This magical vegan pancake cereal is made with unicorn colors and topped with rainbow sprinkles! Eat them in a bowl like cereal or as a tiny stack of pancakes.
First TikTok brought us dalgona coffee (which I'm pretty sure is just Cuban coffee), and now pancake cereal. This "cereal" is tiny little pancakes served in a bowl with your toppings of choice. The pancakes are already bite sized, so no messing around with a fork and knife. Genius!
Rather than making a plain version, I decided to infuse this trend with another trend: unicorn pancakes. To make a dish fit for a unicorn, you just have to dye it pink, blue, and purple, then top with rainbow sprinkles or glitter.
These pancakes are so dang cute. Just looking at them is giving me cute aggression. You know, that feeling when you're overwhelmed by the cuteness of a puppy or a baby that you don't know what to do? Those tiny baby little pancake edges!
🌈 Ingredients
All-purpose flour
Usually I like to make my pancakes with a mix of white and whole wheat pastry flour, but I'd recommend using white flour for these. This recipe is on the cusp of dessert, and rainbow sprinkles and fiber don't mix.
Food coloring
You can use any kind of vegan food coloring you like, whether it's natural food color or whatever you can find in the grocery store. Most food coloring is vegan nowadays, but always check the label.
My personal favorite is the Wilton gel food coloring. It's nice and concentrated, and the gel texture doesn't affect the consistency of the batter. The Wilton "no taste" red works perfectly in my Blood Orange Red Velvet Cupcake recipe. As promised, there's no taste.
Rainbow sprinkles
Vegan sprinkles can be hard to find, but there are options!
When shopping for sprinkles, look out for confectioner's glaze in the ingredients. Confectioner's glaze is a type of shellac made of insects used on candies and sprinkles for a shiny coating. Unfortunately, it's added to most sprinkles.
Some generic sprinkle brands are accidentally vegan (just read the label). The ones I used are from BulkFoods. The ingredients aren't listed on the website, but I emailed the company and they provided the ingredients list.
🔪 Instructions
This recipe is a variation of my Fluffy Pancakes and Rainbow Pancakes recipes, just miniaturized. By making the pancakes so small, they cook in mere minutes, so you can dig in faster.
- Combine all dry ingredients, then stir with a whisk.
- Make a well in the middle and add applesauce, vanilla, non-dairy milk, and melted vegan butter. Stir until almost combined.
- Evenly divide the batter into 3 bowls.
- Dye each one a different color (pink, blue, and purple), stirring enough to mix the color in.
- Preheat your skillet or cast iron pan at low-medium heat.
- Grease the pan with vegan butter or cooking spray.
- Drop 1-2 teaspoon portions of batter onto the prepared pan, allowing enough space between the pancakes.
- Flip when bubbles start to form, then transfer to a plate. Repeat until all the batter is gone.
- Serve bowls full of mini pancakes drizzled with syrup and topped with rainbow sprinkles.
💭 Tips
As mentioned above, these pancakes will cook really fast. You might have to do a few test pancakes and lower the heat if the outsides are cooking too fast so they don't burn.
You'll want to flip these mini pancakes when you start seeing the bubbles pop and stay popped, like in the photo below.
Since they're so tiny, they'll cool down really fast too. You can keep them warm by placing the plate of cooked pancakes in a 200°F oven, or simple microwave your bowl of "cereal" before eating.
📖 Recipe
Vegan Unicorn Pancake Cereal
This magical vegan pancake cereal is made with pink, blue, and purple mini pancakes. Perfect for a unicorn!
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon cornmeal
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ⅔ cups non-dairy milk, any kind
- 1 tablespoon vegan butter, melted
- Food coloring, pink, blue, and purple
- Vegan rainbow sprinkles
- Maple syrup
Instructions
- Combine all dry ingredients, then stir with a whisk.
- Make a well in the middle and add applesauce, vanilla, non-dairy milk, and melted vegan butter. Stir until almost combined.
- Evenly divide the batter into 3 bowls.
- Dye each one a different color (pink, blue, and purple), stirring enough to mix the color in.
- Preheat your skillet or cast iron pan at low-medium heat.
- Grease the pan with vegan butter or cooking spray.
- Drop 1-2 teaspoon portions of batter onto the prepared pan, allowing enough space between the pancakes.
- Flip when bubbles start to form, then transfer to a plate. Repeat until all the batter is gone.
- Serve bowls full of mini pancakes drizzled with syrup and topped with rainbow sprinkles.
Notes
- You can make these any color you'd like, or keep them plain.
- My favorite vegan food coloring is the Wilton gel food coloring.
- Use a small spatula or butter knife to flip the pancakes if a regular spatula is too big.
- Space out the mini pancakes enough so they don't expand into each other.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1 bowlAmount Per Serving: Calories: 379Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 500mgCarbohydrates: 71gFiber: 2gSugar: 20gProtein: 10g
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