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Default Does Anyone Still Make Angel Food Cakes From "Scratch"?

Bob Terwilliger wrote:
> djs wrote:
>
>>> My opinion is that angel food cake is the most flavorless cake in the
>>> world, regardless of whether it's made from scratch or made from a mix.

>> You've either never had a good angel food cake or you've only eaten
>> strongly flavored cakes, like chocolate, which makes a mild flavored angel
>> food cake seem tasteless. I know a woman who doesn't like vanilla ice
>> cream because she says it has no flavor. It does too have flavor, as does
>> an angel food cake.

>
> What common cake has less flavor than angel food cake?
>
> Bob
>

Interesting. I generally tilt toward VERY flavorful food, but I
like angel food cake. I wonder why? I also wonder why angel food
cake has not traditionally had as many variations in flavor as
pound cake has.

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Jean B.