Angel cake Angel cake Angel cake (or "Angel food cake"; not to be confused with American Angel food cake) is a type of layered sponge cake dessert that originated in the United 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 sweet sponge cake which is often coloured white, pink and yellow with a thin layer of white cream. It is traditionally sold either in long bars or small slices. The cake has won many
Tompouce pastry cream when trying to cut a piece off, makes this difficult and messy, inspiring the humorous article "Hoe eet je een tompoes?" 'How do you eat a tompoes?'. An easier, if slightly less dignified, way of eating a tompouce is to take the frosted top layer off the pastry and hold it one hand, with the bottom half in the other and then take sequential bites, one from the top and then one from the bottom. Even then, the whipped cream tends to squashed out onto the hand. The name of Tom Poes, a cartoon character by Marten Toonder,