jelly doughnut

American  

noun

1. a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam and sometimes sprinkled with powdered sugar.

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Example Sentences

You won’t find a typical glazed or jelly doughnut behind the display case at Zuri’s, where wild combo flavors dolled up in technicolor are the counter shop’s M.O.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023

While it's true that berliner is a word for jelly doughnut, it wasn't the preferred term in Berlin and the surrounding area at the time.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

An otherwise good jelly doughnut can be undone by an inferior filling loaded with corn starch and too little fruit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2017

At right is in image taken Jan. 8 showing a rock shaped like a jelly doughnut.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2014

When you cut into a normal spleen with a scalpel, it gives about as much resistance to the knife as a jelly doughnut, and it drips a lot of blood.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston