3-ingredient Oat Banana Pancakes for Baby (2024)

Easy, healthy banana pancakes for baby are so quick and so easy to make that we make them almost every day for our kids. They are made in 10 minutes and with just 3 ingredients - oats, bananas and eggs. You can give them to a 6 month old baby-led weaning, toddlers and even adults love them. Great with peanut butter and fruit, as breakfast or on-the-go snack. Can be made with egg alternatives (vegan), and are both gluten-free and naturally dairy-free.

*This post has been reviewed byDora Babic-Cikos, PhD Nutritional Science

Why We Love These Baby Pancakes?

• Easy to make in just 10 mins
• Healthy, simple ingredients in these baby pancakes
• No-flour pancakes
• Dairy and gluten-free (if you use gluten-free oats)
• Can be made with egg or vegan if you haven't given baby egg yet
• Perfect baby-led weaning banana pancakes from 6 month old +
• Perfect toddler pancake snack
• Perfect for on-the-go, travel, airplane snack
• One of the best breakfast ideas for toddlers

Ingredients

• Bananas - Use fully ripe or overripe bananas for sweetness.
• Eggs - choose organic or free-range eggs if possible. Eggs bind the whole recipe together so the pancake does not fall apart. If you have not yet introduced your baby with egg, best is to do it before giving these pancakes, serving the yolk and white at separate occasions as each is a separate allergen. You can scroll below on how to make these pancakes with no-egg.
• Oats - use instant, rolled oats or oat flour. We prefer to use Bob's Red Mill Rolled oats as they have little ingredient, nutrition and processing concerns.
• Additional ingredients can be a teaspoon of chia seeds, flaxseeds or hemp seeds.

We do not use any baking powder or sweetener such as maple syrup as these pancakes are already fluffy and there is not need for additional sugar in a baby's diet.

How to Make Pancakes for Baby?

1. Place the banana, oats, eggs and 2 tablespoon of water into a blender and blend until you have a smooth pancake batter. We use the Magic Bullet because it blends very smooth and is easy to use and wash up (and inexpensive) or the Vitamix which is top of the range. You could also mix the ingredients by hand by mashing the banana and adding oat flour and eggs.
2. Heat a medium skillet on high heat and add a teaspoon of coconut oil. Once heated, bring the heat down to medium heat, take a tablespoon of batter and portion out 4 pancakes across the skillet and let them cook for about 3 minutes until the sides are golden and have firmed.
3. Flip them (they should flip super easily) and cook for another 2 minutes.
4. Serve with some nut butter, fruit, yogurt or they are delicious on their own.

How To Serve Banana Pancakes to Babies and Toddlers?

• Great pancake recipe for babies who are following BLW or have already moved from purees to finger food, as well as toddlers and adults, making them a perfect breakfast or snack to have as a family.

Baby-led Weaning Pancakes

• 6-9 month old– cut the banana baby pancakes in length and width of your index finger so they can easily grab them
• 9 month+ or pincer grasp– cut into smaller bite size pieces, the size of your pinky fingernail if you prefer
• You can serve these with a thin smear of nut butter (nut butters are choking hazards so be careful to spread it thinly) and fruit mashed or cut up age appropriately

Serving Pancakes to Toddler

• Serve them whole, the same as you would for adults
• Spread peanut butter on them and then fold like a sandwich to make them mess free but delicious

How to store and reheat?

Storage

• Fridge– place in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
• Freezer– if you think you will be defrosting them individually then place them one on top of the other and then separate them with parchment paper followed by placing them in an airtight container. Once defrosted, use within 24 hours.

Reheating from frozen

• Reheat in the ovenat 180°C / 350°F for about 5-10 min.
• Reheat in toasterfor 1 min on defrost setting
• Reheat in microwavefor about 15 sec on defrost setting (depending on the microwave)

How to make banana oat pancakes vegan?

Tips

• Use ripe or overipe bananas to make them sweet
• Use coconut oil when heating up the pan. For some reason it just works 100x better than any other oil with this recipe. And it gives a nice flavour
• Blend the mixture in an blender or Vitamix
• Use a silicone spatula to flip the pancakes because it will change your life
• Cut the pancake the length and width of your index finger to serve for baby-led weaning
• Add chia seeds, flax seeds or hemp seeds for additional nutrient boost
• Add spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg
• Add chocolate chips to the pancake batter if you want to make them more special for adults (kids don't need additional sugar)

• ▢ 1 ripe banana
• ▢ ½ cup oats
• ▢ 2 eggs
• ▢ 2 tablespoon water
• ▢ coconut oil for cooking

Optional

• ▢ 1 tsp chia seeds/flax seeds/hemp seeds
• ▢ pinch cinnamon

• Combine all ingredients (except the coconut oil) and blend until smooth.

• Heat a medium skillet on high heat and add a teaspoon of coconut oil. Once heated, bring the heat down to medium, take a tablespoon of batter and portion out 4 pancakes across the skillet and let them cook for about 3 minutes until the sides are golden and have firmed.

• Flip them (they should flip super easily) and cook for another 2 minutes.

• Serve with some nut butter, fruit, yogurt or they are delicious on their own.

• Age - from 6 month old +
• To hand mix - if not using blender use oat flour instead of oats to make a smooth batter
• To flip - use a to flip the pancakes because it will change your life
• BLW - cut the pancake the length and width of your index finger to serve for baby-led weaning
• Store 3 days in fridge and up to 3 months in freezer. For reheating instructions see post
• Make it vegan by using chia egg or flax egg (1 tablespoon of chia/flax soaked 3 tablespoon of water for 15 minutes)
• No need for baking powder as they are already fluffy
• No need for sweetener such as maple syrup as it is just additional sugar that babies or kids don't need