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
Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book period. During the 70s and 80s, "The Australian Women's Weekly" was among the highest-selling magazines in Australia and published a wide range of cake decorating, recipe and meal idea book and magazine titles. There are 108 themed cakes appearing in the original edition, "largely composed of packet butter cake mix, Vienna cream icing and lollies". The cover illustration is of the "train cake", for which it became synonymous — the cookbook is sometimes referred to as "the book with the train on the cover". Some of the more well-known are: In a September 2018 Throwback: Our Childhoods Revisited series interview,