angel's food cake

See also: angel's-food cake

English

Noun

angel's food cake (countable and uncountable, plural angel's food cakes)

1. Alternative form of angel food cake.
   • 1879 May 29, The Memphis Evening Herald, volume IV, number 127 (whole 565), Memphis, Tenn., page [4], column 3:

     Angel’s Food Cake. For sale at Podesta, Malatesta & Co.’s, 252 Main street.

   • 1989, Harold Norse, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 396:

     Again, as we sat on the terrasse of the Café de Paris, where he was eating a large slice of angel’s food cake and drinking coffee, I mentioned that I was broke.

   • 1997, Ed Cray, “A Certain Amount of Respect”, in Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, part I (The Last Progressive), page 61:

     Oldest daughter Virginia recalled with pride that her mother’s angel’s food cakes and her fudgelike penuche were special favorites at charity bake sales and raffles for church and schools.

   • 1998, Anthony Bruno, Double Espresso, Forge, →ISBN, page 96:

     He casually flipped the page and found a slice of angel’s food cake sitting in a puddle of raspberry sauce.

   • 1999, John T. Edge, “Sweet and Sacred”, in A Gracious Plenty, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 266:

     “If you want a slice of angel’s food cake, you’ll have to finish your greens,” came the call from parents.