The first thing you need to do is prepare your egg replacement. If you'd prefer to use a regular egg, skip this very long step and omit the flax seed and the 3 Tablespoons of water. If using flax, in a large bowl, measure out 1 Tablespoon of flax seed meal. In another bowl or cup, measure out 3 Tablespoons of water, and grab a small hand blender or milk frother. Pour the water into the large bowl with the flax meal and immediately blend everything until well-combined. The powder will immediately begin to congeal and turn into your flax egg, so you need to stir quickly & thoroughly. If using psyllium husk powder, measure out your 2 ½ cups oat milk and 3 Tablespoons of water into a large bowl, then grab an immersion blender. Add your tablespoon of psyllium husk powder to the liquid and immediately blend everything thoroughly. Set aside your egg replacement.

Now measure out all your dry ingredients into another bowl: brown rice flour, oat flour, arrowroot flour, sea salt, vanilla powder, baking powder, coconut sugar, and protein powder (if using). Pictured here is hemp protein powder (the green stuff), which did end up darkening the final pancakes.

Your egg replacement should only take 2-3 minutes to finish thickening, so once you've measured your dry ingredients, add the oat milk to your flax egg and combine well. If you made a psyllium egg, your oat milk was already added.

Now turn on medium-low heat under your pancake pan, and start it warming on the stove. While that heats up, add all your dry ingredients to the liquid and combine well, which should take about 30 seconds to a minute.

Once the batter is well-combined, add a Tablespoon or so of butter or oil to your pan and let it melt for 30 seconds.

Once the oil has melted, spoon about a quarter cup of batter per pancake onto your hot pan, where you melted the butter or oil. Allow the pancakes to cook on

this first side until there are a lot of small bubbles forming on the surface, about 4-5 minutes. If you try to flip them too soon, they'll fall apart.

When you flip the 'cakes they should be browned on the other side, and if they're not, give them more time on that side. You have to be a bit delicate with these, as part of the fluff comes from the use of baking powder, which creates delicate air bubbles.

Cook them for 2-3 minutes on the other side and then remove and serve. I heartily recommend maple syrup or jam, especially if you added protein powder, but if you didn't then you may want to try a nut butter of some kind.