| Noun | 1. | coffee roll - any of numerous yeast-raised sweet rolls with our without raisins or nuts or spices or a glazebun, roll - small rounded bread either plain or sweet cross bun, hot cross bun - moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze bear claw, bear paw - almond-flavored yeast-raised pastry shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw pinwheel roll - pinwheel-shaped rolls spread with cinnamon and sugar and filled with e.g. jam before baking | |