in the kitchenDipping and sprinkles
also: jimmies · nonpareils · the dip
New England says jimmies. Almost nowhere else does.
Icing in flat pans, sprinkles in bins: a donut is dipped face-down, then set in the sprinkles while the icing is still wet.
The story Cited · wp-sprinkles
Sprinkles are small pieces of confectionery used as decoration. The long ones are called jimmies in parts of the United States, above all New England and Philadelphia; the tiny balls are nonpareils. Chocolate, maple, strawberry and vanilla icings are the standard dips, and the colour on a shop's sprinkles is one of the few things it chooses purely to look like itself.
How it is done Tradition
Dip, lift, tilt to shed the excess, then straight into the tray of sprinkles before it sets.
Today Inference
A case of sprinkled donuts is the shop's shop window, which is why the bright ones sit at eye level.
The particulars
| kind | finish |
|---|---|
| region | The United States |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Who it runs with
Where we got it
- Sprinkles — Wikipedia · link
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.