jelly cake
jelly cake noun: a type of sponge cake with one or more layers of jelly (flavoured gelatin).
Noun
jelly cake (plural jelly cakes)
- A type of sponge cake with one or more layers of jelly (flavoured gelatin).
- Another culinary disagreement arose when Sue defined lammingtons as squares of sponge cake coated in red jelly. The rest of us were shocked and amused, and insisted that lammingtons were coated in thin chocolate icing and rolled in coconut and that Sue was confusing them with jelly cakes.2021, Pat Manser, More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page 33
Forms of jelly cake
| plural | jelly cakes |
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Questions about jelly cake
- What does jelly cake mean?
- Jelly cake means a type of sponge cake with one or more layers of jelly (flavoured gelatin).
- What part of speech is jelly cake?
- Jelly cake is a noun.
- What is the plural of jelly cake?
- The plural of jelly cake is jelly cakes.
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