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Line 1: {{short description\|British layer cake}} {{For\|the similarly named American cake\|Angel food cake}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox ~~prepared~~ food \| name = Angel cake ~~\| image = File:Coco Raspberry Marble Vegan Angel Cake (3732550382).jpg~~ \| image_size = 300px \| image = Homemade Angel Slice Cake Stock Photo (48754448236).jpg ~~\| imagesize =~~ \| caption = ~~A slice~~Slices of angel cake \| alternate_name = Angel slice \| country = [[United Kingdom]] Line 17 ⟶ 18: \| other = }} '''Angel [[cake]]''' ~~(or ''Angel food cake''; not to be confused with [[United States\|American]] [[Angel food cake]])~~ is a type of [[layer cake~~\|layered sponge cake]] [[dessert~~]] that originated in the [[United Kingdom]],<ref name="Goldstein Mintz 2015 p. 739">{{cite book \| last=Goldstein \| first=D. \| last2=Mintz \| first2=S. \| title=The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets \| publisher=Oxford University Press \| year=2015 \| isbn=978-0-19-931362-4 \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XPNgBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT739 \| access-date=May 26, 2017 \| page=739}}</ref> and first became popular in the late 19th century.{{Citation needed\|date=April 2024}} Made with [[butter]], [[caster sugar]], [[egg]]s, [[vanilla]] [[extract]], [[self-raising flour]], [[baking powder]], and red and yellow [[food colouring]], it consists of two or three layers of ~~sweet~~baked [[~~sponge~~butter cake]] which isare often coloured white, pink and yellow. Traditionally, it is iced with a thin layer of white ~~cream~~[[Icing (food)\|icing]]. To ~~It is traditionally sold either in~~serve, long bars or small rectangular slices are usually cut. The cake has won many awards, most notably the 'English Cake of the Year' in 1986. The largest recorded Angel cake was 1 metre in length and 50 centimetres in width, which was baked in the English town of [[Bakewell]].<ref name=allrecipes>{{cite web\|title=Pink angel sponge cake\|url=http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/5164/pink-angel-sponge-cake.aspx?o_is=SR\|accessdate=7 August 2015}}</ref> ==See also== * [[~~Angel~~List ~~food~~of ~~cake~~cakes]] * [[Butter cake]]▼ * [[Layer cake]] * [[Victoria sponge\|Victoria sponge cake]] * {{portal-inline\|Cakes}} ==References== Line 36 ⟶ 32: [[Category:British cakes]] [[Category:Layer cakes]] ▲* [[Category:Butter ~~cake~~cakes]]