pancake

/ˌpænˈkeɪk/

/ˈpænkeɪk/

Other forms: pancakes

A pancake is a breakfast dish, a flat cake that's made by pouring batter into a hot pan and frying it on both sides. Many people like to eat their pancakes with a drizzle of maple syrup.

While pancakes can be savory, they're more often a sweet breakfast food in the US. Most pancakes begin as a mixture of flour, eggs, milk, and butter, are fried on a greased griddle, and are circular in shape. Pancakes have a long history, stretching as least as far back as ancient Greece, and appear in various forms throughout the world, from savory African injera to the sweet Finnish dessert pancakes known as lettu.

Definitions of pancake

1. noun

   a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
   synonyms: battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake

   types:

   buckwheat cake

   a pancake made with buckwheat flour

   buttermilk pancake

   a pancake made with buttermilk

   blini, bliny

   Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream

   blintz, blintze

   a thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked

   French pancake, crape, crepe

   small very thin pancake

   german pancake, pfannkuchen

   puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce

   latke, potato pancake

   a pancake made of grated potato and egg with a little flour

   tortilla

   thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour

   crepe Suzette

   crepes flamed in a sweet orange-and-lemon flavored liqueur sauce

   tostada

   a crisp flat tortilla

   type of:

   cake

   baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat