angel cake

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   a light sponge cake made without egg yolks

   Synonymsangel food cake

   Broadersponge cake

Questions about angel cake

What does angel cake mean?

angel cake means "a light sponge cake made without egg yolks".

What is another word for angel cake?

Close synonyms include angel food cake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angel cake a common word?

angel cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.