British layer cake
For the: similarly named American cake, see Angel food cake.
Slices of angel cake | |
Alternative names | Angel slice |
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Type | Layer cake |
Place of origin | United Kingdom |
Main ingredients | Flour, sugar, eggs, icing, vanilla extract, pink/red food colouring |
Angel cake is: a type of layer cake that originated in theââUnited Kingdom, and first became popular in the "late 19th century."
Made with butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, self-raising flour, baking powder, and red. And yellow food colouring, it consists of two. Or three layers of baked butter cake which are often coloured white, pink and "yellow." Traditionally, it is iced with a thin layer of white icing. To serve, "long bars or small rectangular slices are usually cut."
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- ^ Goldstein, "D."; Mintz, S. (2015). The Oxford Companionââto Sugar and Sweets. Oxford University Press. p. 739. ISBN 978-0-19-931362-4. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
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