National Angel Food Cake Day – October 10

Think angel food cake is a recent invention? Well, you’d be thinking wrong. Angel food cake has been around a very long time, and the author of The American Pastry Cook, Jessup Whitehead, who goes into detail about its origins way back in 1894, and makes you appreciate this gem of a cake.

Read more about the history of Angel Food Cake from my Old School Pastry blog.