These Vegan Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes are a perfect treat for Valentines or a special day. Delicious fluffy vanilla pancake topped with a cinnamon streusel for coffee cake pancake. Use cookie cutters to make a pancake tower. No Bake Cinnamon Streusel Cake! Vegan Soyfree Nutfree Recipe. Glutenfree Option Jump to Recipe 
We all love a decadent breakfast once in a while and these Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes are just perfect for that! These tall soft pancakes are a cinnamon streusel cake/coffee cake in pancake form! If you make them using cookie cutters, then they are almost a Cinnamon streusel cake, no baking needed and ready within 25 mins!
The batter is a simple vanilla cake batter that is cooked in a skillet. Sprinkle some streusel on one side, flip, cook and serve. I use Cookie cutters to make cake tower like my popular No Bake Chocolate Cake for 2- Chocolate Pancake tower (so decadent and ready in 20 mins!). You can make regular pancakes with the batter as well. Drizzle with maple, icing or top with some cream cheese frosting or whipped coconut cream and fruits! Make a whole baked cake with this recipe.
The pancake batter needs 1 Bowl, makes super fluffy pancakes with or without cookie cutters! Add berries or nuts for variation. The batter also makes great waffles.
More Valentines Day Recipes
- Chocolate Cake for 2, Chocolate Pancakes with ganache.
- Tiramisu Pancakes.
- Almond Butter Blondies with Chocolate Chips
- Easy Vegan Brownies
- Chocolate chip Cake
- Cinnamon Swirl Cake
- Banana French Toast
- Vegan Coffee Cake
- Chocolate Silk Pie
How to make soft cookie cutter pancakes
- Cookie cuter pancakes are cooked a bit differently than regular pancakes. Cook them on lower heat, don’t make them too thick, cook covered, cook for longer time.
- Higher heat tends to burn the bottoms before the batter on top has started to cook.
- Too thick pancakes wont cook in the middle. The batter rises a lot, so pour less to be on the safe side in the cookie cutter.
- I use large cookie cutters, (3.5 to 4.5 inch range works best) for these pancakes. The cutters get hot, so use the spatula to handle. After a try or 2, you will be able to figure out the amount of batter that works best to keep it easy and the best way to flip them.
Add icing or vegan cream cheese frosting to make a No Bake Coffee Cake (cinnamon streusel Cake!) for 2.
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Vegan Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes Coffee Cake Pancakes
Ingredients
Pancakes
Dry:
- 1 cup (125 g) flour (I use all purpose for soft pancakes), see Notes for glutenfree
- 1.75 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp (0.25 tsp) salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3 tbsp sugar
Wet:
- 1 cup (236 ml) non dairy milk
- ½ tsp (0.5 tsp) vanilla extract
- ½ tsp (0.5 tsp) vinegar
- 1 tbsp oil
Streusel:
- 2 tbsp flour
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- ¼ tsp (0.25 tsp) salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tbsp oil or melted vegan butter
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk the dry ingredients for pancakes until well combined.
- In another small bowl, mix ¾ cup non dairy milk, vanilla and vinegar. Add to the dry. Add oil and mix. Add more milk 2 tbsp at a time. Depending on the flours you will need 2 to 6 tbsp more. Whisk to make a pancake batter that is not too stiff and also not too thin.
- Mix the flour, sugar,salt and cinnamon for the streusel in a bowl. Add oil and mix to make a crumbly mixture.
- Heat a skillet over medium heat. Brush oil. If making regular pancakes: Pour batter on the hot skillet. Top with some streusel. Cover the pan and cook for 3 to 4 mins. Then flip and cook for another 2 mins.
- If making cookie cutter pancakes, Once the skillet is hot, place the cookie cutters on the skillet. Spray oil on the cutter. Pour pancake batter to reach a ⅓ to ½ of the height of the cookie cutter. Then sprinkle streusel. Cover the pan with a lid and reduce the heat to medium-low. Cook for 5 to 7 minutes, then flip the pancake with the cookie cutter and cook for 2 mins. Remove from pan. Let cool for a minute then carefully loosen the cookie cutter.
