Start your day with a stack of homemade vegan Multigrain Pancakes! Serve them with fresh fruit and Almond Butter Drizzle. This healthy pancake recipe is made with whole wheat flour and rolled oats, and it's perfect for breakfast any day of the week. Pancakes taste so much better when you make then from scratch rather than with a mix!

Multigrain Pancakes
It may sound shocking, but I’m not that into pancakes. They get soggy too quickly, and I feel like I’m left with a plate of paste. I often find that I’m super hungry an hour or two later when I have them for breakfast I can handle them in small doses along with something savory, like a little bit of tofu scramble and some hash browns, but I don’t really like to have them as my breakfast main dish.

Dennis, however, loves pancakes. If he had his way, he’d have pancakes for breakfast every day. I’ve caught him making small pancakes for snacks, too.
Dennis’s birthday is Christmas Eve, which is kind of a bad day for birthdays. I always get up early and make him a big breakfast, to give the day a yummy start. In the past, I’ve made Biscuits and Gravy Breakfast Sandwiches and Breakfast Pizza.

Last year, because he loves them so much, I made pancakes. Not just any pancakes – vegan Multigrain Pancakes with Almond Butter Drizzle. I served them with fresh fruit, veggie sausages, and slices of cheesy tofu.
This recipe is a vegan adaptation of an omnivore dish I came across in Cooking Light magazine a few years ago.

What You Need
- Almond or soy milk
- Apple cider vinegar
- Rolled oats
- Warm water divided
- Almond butter
- Maple syrup
- Whole wheat flour
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Sea salt
- Ground flaxseeds
- Vanilla extract
- Fresh fruit
See the recipe card for exact amounts
Clabbering Almond Milk
Clabbered almond milk (or soy milk) is the first step in this recipe. Clabbering thickens and curdles milk, giving it a buttermilk-like consistency.
To make clabbered milk, you just need to add vinegar to almond or soy milk and let it sit for about 10 minutes. It will look curdled, which is what you want. This won't work as well with other non-dairy milks, so make sure you use either almond or soy.

How to Make Multigrain Pancakes
- To make this recipe, first you mix non-dairy milk with apple cider vinegar to clabber – it will curdle and sour, giving it the appearance of buttermilk.
- You then add rolled oats to the milk to mixture to soften them.
- Then, you mix whole wheat flour with baking powder, baking soda, salt, water and ground flaxseeds.
- You then mix in the oat-milk mixture.
- Then you cook the batter in a hot pan or griddle, until it cooks up to fluffy pancakes.

Serving Your Pancakes
These multigrain pancakes are topped with fresh fruit and a drizzle that’s made with almond butter, maple syrup, and water. The drizzle is really the star of the recipe!

Recipe Notes
If you follow a gluten-free diet, you can use substitute Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour. If you follow a nut-free diet, you can use soy milk and sunbutter.



Multigrain Pancakes with Almond Butter Drizzle
Ingredients
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons almond or soy milk
- 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
- ⅔ cup rolled oats
- ¼ cup plus 3 tablespoons warm water divided
- ¼ cup almond butter
- 2 ½ tablespoons maple syrup
- ¾ cup whole wheat flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups fresh fruit
Instructions
- Whisk the almond or soy milk together with the apple cider vinegar. Let sit for 5 to 10 minutes, and then combine the clabbered milk with the oats in a medium bowl. Let sit for 10 minutes.
- In a small bowl, whisk together ¼ cup warm water, almond butter, and maple syrup to make the almond butter drizzle. Whisk until smooth. Set aside until the pancakes are ready.
- In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sea salt.
- Mix together the remaining 3 tablespoons of warm water and the ground flaxseeds.
- Add the milk–oat mixture, the flax mixture, and the vanilla to the flour mixture, stirring until just combined.
- Heat a large griddle over medium-high heat. Spoon ½ cup of the batter onto the griddle and cook until the edges look dry, about 2 or 3 minutes. Flip and cook for 1 to 2 minutes on the other side. Repeat with the remaining batter. Cover the pancakes so they stay hot while the rest are cooking.
- Serve drizzled with the almond butter sauce and garnished with fresh fruit.

Becky Striepe
These look amazing, Dianne! I bet the whole grains and almond butter will help me avoid the post-pancake crash that I usually experience, too. I can't wait to make these!
Dianne
Thanks, Becky! I get that crash, too, but these don't do that, thankfully!
Angelica
I love this recipe! I also love making pancakes with my leftover too-ripe bananas, it’s easy and the best way to start a Sunday morning!
Dianne
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Angelica!