angel foods

Noun

angel food (countable and uncountable, plural angel foods)

1. (attributive, especially, in-compounds) Angel food cake, a type of sponge cake made with beaten egg whites and without butter.
   • The most gorgeous of angel foods. And yet so simple and sure, anyone can do it. Complete — All ingredients, including eggs, are in the package. No eggs to separate. No yolks left over. The package contains more than a dozen egg whites[…]1952 September 15, “LIFE”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 63
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angel, food.
   • Rugs were laid out covering the grass in Archangel Grace's private garden and all sorts of delicious angel foods were piled high — cloudberry biscuits, honey sandwiches, towers of rainbow jelly and big jugs of star fruit lemonade.2013 August 1, Michelle Misra, Angel Wings: Secrets and Sapphires, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN