These easy vegan pancakes have a rich, chocolaty brownie taste and a creamy, cookie dough swirl! They are a healthy, gluten free breakfast that tastes like dessert!
I’m stepping in today. To challenge ERYTHANG you know about what a healthy breakfast should look like.
I mean, a pesto omelet? It’s totally healthy and an EGGS-cellent way to start the day.
But, you know what it’s not? COOKIE DOUGH.
Judging by the fact that I’ve made you cookie dough overnight oats, a cookie dough banana ice cream recipe, vegan cookie dough breakfast bowls, vegan brownies stuffed with cookie dough and even a cookie dough almond butter recipe, well…
You kinda figured out that my main plan for world domination is to cookie dough ALL the things.
Would you blame a girl fo’ tryin’ though? We’re taking swirls of creamy, rich peanut-flavored deliciousness that is speckled with tiny bites of crunchy chocolate chips that explode in sweet-yumminess in your mouth.
Clearly, the obsession is warranted.
I think my everyday life is defined by my brain subconsciously trying to plot what other kind of food-items I can mish-mash together with aforementioned peanuty-chocolatey, creamy-unbaked-cookie perfection. Like, I was sitting down eating a stack of boring blueberry gluten free pancakes one Saturday morning and immediately, raw-cookie-brain went AHA!
Swirled in a pancake.
A CHOCOLATE PANCAKE.
And maybe it could be vegan? And the texture inside could be thick and ooey-gooey so it’s actually kind of like Beaming Baker’s Ultimate Fudgy Paleo Vegan Brownies made on a griddle?
Clearly the inner-workings of my addiction-ridden mind have HIGH hopes for my pancake making abilities.
TRUE LIFE FACT: I did not live up to these pre-conceived abilities the first time attempting these breakfast bites of sweet, sweet bliss. Or the second time….or the third…or the fourth.
These Vegan Cookie Dough Brownie Pancakes? THEY TOOK ME 10 TIMES. Not that I’m counting or anything.
But you know who is counting? Mr. FFF. In the sense that he has now eaten SO many vegan pancakes in the span of 3 days that I think he might have developed some inner fear. And then I made him try a different version when I made whole wheat vegan pancakes! ?
Is there a support group for husbands of food bloggers?
Anyway 10 (maybe 10+? I don’t even know anymore) pancakes-that-did-not-flip-or-cook-at-all trials aside, THIS version that you see stacked to create the most perfect chocolate-peanut, ooey-gooey-rich and SOSO YUMMY tower of your new favorite breakfast?
Well, they are all the things I just mentioned. AND MORE.
“More” in the sense that they are A-L-S-O dairy free, egg free and evenly secretly packed with PROTEIN.
Pancakes that power up your day? You definitely don’t hate that.
As per always, I have a few (okay just two) MAJOR protips. Not even tips though. More like “just follow these two simple instruction or you will be sad at the not-so-awesome way your pancakes turnout”
KEEP THEM SMALL. You know how the recipe says “a scant ¼ cup and to not spread them out too much?” AND “cook on medium LOW?”
Yep. Not a suggestion. The inner-bossy-pants-person that lives inside me is coming out. But only because I want to foster our internet friendship, so I am trying to make all your healthy-cookie-dough-for-breakfast dreams a reality.
If you make them bigger…they are SUPER hard to flip. Unless you use two flippers.
Which is just sort of awkward. I tried it.
AND, if you cook them at a higher temperature? The outside will burn and the inside just might not cook.
BUT, when your forks sinks through a stack of THICK, melty-centered chocolate pancakes and then your taste buds get PUNCHED with peanut butter perfection?
WORTH. IT.
I also shared the Vegan Cookie Dough Brownie Pancakes Recipe on Food Fanatic, so be sure to check it out there!
Other recipes you might like:
Vegan Chickpea Cookie Dough Bowls
Cookie Dough Vegan Banana Ice Cream Bars
FOR THIS RECIPE, I RECOMMEND:
WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS PER SERVING: SMARTPOINTS: 10 POINTS+: 8. OLD POINTS: 5
(per serving, which equals 2 pancakes)
IF YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE, PLEASE REMEMBER TO TAG @FOODFAITHFIT AND #FOODFAITHFITNESS ON INSTAGRAM! I LOVE SEEING YOUR RECIPE RECREATIONS! 
Want more gluten free pancakes?
Blueberry Gluten Free Pancakes with Quinoa and Lemon
Microwave Peanut Protein Pancakes with Chocolate Chips
Vegan pancakes from around the web:
Gluten-Free S’Mores Pancakes – Strength and Sunshine
Vegan Buckwheat & Oat Pancakes – A Saucy Kitchen
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Tori//Gringalicious says
OOOOH LA LA! These look like my dream come true!
Taylor Kiser says
I think so 😉 ha! Thank you!
Marina @ A Dancer's Live-It says
Excuse me while I just drool all over my keyboard now….I saw “brownie” in the title and was like uhhhh, YUP!! Tomorrow’s breakfast! 😉
Taylor Kiser says
Hahahaah YASSSS girl! Thanks!
Marye says
I absolutely love these pancakes, I cannot wait to try them!
Taylor Kiser says
I hope you love them! Thank you!
Kristen Chidsey says
In how many ways can I say YES to these? You hit it out of the park Taylor 🙂
Taylor Kiser says
Haha! Thanks!
Jessica @ Jessica in the Kitchen says
Gosh I LOVE how thick and gorgeous these are. I’m here for “indulgent” healthy dessert that tastes amazing!
Taylor Kiser says
I am ALL for that too Jessica! Thanks!
Jessica @ Jessica in the Kitchen says
P.S. I was pinning this and showed my husband and he agrees – there needs to be a husbands of food bloggers group!! Hahaha.
Taylor Kiser says
HAHA let’s start it!!
Sarah | Happy + Healthy Taste Buds says
WOOOOOWWW! That drip of chocolate running down the side in the first picture… Yum!!
Pancakes always seem like a simple thing until you try to cook them pretty enough to photograph… it is stinkin’ hard to keep them from crumpling or splattering when you try to flip them! Never mind keeping them the perfect golden color…
I made a grain-free pancake recipe the other day that I hope to post on my blog soon. The recipe was PERFECTION! But I definitely could not photograph that first batch… it was UHH-GLY! 😉 But yummy. 😉
Anyways, rant about pancakes refusing to be photogenic is now over… Thanks for this appealing vegan pancake recipe, Taylor! 🙂
Taylor Kiser says
HAHAA YES!! Oh my gosh, the perfect photograph of pancakes was VERY real with these! So glad someone understands!
and thank you!
Leslie says
Can these be made with regular peanut butter instead of the powdered?
Taylor Kiser says
I’m sorry, but they really can’t – they are two completely different textures!
Matt says
You have a way of making everything look ridiculously good. And these pancakes are calling out to me!
Taylor Kiser says
Haha thank you Matt!
Lindsay Cotter says
You, my friend, are a genius!! I am drooling over this amazing stack of pancakes! Wow!
Taylor Kiser says
Thank you!
Cassie says
This is UNREAL. Yes, I love oatmeal, sweet potatoes and all, but sometimes I just HAVE TO HAVE pancakes! I need to try these out STAT!
Taylor Kiser says
I LOVEEEEEE Pancakes, need them always! Thanks Cassie!