pfannkuchen vs hot cake

pfannkuchen and hot cake both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pfannkuchen	Yes	No	No	No
hot cake	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hot cake is a hypernym of pfannkuchen; that is, hot cake is a word with a broader meaning than pfannkuchen:

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

Other hypernyms of pfannkuchen include battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake, pancake.

pfannkuchen (noun)	hot cake (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