Pancake vs. Flapjacks — What's the Difference?

Can be sweet or savory depending on added ingredients.

Consumed as an energy snack.

A thin, round cake made from batter and cooked on both sides.

Often includes additional ingredients like dried fruits.

Variations include buttermilk, buckwheat, and blueberry.

A sweet tray-baked bar made from oats, butter, and syrup.

Part of many national cuisines under different names.

Known for their chewy texture.

Often eaten for breakfast in many cultures.

Not to be confused with pancakes.

A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack, not to be confused with oat bar flapjacks) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan, often frying with oil or butter. Archaeological evidence suggests that pancakes were probably the earliest and most widespread cereal food eaten in prehistoric societies.The pancake's shape and structure varies worldwide.

See pancake.

A thin, flat cake of batter, fried on both sides in a pan and typically rolled up with a sweet or savoury filling

Chiefly British A hard or chewy bar traditionally made from oats and brown sugar, softened with butter and golden syrup, and then baked.

Make-up consisting of a flat solid layer of compressed powder, used especially in the theatre.

Plural of flapjack; pancakes.

(with reference to an aircraft) make or cause to make a pancake landing

Flatten or become flattened

A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.

To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.

To make a pancake landing.

To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.

A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.

In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.

(theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.

(juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.

Anything very thin and flat.

Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.

A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.

(volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.

(intransitive) To make a pancake landing.

To collapse one floor after another.

(transitive) To flatten violently.

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Syrup, fruits, chocolate chips, and whipped cream.

In the UK, they are oat bars, while in the US, they refer to pancakes.

They can be nutritious but are often high in sugar.

Yes, ingredients like blueberries or chocolate chips can be added.

They are typically cooled and served at room temperature.

Yes, pancakes are sometimes served for dinner in North America.

Eggs, flour, milk, and baking powder.

Pancakes are fluffy and soft, while UK flapjacks are chewy and dense.

They are usually fried on a griddle or in a frying pan.

Both can be made vegan by substituting plant-based ingredients.