 Angel food cake is a type of foam cake | |
| Type | Cake |
|---|---|
| Main ingredients | Flour,egg whites |
Foam cakes arecakes with very little (if any)fatty material such as butter, oil or shortening. Foam, sponge or unshortened cakes are distinguished by their large proportion of foamed eggs and/or egg whites to a small proportion of sugar and wheat flour.[1]
Foam cakes are leavened primarily by the air that is beaten into the egg whites that they contain.[2] They differ frombutter cakes, which contain shortening, andbaking powder orbaking soda for leavening purposes. Foam cakes are typically airy, light and spongy.[2]
After it is baked, the cake and the pan are flipped down on a sheet pan with parchment paper in order for them to cool down at the same rate.[3]
Examples of foam cakes areangel food cake,[4]meringue,genoise, andchiffon cake.
