german pancake vs battercake

german pancake and battercake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
german pancake	Yes	No	No	No
battercake	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, battercake is a hypernym of german pancake; that is, battercake is a word with a broader meaning than german pancake:

german pancake: puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce
battercake: a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Other hypernyms of german pancake include flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake.

german pancake (noun)	battercake (noun)
puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce	a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle