The Cake That Is an Angel

Give a farm woman a big angel food cake and watch what happens. Without a fairy’s wand, she transforms it into a spectacular dessert. And what a variety of flavors she can add—peach, lemon, mocha and pineapple are classics.

The hostess prides herself on tricks to use when she wants to dress up an angel cake especially for company. Here are recipes for some special sauces culled from files in Farm Journal Test Kitchens and from farm hostesses.