jelly cake

English

Noun

jelly cake (plural jelly cakes)

1. A type of sponge cake with one or more layers of jelly (flavoured gelatin).
   • 2021, Pat Manser, More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary, Sydney: Macquarie Dictionary, page 33:

     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.