Finnish Pancakes - Letut, Lätyt or Ohukaiset

🥞✨ Letut — Finnish Pancakes with a Whole Lot of Heart 🇫🇮

Crispy on the edges, soft in the middle, and always served with a generous scoop of jam and a cloud of whipped cream — that’s how we do pancakes in Finland. These thin, golden beauties (called letut or lätyt) are somewhere between crepes and American pancakes — but trust me, they’ve got a personality of their own.

They’re the taste of summer cottage mornings, the smell of butter sizzling in the pan, and the sound of kids running barefoot waiting for “just one more.” 💛

In Finland, letut aren’t just breakfast — they’re a mood. Whether cooked over a campfire in an old cast-iron pan or flipped in a cozy kitchen, they bring everyone to the table.

Serve them rolled with strawberry jam, layered with berries, or folded and dusted with powdered sugar. Bonus points for making them outdoors on a summer evening while someone’s heating the sauna — because that’s peak Finnish happiness. 🪵🔥🇫🇮

Ingredients

• 6 Eggs

• 10 dl Whole Milk

• 2 dl Tonic Water (Or Whole Milk)

• 6 dl Wheat Flour

• 2 tbsp Sugar

• 2 tbsp Vanilla Extract

• 1 tsp Salt

• 0.75 dl Olive Oil

• Butter with Salt for Baking

Instructions

Whisk the eggs lightly in a bowl. Add the other ingredients to the batter and whisk until smooth. Let the batter rest for 30 minutes. You can also make the batter in a mixer.

Fry thin pancakes from the batter in salted butter in a pan.

Serve, for example, with sugar, jam, sweetened berry purée, ice cream, or whipped cream, and milk to drink.

Pro Tips

Use Tonic Water for smoother mixture. 

Use lots of butter for crispy edges and the best taste!