These Whole Wheat Apple Pancakes are light, fluffy, and have incredible apple flavor. They are made with no oil or butter and make for a hearty, filling, and healthy breakfast.
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These are not just your regular, run of the mill pancakes, though. These Whole Wheat Apple Pancakes are perfect-for-fall-warm-up-your-morning apple pancakes. You get a triple dose of apples through apple cider, apple sauce (which replaces oil or butter!) and chunks of fresh apple hidden inside. Let me just say they are incredible.
Not only are they full of apple goodness, these healthy pancakes are 100% whole grain. I use whole wheat pastry flour, but regular whole wheat flour works, too.
I cut out the oil or butter from the batter and opted to get my healthy fats by topping the cakes with walnuts. (omega 3s, baby!)
Add these Whole Wheat Apple Pancakes to your weekend! You’ll be glad you did.
The Ultimate Whole Wheat Apple Pancakes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 pancakes 1x
Description
These Whole Wheat Apple Pancakes are the lightest, fluffiest whole wheat pancakes I’ve ever made and I know you are going to LOVE them!
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 tablespoon coconut sugar (or sugar of choice)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients
- 3/4 cup apple cider
- 3/4 milk (I use unsweetened almond milk; any kind of milk will work)
- 1 large egg
- 4 tablespoons apple sauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Add-in
- 1 apple, peeled and diced
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients well.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients well.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients. Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl and mix until just combined. Fold in the diced apple. Do not over mix.
- To cook the pancakes, heat a large skillet or griddle over medium heat. When the pan is ready, butter or oil the pan. Pour the pancake batter using a 1/3 cup measure cup onto the pan. Allow the pancake to cook until the edges appear dry and there are tiny bubbles forming on the surface. Flip and cook an additional 1-2 minutes until the pancake is golden brown. Enjoy!
Notes
Busy Mama Tip: Make an extra batch of these on the weekend and freeze them. You’ll have easy weekday breakfasts ready to go!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 pancake
- Calories: 122
- Sugar: 6.5
- Fat: 0.5
- Carbohydrates: 24
- Fiber: 3.6
- Protein: 3.1
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Hiya, I’m just wondering what I can use instead of Apple cider or is it possible to leave that out?
I would use all milk in place of the apple cider. The flavor will be more like a plain pancake than an apple pancake, but it’ll still be good. 🙂
These look delicious! I’ve added this to one of my Pinterest boards so I can make them next opportunity for my son!
Thanks, Marnie!
So adding this to my weekend breakfast menu. I love apples in pancakes but the healthy subs you did totally rock, pinned these gorgeous pancakes can’t wait to make them girl!
Thanks so much, Krista!
Oh my goodness these look so fluffy and delicious! Perfect for crisp autumn mornings.
Thanks, Kate!
These look sooo good! I love the triple apple flavor, and that they are whole-wheat! Pinned!
Thanks so much for the pin, Kristine!:)
Those look amazing! I love trying new pancake recipes, so these may have to join our weekend plans! They’re so fluffy!
I hope you got a chance to try these! 🙂
These sound so healthy & delicious. Thanks so much for the recipe – pinning it to my Apple and Breakfast boards.
Hi Heather! Thanks so much for the pin. I hope you’re having a great weekend! 🙂
These apple pancakes look delicious! It was a clever idea to substitute butter/oil with applesauce. Pinned!
Thanks, Azu!
These look so good! As soon as my baby boy wakes up from napping in my arms I’m making these! 🙂
Let me know how they turn out! 🙂
I’m dying over the fluffiness!! As soon as I saw apple cider in the ingredients, I knew this was a winner 🙂 Can’t wait to try!
You’ll love these!!
I love Pancake weekends as well! Looks like a perfect recipe, thank you! I wonder if we could add some apple cider vinegar to the almond milk for a quadruple apple punch and to make them buttermilk. Enjoy your weekend feeding you and your fam healthy goodness!
Oh wow–that’s a fantastic idea!! Let me know if you give it a try. Have a great weekend!
Just stopping in to see your latest recipe and the pancakes are fluffy and golden brown… Looks amazing and for some reason I just thought you lived in California, I think I might be wrong like 100s of miles wrong. Well Have a great evening. 🙂
Nope, not in CA. January-March I wish I was, though! 😉 I’m a Michigan girl living in Ohio.