Easy Gluten-Free Funfetti Pancakes (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

Name: Easy Gluten-Free Funfetti Pancakes (Vegan, Allergy-Free)
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 12 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 Cup Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour; 1 Tsp Baking Powder; 1/4 Cup Granulated Erythritol (or preferred granulated sweetener); 1/4 Cup Unsweetened Applesauce; 1/2 Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract; 1/2 Cup Unsweetened Non-Dairy Milk; 2 TB Natural Allergy-Free Sprinkles

Published: Jun 3, 2019 · Modified: Jun 8, 2021 by Rebecca Pytell · This post may contain affiliate links.

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Birthday breakfast goals! These Easy Gluten-Free Funfetti Pancakes are vegan, allergy-free, light, fluffy, & all natural! Just 7 ingredients and quick to whip up for kicking off any sweet, celebratory day! This recipe tastes just like cake batter and sprinkles (who says you can't have cake for breakfast and dessert!)

There are a ton of ways to kick off birthday festivities, but one that holds true for the entire day is "adding sprinkles to EVERYTHING"! I couldn't imagine starting off a birthday without something sweet, colorful, and smile-inducing! Bring on the Funfetti! We have a tradition here on Strength and Sunshine, that in the month of June we break out ALL the sprinkles! There's birthdays, blog anniversaries, and the general welcoming of Summer to celebrate! A sweet, light, fluffy stack of gluten-free Funfetti pancakes seems like just the recipe this year!

Ingredients for gluten-free Funfetti pancakes

Whether it's your birthday, the birthday of a loved one or you're making these for a celebratory brunch, you're going to want the cakey sweetness simple, quick, and easy to prepare! That's why you'll only need 7 simple, everyday ingredients for these Funfetti pancakes! They are light, fluffy, and taste just like cake batter with sweet notes of colorful sprinkles! Bonus, there is nothing artificial here, these cakes are all natural, low in sugar, so you can feel good about cake for breakfast!

What you'll need:

How to make Funfetti pancakes

Just like making homemade pancakes, BUT with the fun of SPRINKLES added in! Mix together your batter **cough, cough, cake batter**, fold in the sprinkles, and cook those birthday pancakes up in a jiffy! These confetti pancakes are gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free so you don't have to worry about "eggy" pancakes. You'll only be tasting fresh, light, sweetness! Make sure your skillet is nice and hot before dropping your cake batter down. That is the KEY to a good pancake! Once you see little bubbles form on the top of the batter, one quick and swift flip, to cook the other side of the pancake and you're golden (literally!)

How to top funfetti pancakes

The obvious answer would be sprinkles. How do you top a typical cake? Sprinkles and frosting! With breakfast cake batter pancakes, something like whipped cream seems like a much better option! A squirt of non-dairy whipped cream and a sprinkle of colorful sprinkles is the easiest way to serve birthday pancakes. If you want to take things to another level and make this stack of gluten-free vegan cakes even more celebratory and personalized, you have endless options!

Pancake topping options:

Since these from scratch Funfetti pancakes are low in sugar, the only sugar coming from the sprinkles (and natural sugars in the homemade applesauce), you can really go all out with the toppings! If these really are for a birthday breakfast, then don't forget the candle(s) too!

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Who are gluten-free vegan Funfetti pancakes for?

Anyone! Celiacs, vegans, food allergy kids and adults!

Are they only for birthday breakfasts?

Nope! I give you full permission to have your cake and eat it too (at any meal, any day of the year!) A birthday breakfast or brunch, yes, but you can have these pancakes for a celebratory day, or even just to make your week a bit brighter! There is no wrong time for pancakes and sprinkles!

Pancakes for a crowd?

This recipe makes 4 medium-sized pancakes that can serve 1 to 2 people. You can simply double, triple, quadruple the recipe as needed!

Freezing and reheating?

If you need to prep these Funfetti pancakes ahead of the big day, just cook up your cakes and allow them to cool on a wire rack (just like a traditional Funfetti cake!). Then wrap the cool pancakes in wax paper, stack them in a plastic bag or freezer-safe container and store in the freezer for up to 4 months for freshness. To reheat them, take out the number of cakes you want and either microwave them for a minute or two or heat them in the oven on a baking sheet at 350ºF for about 10 minutes.