Okay, i found your link to TastesBetterFromScratch and let me tell you calling that dish »German Pancakes« is dead wrong!my grandmother who came over from Austria-Hungary at age 16 in 1928 called the dish Orshteds …
The typical German pancake is made from a batter, consisting of milk, eggs, sugar, salt and wheat-flour and is about 2cm (a little less than 1") thick. Baked in a frying pan, usually with butter(!), from both sides by throwing it through the air to flip it over.
For simple pancakes that's it and they will be eaten as a substitute for bread with soup or a stew. However, it is very common to plaster the pancake with (slices of) fruit while one side is baking in the pan. Most popular are cherries, apples and plum:
Kirschpfannkuchen (Cherry pancake)
Apfelpfannkuchen (Apple pancake)
Pflaumenpfannkuchen (Plum pancake)
The variants with fruits are placed on a plate, drizzled with sugar and then covered with a pan-lid until the sugar has melted. And such a pancake is not a desert! That is a full meal and many people are not able to eat even one.
The dish on that web-site, i have never seen in Germany, to me this looks like a dish from the Scandinavia - yes, maybe even dutch.