sconut

English

Etymology

Blend of scone +‎ doughnut/donut.

Noun

sconut (plural sconuts)

A baked good consisting of deep-fried scone dough.
- 2007, Good Housekeeping, page 192:
  Oatmeal Sconuts
- 2014, Dorothy Kern, Dessert Mashups: Tasty Two-in-One Treats Including Sconuts, S’morescake and Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 21:
  I thought I loved scones made the regular way, but that’s before I’d ever had a sconut.
- 2014 April 28, “August First Bakery Maple Week!”, in Burlington Free Press, page 13A:
  Maple Bacon Sconuts
- 2017 August 26, Rick Nelson, “New fair food finds, flops”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVI, number 144:
  Mini Sconuts / Deep-frying balls of buttermilk-powered scone dough is a rare misstep from the fair’s best bakery.
- 2019, Livia Day, Keep Calm and Kill the Chef, Twelfth Planet Press, →ISBN:
  In the time it took for the #Sconebro bread artisans to perfect the bushberry sconut, Tabitha admitted to more evidence of her involvement in Crewe’s death.
- 2019, Chris Kennedy, Web. Write. Sell.: Write Ads, Headlines, and Calls to Action That People Can’t Help But Click, Questing Vole Press, →ISBN:
  Sconut Is the Next Incarnation in Donut Evolution
- 2019 February 23, “Fusion of scone and donut a match made in heaven”, in Rotorua Daily Post:
  A ‘Sconut’ is a fusion of a scone and a donut, taking the best parts of both to form one. […] To assemble your Sconuts, slice in half, pipe with whipped cream and add a dollop of strawberry jam.
- 2019 August 28, Jessie Van Berkel, “Politics a side dish at the fair”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXVIII, number 146, page A7:
  Matt Berg of Oakdale had just tried some sconuts (a scone-doughnut hybrid) at the French Meadow Bakery stand when he saw the Republican Party booth across the street and decided to peruse the clothing.