jellyroll

Spiral cream pastry

A jellyroll is a thin sponge cake spread with jelly or jam and rolled into a spiral, then sliced to reveal concentric layers.

The term extends to anything with a similar rolled shape.

In jazz slang, jellyroll is the vagina or sexual intercourse—a usage immortalized by early jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton.

She baked a jellyroll for the church social.

pastry

sponge cake

Air-leavened flour confection

baking · oven · flour · butter · sugar · vanilla · glaze · icing · custard · dessert

jazz

New Orleans

Louisiana's largest city

swing · improvisation · piano · stride · jazz standard · bebop · scat · trumpet · clarinet · saxophone

spiral

coil

Wound circular arrangement

  • swirlRotating, curving movement
  • curlSpiral or loop form
  • twistRotating motion or surprise

whorl · scroll · pinwheel · sleeping bag · wound · furled · tubular · cylindrical

Opposites
pastry form/structure

jellyrollpound cake

Dense buttery loaf dessert

sheet cake · layer cake · flat cake · bundt cake · bread loaf

filling type

jellyrollmeat roll

jazz piano style

jellyrollfree jazz

Formless avant-garde improvisation

classical piano

Family

jellyrolls

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G