Pancakes were a style of cooked food, typically flat, that could be used as an accompaniment to a main course. The Gloomroot Pancake was prepared by using grated gloomroot, which is a tuber originating from the planet of Kashyyyk. The Artiodac cook Strono Tuggs enjoyed incorporating other root vegetables into Gloomroot Pancakes to improve the sweetness and color of the typically brown dish. Tuggs provided a recipe for Gloom Pancakes inside his second cookbook, The Life Day Cookbook, sometime after releasing his initial cookbook in 34 ABY.
Flatcakes are a kind of pancake that are generally eaten for breakfast.
Within established Star Wars canon, pancakes were referenced in the 2021 publication Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook, a collection of recipes penned by Jenn Fujikawa together with Marc Sumerak.