes look amazing! I never used butter in my pancake batter!
That pancake-eating-black-cat looks cool!
I love it when you can overcome an ingredient problem, sometimes the best recipes come from creative thinking. I shop in a bunch of different ways, I do a bulk shop at the beginning of the month then I pop along to the local store as and when I need to, usually for baking stuff! But I also do a bit of online shopping as I don’t drive and if my fella is away working he isn’t around to drive me to the store and like you said a taxi is a crazy way to get home! Also a lot of my baking stuff is only available online, so I am very versatile in my shopping habits 😀
That Salem gif just made my day 😀 And can I confide in you? I recently watched all the seasons of Sabrina The Teenage Witch again. Such a good show!
Anyway, your pancakes are fabulous. I just want to lick that maple syrup off the screen…
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I was out of butter this morning and wanted to make pancakes! It was hard to find a tried-and-true recipe until I stumbled upon this one. They were delicious. The texture was perfect and the cinnamon really made them special. Thanks!
Thanks Katie, I’m glad this pancake recipe worked out for you!
My pancakes always turn out sub-par considering the amount of work. When I checked to see if I had butter I looked up a recipe without thinking “how bad can it be compared to my usual?”. Omg these were FANTASTIC and super simple. No sifting or waiting for ingredients to get to room temperature. They turned out a great shape, color, consistsncy and taste. This will be my new staple Sunday recipe.
So happy you enjoyed these pancakes Erin! You just reminded me to have to have breakfast for dinner sometime soon! 🙂
Like you, I ran out of butter but had a craving for pancakes! I couldn’t even tell they had no butter in them! They were fluffy and delicious. Thanks for this recipe, I’ll be making them again!
Thanks for stopping by Sammy, glad you enjoyed these pancakes!
I was out of butter but craving pancakes so I made these. I was worried because I never had pancakes without butter before but this is now my go to recipe! I added fresh berries into the mix. Delicious – thanks!
We didn’t have the egg, but these are by far the best pancakes i have ever tried in my life.
i really like your blog, but it was my sister that insisted that I should check it.
Thanks so much, this makes me happy to hear! Glad you guys enjoyed these pancakes, they’re one of our favorites for weekend breakfast!
I absolutely loved how the pancakes turned out! Even I, like you, didn’t have butter at home and then found your recipe. I even sprinkled some chocochips on the top! Thank you!
Yum! Homemade Chocolate Chip Pancakes sounds like the perfect way to start the weekend! Glad you enjoyed these Shwetha!
Great recipe! Would be nice when the portions are indicated!
Glad you enjoyed. Servings are 3-4.
i added almond-milk instead of milk and it was delicious
thanks for the recipe
Glad to hear you liked these pancakes Belo!
Made these for the famy and never again bought grocery store pancake mix love it
That makes me so happy to hear!
These are really tasty, thank you! I made them with a pinch more sugar and served them with banana slices as a treat for my four year old 🙂
Hey Amy, thanks for letting me know you guys liked them! Glad I could bring some yum to a Saturday morning!
can u also make cupcakes out of this recipe?
Hey Belo – hypothetically you could but I haven’t tried. If you give it a shot, I’d love to hear how they turn out!
IT WORKED! I’m so happy thanks so much for the recipe!
That’s awesome to hear! Thanks for letting me know!
these are Delicious . i cant even tell that they did not have butter .
for sure best pancakes i ever had
Thanks Adam, glad you enjoyed the pancakes!
Can you bake these in a muffin tin to make pancake bites? What are the requirements? Can I use oat flour that’s homemade? Filling/toppings?
Hello Urooba, I’ve never made these into muffin bites, but if you look up in the comments someone turned them into cupcakes and it worked perfectly. You will need to experiment with the recipe if you are changing them into bites and using oat flour for baking time.
Update: I made them into mini muffins – you can check out the recipe here: https://brooklynfarmgirl.com/2017/05/15/dairy-free-mini-pancake-muffins/ – YUM!
this is pretty graet
Thanks Asher!
Great!
Thanks Parth!
Teach me your ways :3 amazing recipe I just didn’t use cinnamon cause I don’t like cinnamon but I love how you added to make flavor I am eating these right now thank you so so much
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Just made them!! Delicious! I made them with whole meal flour and almond milk (and added a little bit of soy cream) so they were also lactose free, and used honey instead of sugar and they were fluffy and tasty as well.
Thank you!
Hey Ilaria, thanks for commenting! I love the addition of almond milk and honey. Glad to hear you enjoyed these pancakes!
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I just made these and they were amazing!! i added 3/4 tablespoon of sugar and added a little maple syrup into the batter and it was sooo good. thanks for the recipe!!!
Hey Carly, thank you for commenting! I’m so happy you liked the pancakes!
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I will try it
I never run out of butter, I always have some in the freezer, but I adopted the oil method years ago only because I was too lazy to melt the butter for my pancake recipe. You are right, nobody misses the butter!
The title got me intrigued. I love butter but I occasionally want to ditch it considering all the fat it brings with it. Pancakes are my favorite breakfast meal and it is so lovely to see your recipe and the unique idea that comes with it for cooking them. Definitely, nothing beats the homemade pancakes. Thank you for sharing.
These pancakes are delicious but they require egg so I had to adjust the recipe a bit to make it vegan friendly. Still good though! 💕
I’m so happy you enjoyed the pancakes! Thanks for commenting!
This is my go-to recipe when I am saving my butter for other recipes. I made them earlier this week. My kids eat them without syrup as a substitute for toast in the morning. Thanks for the great recipes (but I should stop looking for now, I am getting really hungry)!
Hey TJ, thanks for commenting and letting me know you liked these pancakes! Hope you can find some more recipes you like on my blog! 🙂
I just made these this morning and they are amazing!!!
Hey Macey, I’m so glad to hear you liked these pancakes! Thanks for commenting!
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theyre obviously not vegan if you add an egg…
Hey Ezra, you must have skipped the part that says “If you want to make these pancakes vegan, that’s easy too. Instead of using 1 egg, use 1/4 cup applesauce. ” Enjoy the recipe!
Just made these griddle cakes, pretty dang good.
Thanks for commenting Richard, and glad you like the pancakes!
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