angel food cake

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   a light sponge cake made without egg yolks

   Synonymsangel cake

   Broadersponge cake

Questions about angel food cake

What does angel food cake mean?

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

What is another word for angel food cake?

Close synonyms include angel 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 food cake a common word?

angel food 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.