These paleo pancakes are made with almond flour, lightly sweetened and super fluffy. Perfect for a special paleo breakfast or brunch and easy to modify with various mix-ins.

Everyone needs a good "basic" pancake recipe! Basic meaning: easy to make and alter to your liking with various add-ins and flavorings.
Which is exactly why I created these paleo pancakes made with almond flour!
This recipe is:
- grain free & gluten free
- dairy free
- light and fluffy
- easy to make
- can be modified with various mix-ins
These healthy almond flour pancakes can easily be turned into paleo blueberry pancakes, cooked with chocolate chips or filled sprinkles (to name a few).
And the toppings? The sky's the limit! Drizzle on some maple syrup and add a handful of fresh berries, or top with coconut cream and chopped nuts. You really can't go wrong with any of your favorite paleo pancake toppings.

Ingredients
Here's what you need to make this recipe for paleo pancakes:
- almond flour
- arrowroot starch/flour
- coconut flour
- Paleo baking powder
- cinnamon (optional)
- salt
- eggs
- almond milk
- maple syrup
- avocado oil
- vanilla extract (optional)
The combination of almond flour, arrowroot flour and coconut flour makes a fluffy, moist and grain free pancake. Tapioca flour may be used instead of arrowroot, but I don't recommend any other flour substitutions.
I make my own Paleo baking powder, but any type will work. Just note, many conventional baking powders contain cornstarch, which is not paleo or grain free.
Eggs act as a binder and help fluff up the pancakes. I have not tried an egg substitution, but if you do then let me know the results in the comments.
These paleo pancakes are sweetened with maple syrup. However, any liquid sweeter will work in it's place.
While avocado oil is not 100% necessary, it helps with the texture of these pancakes. It can be omitted or replaced with olive oil or liquid coconut oil.
How to Make Paleo Pancakes
The batter for these fluffy almond flour pancakes is whisked by hand and cooked on the stove top. These pancakes do not fall apart when flipping and the whole batch can be ready in less than 30 minutes!
Here's what you need to do:
First, combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. This includes the almond flour, arrowroot starch, coconut flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt. Then, in a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, almond milk, maple syrup, avocado oil and vanilla. Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and whisk until smooth.
Let the batter sit for 5 minutes to thicken. While you're waiting, lightly grease and preheat a frying pan on medium heat.
Next, pour ยผ cup batter per pancake onto the frying pan. Cover with a lid and cook on medium heat until lots of little bubbles form on top of the pancake. Remove the lid, flip and cook until done.
Why cover pancakes when cooking them? Well, I find that this method helps fluff up the pancakes and cook them through without burning them. If you don't have a lid, that's fine!
Storage
Like most pancakes, these are best eaten just after cooking.
This recipe for almond flour pancakes makes 8 pancakes, using ยผ cup batter per pancake. I recommend cooking the number you want to eat, then storing the leftover batter in the fridge (for 3-5 days).
Another option is to cook all the pancakes and store the leftovers in the fridge or freezer. However, I prefer them fresh!
More Paleo Pancake Recipes
For more easy paleo pancake recipes, check out these from my blog:
Enjoy!
PrintPaleo Pancakes with Almond Flour
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 8 pancakes 1x
Description
This is the basic Paleo pancake recipe everyone needs!ย These healthy pancakes are made with almond flour, lightly sweetened and super fluffy.
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond flour (100g)
- ยฝ cup arrowroot starch/flour (66g)
- 3 Tbsp coconut flour (18g)
- 2 tsp Paleo baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon (optional)
- ยผ tsp salt
- 2 large eggs
- ยฝ cup almond milk
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp avocado oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients (almond flour, arrowroot starch, coconut flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt).
- In a separate bowl, whisk together wet ingredients (eggs, almond milk, maple syrup, avocado oil and vanilla).
- Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and whisk until smooth.ย
- Let the batter sit for 5-10 minutes to thicken.ย During this time, grease and preheat a frying pan on medium heat.
- Pour batter onto the preheated frying pan (ยผ cup per pancake).ย Cover with a lid and cook on medium-low heat until lots of little bubbles form on top of the pancakes.ย Flip, and cook until done.
Notes
For best results, measure ingredients by weight.
Ana
Thank you for this recipe... I made them this morning for breakfast, soooo good. I omitted the maple syrup, so my 1 year old daughter can eat them as well.
Katie
Thank YOU! I'm so glad you and your daughter enjoyed them ๐ I appreciate the review!
Katie
This is one of my family's favorite pancake recipes. We hope you love them too!
Whitney
Wow these are amazing! I've been trying different paleo pancake recipes for the last 6 years. All of them majorly pale in comparison to these! Thank you thank you!
All of your recipes are amazing by the way. If I ever want to make a new dessert I go straight to your page. They never fail to be delicious.
Katie
Oh my goodness! You just made my day! Thank you so much for the kind review. I'm so glad that you love the pancakes ๐
Diana
These were the tastiest and fluffiest ever! I had to double the milk in the recipe as they thickened up so much I could hardly scoop them. Really great though
Katie
I'm so glad you enjoyed them! Did you by chance measure the flours by weight? Using too much (or too little) can change the texture of the batter quite a bit, especially when coconut flour is involved.
Diana
Yes, I weighed the dry ingredients. Leftover pancakes I popped into the toaster for a few min. Delicious! thank you!
Diana
I see what i did!
I left out the maple syrup!
Next time I'll add 2Tbl more almond milk!
Dayris Andrade Araujo
Oh my god!!.. These pancakes were amazing!.. I just cooked them last night, in advance, and they were incredible... light- fluffy.. the smell while they are cooking is delicious.. the cinammon ads tons of flavour.. best pancakes we've ever had.. thanks a lot from VENEZUELA.. #PaleoLife
Katie
Oh I'm so happy that you loved them and that they worked well cooked in advance! Thank you for the kind review ๐
Shannon
If the best results are from weighing ingredients, could you please post it with the weight of ingredients?
Shannon
I just saw them at the end ๐ ๐
Katie
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