Are Homemade Pancakes Slimming World Friendly? - Our Guide!

If it's a Sunday and you feel like cooking up a special brunch, or maybe you are just craving some pancakes, you might be wondering how many syns standard homemade pancakes have on the SW plan.

Homemade pancakes syns differ according to the ingredients inside of them, you can on average however expect them to have around 5 syns each when made with sem-skimmed milk.

Down below, we've discussed how many pancakes you can have on the slimming world, different syn values as well as two slimming world recipes for making your own syn-friendly pancakes at home.

How Many Pancakes Can I Eat On Slimming World?

At 5 syns for a small pancake made with semi-skimmed milk, you could have up to three small pancakes before using all your 15 daily syns, this will change however according to ingredients and size of the pancakes.

For example, one small sweet pancake made with whole milk will cost you 7 syns, while a sweet pancake made with semi-skimmed milk only has 6.5 syns, the style of pancake matters also, with sweet pancakes tending to have more syns than regular ones (check out our "syns in pancakes article (check out our "syns in pancakes article (check out our "syns in pancakes article.

Making your pancakes at home does allow you to manipulate the ingredients to make them more slimming world friendly, for example, you could switch out sugar for stevia and use the milk as your healthy extra A to reduce syns.

Syn Values Of Homemade Pancakes

As we mentioned above, homemade pancakes have differing syns according to the style, size and ingredients, to help you stay on track, we've listed some general syn values down below.

• Pancakes, Made with Semi-Skimmed Milk - 5.5 syns.
• Scotch Pancakes - 4 syns.
• Sweet Pancakes, Made with Whole Milk - 7 syns.
• Pancakes, Made with Skimmed Milk - 5 syns.
• Sweet Pancakes, Made with Semi-Skimmed Milk - 6.5 syns.
• Sweet Pancakes, Made with Skimmed Milk - 6 syns.
• American style buttermilk pancakes - 5.5 syns per small one.
• Banana pancakes small - 4 syns per one.
• Gluten-free pancakes small - 4.5 syns per one.
• Chocolate chip pancakes small - 7.5 syns.
• Large American style pancake - 8 syns on average.

Our Best SW Recipes For Making Homemade Pancakes

To make homemade pancakes which are lower in syns, you simply need to change a few ingredients to make them more slimming world friendly.

Down below we've listed our two favourite slimming world recipes for making American style pancakes, one using bananas which has 2.5 syns and the other oats which are syn-free!

Banana American Pancakes

Ingredients

• Two spoons of self-raising flour.
• Two whisked eggs.
• One banana.
• 180g of mixed berries.
• 100g of fat free plain fromage frais.
• Cinnamon.
• Low cal cooking spray.

Method

1. Start by mashing the banana in a bowl then add in your eggs and flour, spray your frying pan and leave it over medium heat.
2. To make 11 pancakes, pour a small amount of the pancake mixture into the pan to form a circle and allow it to cook for a minute turning golden brown on one side then flip over and cook again.
3. Serve three pancakes per person with your fromage frais, mixed berries and some cinnamon sprinkled on top.

Oat American Pancakes

Ingredients

• 80g of oats.
• Four eggs.
• Six spoons of fat-free plain yoghurt.
• Two drops of vanilla essence.
• Pinch of baking powder.
• Two spoons of granulated sweetener.

Method

1. Start to make your pancakes by blending your oats until they become flour, mix this with two of your eggs, the baking powder, vanilla essence, sweetener and yoghurt.
2. Heat your pan with some low cal cooking spray and whisk the last two eggs into the mix until it becomes smooth.
3. Use two and a half spoons of batter into the pan and allow the pancake to cook for a few minutes on each side before flipping.
4. Serve with fruit and enjoy!

Last Words

Overall, homemade pancakes can be high in syns, having up to 5 syns per cake for just a small-sized option, luckily, when making homemade pancakes you can adjust ingredients to make them more slimming world friendly.

Using oats, bananas and sweeteners can help to make your pancakes lower in syns following our recipes above and still fixes your pancake cravings!