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jelly cakes

jelly cakes is the plural of jelly cake.

Meaning of jelly cake

Noun

jelly cake (plural jelly cakes)

  1. 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

Questions about jelly cakes

What is jelly cakes the plural of?
Jelly cakes is the plural of jelly cake.

Words near jelly cakes in the dictionary

  1. jelly blubber
  2. jelly blubbers
  3. jelly bracelet
  4. jelly bracelets
  5. jelly cake
  6. jelly cakes
  7. jelly coconut
  8. jelly coconuts
  9. jelly donut
  10. jelly donuts
  11. jelly doughnut

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