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Definition of Angel cake
1. Noun. A light sponge cake made without egg yolks.
Definition of Angel cake
1. Noun. A layer cake consisting of two or three layers of sweet sponge coloured white, pink and yellow with a thin layer of white cream. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Angel Cake
Literary usage of Angel cake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Home Cook Book: A Collection of Practical Receipts by Expert Cooks (1905)
"... Filling —Fruit Filling—Filling for Any Flavor—angel cake—Angel Food—Dried
Apple Cake—Baker's Cake—A Birthday Cake—Bride's Cake—California Cake—Chocolate ..."
2. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1911)
"Bake fifty minutes in a moderate oven in an angel-cake pan. Mocha Cake To one-half
recipe for Sunshine Cake add one-half cup English walnut meats broken in ..."
3. Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book. Over Three by Carrie V. Shuman (1893)
"angel cake. From MRS. DANIEL HALL, of New Hampshire, Lady Manager. The whites of
eleven eggs beaten to a stiff froth; add one and one-half cups of ..."
4. Life and Light for Woman by Woman's Board of Missions (1894)
"PRISCILLA'S angel cake. cannot afford to take them in. ... PRISCILLA'S angel cake.
BY PANSY. PRISCILLA stood by the front window, looking out upon the world ..."
5. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody; an Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase, William Wesley Cook (1920)
"Bake in an angel cake tin (not buttered) about 40 minutes in a moderate oven.
... Keeps well, and will use the yolks of eggs left after making angel cake. ..."
6. Lessons in Cookery by Frances Elizabeth Stewart (1919)
"Bakers sometimes add cornstarch to angel cake to make it tender. ... (One cook
asserts that cream of tartar whitens angel cake and keeps it tender and moist ..."