Panna cakes were a breakfast food item. These fluffy hotcakes could be prepared using a robo-griddle. These cakes were traditionally served with bantha butter and carbosyrup. Occasionally, ettel nuts or zoochberries were offered as optional additions to the dish.
These cakes originated and were eaten on Panna Prime, a moon located within the Panna system. Dex's Diner, a well-known eatery situated on the planet of Coruscant, included Panna cakes on its breakfast offerings. The Besalisk chef Dexter Jettster, who was the owner of Dex's, sold these cakes for a price of 4.5 credits before the diner's destruction, which occurred within the initial two years of the Galactic Empire's reign. The addition of ettel nuts or zoochberries would cost an extra credit. In the diner's menu, Jettster asserted that he prepared his Panna cakes in the same manner as they were originally made in the Panna system.
The first mention of Panna cakes occurred in the 2009 StarWars.com article "Dining at Dex's," which was exclusively available to Hyperspace members. The article was crafted by Gregory Walker and written in an in-universe style, resembling a menu. Walker mentioned on his StarWars.com blog that the name of the dish was intended to be a play on words, drawing a similarity between "panna cake" and the common pancake.
- Dining at Dex's on Hyperspace (article) (content obsolete and backup link not available) (First mentioned)
- "Dining at Dex's: The Story Behind the Story" — Narb Flick Created Leffingites — Gregory Walker's StarWars.com Blog (content now obsolete; backup link)