fritter

as in cake
a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried she loves eating corn fritters with maple syrup

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Recent Examples of fritter Ingredients For the fritters: 1¼ cups whole milk 5 Tbsp. Nick Malgieri, Saveur, 19 Mar. 2025 The Easter menu includes cauliflower soup with kalamata olives, a cheese fritter with salmon tartare, white beans with shrimp, and a dry-aged picanha with radish and mustard. Amber Love Bond, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 The feast of Bahamian goodies like conch fritters, rice and peas, macaroni pie, fish, and chicken was enough to ensure a good night’s sleep in my plush bed. Sheryl Nance-Nash, Travel + Leisure, 25 Dec. 2024 The lobster bisque, polenta fritters and cold shrimp salad were my favorites. Arika Herron, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fritter
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Noun
  • Enjoy making this fluffy, delicious cake year-round by keeping some blueberries in your freezer.
    Mary Alice Russell, Southern Living, 31 May 2025
  • Walking With Dinosaurs Season 2 (PBS) 📺 9 pm The Playboy Murders Season 3 finale (Investigation Discovery) 📺 9 pm Super Mega Cakes (Food Network) Team Duff Goldman goes up against six teams of the country’s best cake artists over the course of four days — all at once.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • So what kind of patty is the heavyweight champion of home delivery?
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2025
  • At the new Charlotte-area location, the team will be serving up bold Texas flavors that Harmon Dobson first launched in 1950, including Whataburger’s signature fresh, never-frozen beef patties on five-inch buns.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 16 May 2025

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