A sufganiyah (; plural, sufganiyot: סופגניות)'s a ball-shaped doughnut that's first fried, pierced and injected with jelly or custard, and then topped with powdered sugar, similar to the German Berliner, the Polish pączki, or the Russian ponchik. In Yiddish, they're known as ponchkes. They're usually eaten warm. The Hebrew word sufganiyah derives from the Hebrew word for sponge (sfog, ). This's supposed to describe the texture of a sufganiyah,… (More on Sufganiyah)