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angel food cake

n. a light sponge cake made without egg yolks [syn: angel cake]

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Angel food cake

Angel food cake, or angel cake, is a type of sponge cake made with stiffly beaten egg whites with no addition of butter. Angel food cake originated in the United States and first became popular in the late 19th century. It gained its unique reputation along with its name due to its light and fluffy texture that was said to be the "food of the angels".

Usage examples of "angel food cake".

And there's the angel food cake, vanilla frosting in tiny crests, like waves, and four pink candles, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY L.

Would she turn praying mantis, and devour him, as if he were angel food cake, or would she surrender to him, as all the romances—.

The longer the crowd was made to linger, the more soft drinks, angel food cake, T-shirts, Bibles, holy candles and sunblock they purchased.

Eli Everjohn drank his coffee white, preferred Jane Parker angel food cake to taco chips, and was perfectly comfortable sitting on a chrome-legged chair in the kitchen.

But, you see, I liked the beans so well that I took two helpings after the first one, and I liked the potato salad so well I took two helpings of that, extra, and then I saw some sandwiches I liked real well and I ate about a dozen of them, and then somebody passed around angel food cake so I ate that, and then I didn't have any room for anything else.

I mean, the goddess of joy may get paid well, but where would her operation be without the god of hot showers, the goddess of hot sex, the avatar of angel food cake?

There was also a recipe for Lena's angel food cake with chocolate frosting that sounded delicious.

The building, with its enormous expanse of tables and benches ex- hibiting everything from angel food cake to stalks of corn 14 feet high, seemed to have about as many afternoon visitors as usual, who either hadn't heard the news from the Holstein shed or were contrary enough to be more interested in flowers and vegetables than in corpses.

Forty meters in diameter, looking like a dirty angel food cake, it spun lazily around to provide a full Earth g at the outside.