zeppole

American  

[ze-poh-lay, tse-, se-] / zɛˈpoʊ leɪ, tsɛ-, sɛ- /

noun

plural

zeppole, zeppoles, zeppoli

1. Italian Cooking. a deep-fried pastry made with a light, airy dough and often sprinkled with sugar or stuffed with custard, chocolate, or the like (usually used as a plural).

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Example Sentences

First cultivated by the Phoenicians, saffron now colors and perfumes numerous dishes, from little gnocchi called malloreddus to gelato and zeppole, a fried dough eaten at Carnival.

From Washington Times • Apr. 6, 2023

“History hasn’t gotten here yet,” King-Lu says, and neither have cookbooks, so what recipe did Cookie follow for his delicious-looking fried doughnuts, reminiscent of malasadas or zeppole?

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2020

For dessert, zeppole with blackberry jam and housemade soft-serve both sound great.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2017

After the pizza and pasta and wine are gone, another tradition: a plate piled high with small zeppole dusted with powdered sugar, on the house.

From New York Times • May 9, 2015

Now it draws from much of Long Island and from the local area, where people might not know what a zeppole is, but show up nonetheless.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2010