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A serving of pannukakku with jam, whipped cream and a cup of coffeeA serving of Åland pancake (ålandspannkaka), a distinctive variety of pannukakku from Åland, an autonomous archipelago in Finland
Etymology
pannu + kakku; calque of Swedishpannkaka(“pancake”) (both words of which, panna and kaka, are furthermore related to the Finnish counterparts). The figurative sense "failure, fiasco" (which is also found in Swedish) may refer to how a cake that fails to rise in the oven stays flat like a pancake.
pannukakku tends to refer to thicker pancakes, like those in the photos. Thinner pancakes are usually called something else, like ohukainen, lettu or räiskäle.
“pannukakku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
