I'm very very late to this discussion, but I just came back home.
I'm kinda sad that there's only the word pancakes for every single type of "pancake", because we have something very different here and it goes by a different word and is made from completely different ingredients, but when people hear the word pancake, they immediately think America.
These are 'pancakes' infused with yeast and they usually always have a filling, most popular are apples, but strawberries, blueberries, pears are used often too. And they're also usually coated in sugar after they're fried.