Sweet Potato Pancakes {with Cassava Flour}

Made with Cassava flour, sweetened with bananas, these sweet potato pancakes are soft and fluffy. Perfect for a family-friendly breakfast.

Sweet potato pancakes have been calling my name lately and I just couldn’t resist.

If you follow me on Instagram, you may already know my obsession with sweet potatoes. I eat sweet potatoes almost everyday.

In any form, honestly. I’m not picky when it comes to sweet potatoes.

Mini Sweet Potato Toasts

I love making sweet potato toasts topped with almond butter, cinnamon, bananas. So I thought, what could be better than combining all of these irresistible flavor it to a stack of pancakes or waffles?

Ingredients for this Pancake Recipe

I used to be obsessed with iHOP buttermilk pancakes, sweet, chewy, and so fluffy.

If you share the same guilty pleasure, you are going to love this healthier version of those dreamy pancakes!

In order to recreate that fluffy and sweet iHOP level pancakes, I found the perfect substitutions of ingredients through a few trials of errors.

1. Sweet Potato – Refined Sugar Free

Sweet Potato and banana are two of my favorite ways to use as sweeteners for my breakfast or dessert recipes.

2. Cassava Flour – Gluten Free

Instead of all purpose flour used in traditional pancake recipes, I substituted with cassava flour.

3. Coconut Oil – Dairy Free

To make these pancakes dairy free, I used coconut oil as an alternative to butter.

Don’t get me wrong, I love butter, but I love coconut oil even more. It is such a versatile ingredient to use and it also adds a rich coconut flavor and sweetness to the pancakes.

How to Make Perfect Gluten Free Pancakes

In all honesty, I didn’t really start getting my hands dirty in the kitchen until I graduated from college a few years ago. So that’s why I am all about easy and simple recipes that doesn’t require a lot of ingredients or cleaning.

So here are a few easy steps to make these fluffy sweet potato pancakes :

1. Cook the Sweet Potatoes

Again, my sweet potato obsession is real. I have always loved to have my sweet potatoes already cooked so I can have them on hand whenever my cravings hit. I use them for dessert like this sweet potato brownie (OMG) and I add them to my smoothies. I have them ready before the weekend comes so I can whip up these sweet potato pancakes.

A couple easy ways to prepare sweet potatoes:

1. Bake:

• Poke a few holes on the sweet potatoes

• Stick them in the oven and bake at 375 F for an hour or until soft

(I usually make them at night when I’m watching TV. Two birds with one stone, amirite?)

2. Steam

• Put the sweet potatoes and a little bit water in a big pot

• Bring the water to boil

• Turn the heat to simmer

• Cover and steam for half an hour or until soft

2. Mash Everything Together

Mash the sweet potatoes and bananas with the back of a fork and mix all the ingredients together.

3. Cook it up

• Spray the pan down with some coconut oil

• Pour the pancake batter into rings

Tip: I rarely make the perfectly round pancakes. So here is my trick – I got some silicone pancake rings. Voila! Now we have perfectly shaped pancakes!

Or if you have a waffle maker, you can just pour it in there. This pancake recipe will have waffles turn out so crispy!

4. Add Toppings

Last but not least, add toppings to your pancakes or waffles.

My favorites are almond butter, berries and granola!

Enjoy!

Now scroll down to check out the full recipe for these sweet potato pancakes. I am sure this will become your weekend breakfast staple!

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