[niho]

To further complicate the pancake taxonomy there is also the curiosity of “plättar”. Very small pancakes made in a special frying pan for more festive occasions. Not sure about their origin, but they are very common in Småland in the south of Sweden.

https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plättar#/media/Fil%3APlattla...

[vidarh]

Plättar sounds a bit like Norwegian lapper. E.g.:

https://www.tine.no/oppskrifter/kaker/vafler-og-smakaker/sve...

But my favourite variant is rislapper, where the starting point is cold rice porridge:

https://www.tine.no/oppskrifter/kaker/vafler-og-smakaker/ris...

As a child we'd often have rice porridge one day, and if there were leftovers we'd have rislapper a day or two later.

You can make it in a regular pan, as the mix is thick enough it'll stay together, so just make them small.

(I strongly object, however, to the use of sour cream, jam and pistachio's to serve with them, and wonder what they'd been smoking - I prefer butter and a sprinkling of sugar)

[stevesimmons]

Two more types of small pancakes are poffertjes (Dutch), which sound a lot like your Swedish plättar, and pikelets (English).

[unwind]

Swedish cookery geek who loves visiting the Netherlands: poffertjes have depth, the pan has deep round-bottomed indents to hold batter. Swedish plättar are also made in a special pan (typically cast iron and from someone's granny) but the indents are circular and low, just maybe 3 mm deep. Lucky this is right after breakfast or I would be hungry now.