Moist, light, and fluffy Banana Pancakes sweetened with brown sugar and flavored with vanilla. The best Banana Pancakes EVER!
Banana Pancakes! For breakfast, lunch, and brinner, because we need all the comfort food we can get. Am I right? This delicious stack of pancakes tastes like a marriage between buttermilk pancakes and banana bread, and I am HERE FOR IT.
If you’ve tried my Banana French Toast Casserole, Banana Nut Muffins, Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins, or Easy Banana Bread you know that the combination of bananas and brown sugar is fantastic. These pancakes feature the flavors of brown sugar, banana, and vanilla. They taste like a warm and cozy hug piled high on a plate.
Banana Pancake Recipe Overview
These moist Banana Pancakes bake up fluffy but light. They come together in minutes. Here’s how to make them:
- Combine dry ingredients: flour, baking, powder, salt.
- Combine wet ingredients: mashed banana, melted butter, egg, buttermilk, vanilla, brown sugar.
- Combine the wet and dry.
- Scoop the batter onto a greased griddle. Cook, flip, cook – enjoy!
Recipe tips
- Buttermilk helps make these pancakes moist, tender, and fluffy. If you don’t have buttermilk you can try my Buttermilk Substitute.
- For a stronger brown sugar flavor use dark brown sugar. Out of brown sugar? Try my Brown Sugar Substitute.
- Use overripe bananas, as they are extra sweet and soft. You’ll need about 2 small bananas.
- This recipe makes about 8 medium-sized pancakes. If you need more you can easily double it.
- For a gluten free version, I have successfully swapped a 1:1 gluten free flour blend for the all purpose flour.
More banana recipes:
Brown Sugar Banana Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour*
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup mashed ripe banana, about 2 small bananas
- 2 tablespoons melted unsalted butter, (plus more for greasing griddle)
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup buttermilk**
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar, (I prefer dark brown sugar)
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- To serve: , butter, maple syrup, sliced banana, walnuts, and/or chocolate chips.
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In a separate bowl, whisk mashed banana, butter, egg, buttermilk, brown sugar, and vanilla. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir with a rubber spatula until combined, being careful not to overmix.
- Heat a griddle or large skillet over medium-low heat and grease with butter. Drop the batter in approximately 1/3 cup portions onto the griddle, spreading out the batter to form even circles. Cook until bubbles begin to form (it might be hard to see the bubbles because the batter will be thick). Flip and continue cooking until cooked through (another couple minutes). Be careful not to turn up the heat too high, as you want the pancakes to cook slowly so that the outside doesn't cook faster than the inside. Serve hot with butter and syrup.
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Tried this recipe?Leave a comment and rating below!
Alison
How new is the McCormick Brown Sugar Vanilla Breakfast Seasoning? Any of my local grocery stores don’t carry it and is a bummer. Have to buy it on line and pick up shipping charges too 🙁
Celebrating Sweets
Hi, Alison. They came out earlier this year. They should be available at Walmart; I’m sorry that you weren’t able to find them. You can make this recipe without the seasoning, just add an extra tablespoon of brown sugar and extra 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract. Enjoy!
Alison
I found them on Amazon . I”l get the 4 pack with 4 different flavors have you tried the other ones yet? the apple cinnamon would be good in your recipe as well! . Have you tried the bell pepper good morning seasoning, that’d be good with some fajitas or r even a plain scrambled egg or an omelette.
Celebrating Sweets
Yes, I’ve tried all of them. My kids love the apple cinnamon on oatmeal. 🙂
Chrissy
These pancakes were so fluffy – yum! Can’t wait to make them again for breakfast this weekend.
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them! 🙂
Katie
So good! Glad I tried this one.
Tracy
Could these be frozen?
Allison
I haven’t tried it but I would assume so.
Jennifer Kester
The whole family loved these fluffy pancakes! Thank you!
Allison
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Tanya
These pancakes are amazing! So good and flavorful. I don’t do dairy, so I just used rice milk in place of the buttermilk and they turned out great. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Allison
You’re welcome! Thanks for taking the time to comment. 🙂
Stephanie
Easy recipe and these had good flavor! But for me, the batter was just so thick that they didn’t cook evenly on the griddle. I will make again, but adjust the thickness with a bit more buttermilk.
Chris
Delicious recipe. Even hubby had 2 and he doesn’t like pancakes!
Allison
Awesome! I’m glad you enjoyed them. 🙂