A flapjack is a cake cooked on a grill or griddle, usually for breakfast. You can also call flapjacks "pancakes" — and when they're served with real maple syrup and berries, you can call them delicious!
Other terms for flapjacks include "hotcakes" and "griddlecakes." They're thin cakes made from batter that's cooked briefly on both sides in butter or oil. Flapjacks are usually sweet and served with syrup or fruit. There are many variations on the flapjack, including the delicate French crêpe, the Canadian buckwheat ploye, and the potato pancake. The word flapjack is believed to come from flipping, or "flapping," the cake on a griddle.
Definitions of flapjack
noun
a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
- synonyms:battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake
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- 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
(Judaism) 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
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- cake
baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
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