corndodger

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Chiefly Southern US A small round cornmeal cake that is baked or fried.
• noun Chiefly Southern Atlantic US A dumpling of cornmeal that is boiled or steamed.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A kind of cake made of the meal of Indian corn, and baked very hard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun U.S. A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A cake made of the meal of Indian corn, wrapped in a covering of husks or paper, and baked under the embers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun small oval cake of corn bread baked or fried (chiefly southern)