angel food cake
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of angel food cake
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85; after the white color of the cake
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I remembered watching Sandra Lee on Semi-Homemade Cooking take a store-bought angel food cake, fill the center with pie filling, ice the outside, and place it in the center of a table.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2022
We didn't make the cake that night, after all, but I filed away his love for angel food cake into the collection of things I was starting to remember about him.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2022
While baking angel food cake isn't difficult, it's not exactly easy either.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2022
Food writer Allison Robicelli uses it in her angel food cake recipe “that’s ethereally fluffy, no folding or futzing required,” she wrote.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
I plug some headphones into the family laptop, select the angel food cake episode of The Great British Baking Show, and turn up the sound so I can’t hear them arguing.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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