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{{short description|British layer cake}}
{{For|the similarly named American cake|Angel food cake}}
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'''Angel [[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 sweetbaked [[spongebutter cake]] which isare often coloured white, pink and yellow. Traditionally, it is iced with a thin layer of white [[whiteIcing cream(food)|icing]]. To It is traditionally sold either inserve, 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==
* [[AngelList foodof cakecakes]]
* [[Butter cake]]▼
* [[Layer cake]]
* [[Victoria sponge|Victoria sponge cake]]
 
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[[Category:British cakes]]
[[Category:Layer cakes]]
▲* [[Category:Butter cakecakes]]
 
 
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