- Drizzle with maple, icing or top with some cream cheese frosting or whipped coconut cream and fruits!
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The tastiest and easiest pancakes! I don’t ever make any other pancakes.
Richa
Yay
sandiegogreengirl
These “pancakes” (they’re more like fluffy delicious cinnamon roll cakes) are darn delicious. Thanks for another great recipe! I just started an eco-blog (sandiegogreengirl.com) and a lot of my posts are about going vegan. According to experts, the single best way to reduce your impact on the planet is to adopt a plant-based diet. I’m writing a post about the best vegan breakfasts and I’m definitely including a link to these! Thanks again for your culinary wisdom. It’s saving the planet 🙂
Vegan Richa Support
why, thank you!
maia
Thank you for the recipe. The taste is fantastic. I’m always trying to cut fat in the diet so I only added 1/2 the oil to the mix and instead of pancakes I used my nonstick waffle maker instead based on another person’s question about making waffles instead of pancakes. I decided not to use the topping either. I just like to eat the waffles as a snack.
Thank you kindly Richa!
Lindsey
I used the cookie cutter method and they turned out great. I used the full 1 cup of milk. I was surprised how much they rose while cooking in the cutter. Fluffy and delicious! I will definitely make these again.
Vegan Richa Support
fancy chef technique – works every time- Hooray!
Karisa
My boyfriend and I have “Pancake Sunday” every week, and we both agree that these were our favorite pancakes yet! 💗 I can’t wait to order your cookbooks! Thank you for a yummy morning.
Richa
awesome! Thanks!
Timesaflyin
These sound fabulous.
Do you have any suggestion for replacing the Tbsp of oil? Your recipes always sound so good but I pass many because they have oil because I’m not sure if it can just be omitted.
Richa
you can just omit the oil in most of my baked recipes if its just 1-2 tbsp. Same for savory recipes, just use broth to sautet. For other baked recipes, use applesauce instead. Many of th newer posts already have oil free options mentioned.
Melissa Mednick
I can’t wait to try this recipe! What kind of “vinegar”? Apple Cider Vinegar? Thank you!
Richa
yes
Nimisha
Hi Richa,
Love love your recipes. Thank you so much for all the easy vegan versions. 🙂
Regarding the pancake batter. Can we store it in the fridge if made extra?
Thanks 😊
Richa
yes
patricia
hello! can you stop them in the freezer? for how long?
thank you!
Richa
yes, for about a month
Jessa
I made these and they were gooey and not thick at all. Where did I go wrong?
Richa
maybe baking powder is old, or they need longer cooking time if your stove runs lower in heat
Cassie Autumn Tran
Aw, I love how thick and fluffy these pancakes are! I bet this pancake recipe was so irresistible, especially when they were cooked and the toasty aroma of cinnamon and sugar filled the air! I totally would use this recipe any day if I wanted a super easy waffle or pancake breakfast. You can’t beat that!
Richa
it is so good!
Maneesha
This sounds so delicious!! Could you use this recipe for waffles?
Richa
yes, it should work fine.
Maneesha
Turnwd out so beautifully as waffles! Thanks Richa!!
Richa
awesome!
Edward Blocker
I just loved it, I’m not only going to give it 5 stars. But, I’m going to share it with all my website’s followers on the social media. Thank you for giving me something useful to share it today!
Julie
This sounds so tasty! If I wanted to make this as a cake, would you recommend 350 degrees and bake for 25-35 minutes? I can cut into squares and have yummy breakfast on the go for the kids…
Richa
try this cake. https://www.veganricha.com/2018/08/vegan-coffee-cake-recipe.html
Its a cinnamon streusel cake also called a coffee cake. The pancake batter would make a pretty small cake.
The Vegan 8
Omg these look amazing Richa!! Trying them soon!
Richa
Thanks Brandi!