angel cake
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- noun
- /ˈeɪndʒəl keɪk/
- UK
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pastel ángel
- It's a swell place To make an angel cake.
- white angel cake
There's nothing inside except delicious Angel cake in vengeance.
- There's nothing inside except delicious Angel cake in vengeance.
Examples
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Today we are going To make an angel cake.
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If this was an angel cake, it would fall like a board.
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I suppose First things first though, little Angel cake for the journey.
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"Just a plain angel cake, as light as you can make it."
Fiction book (2000) -
You'll come around for dinner, and I'll cook you a beautiful angel cake.
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Hi, angel cake.
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There's nothing inside except delicious Angel cake in vengeance.
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What's up, angel cakes?
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Foaming properties of the protein isolate can be advantageously utilized in whipped toppings, angel cakes, confectionery, and chiffon mixes.
Academic text (2014) -
For dessert, I made a fluffy angel cake topped with fresh berries.
Synonyms
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1.0
A sweet baked food made from flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
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1.8
A light, airy cake that uses eggs, flour and sugar without butter or oil
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A very light cake made with only egg whites and no butter
A light, soft cake flavored with vanilla
Antonyms
How Airy
Surface Forms
Morphology
angel + cake
A learner who knows 'angel' and 'cake' will readily infer this is a kind of cake and likely expect a delicate, light or 'pure' quality from the modifier 'angel'. However, the specific recipe detail (e.g., made only with egg whites, no yolks) is not directly predictable from the constituents, so the meaning is only partly derivable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Angel cake may come from the idea that the angel part shows how very light, white, and soft the cake looks, like something angels would eat. Because it is made only with egg whites, the cake is very airy, so 'angel cake' now means 'a light sponge made without egg yolks'.