Lemon Angel Food Cake

Gladys’ Bakery ships its famous angel food cakes nationwide on Goldbelly! Angel food cakes are as Southern as you can get. The first appearance of the angel food cake was in the cookbook “The Kentucky Housewife” written by Lattice Bryan in 1839. Now, nearly two centuries later, these angel food cakes are still a Southern classic, and Gladys’ Bakery makes some of the best.

This Lemon Angel Food Cake is a delicate light citrus flavor and sunny color. Gladys says “…be aware that one slice will lead to another and another and another”…

Opened in 1972 in a rural Texas hamlet 100 miles from San Antonio and Houston, Gladys’ Bakery is famous for its Czech-style fruitcakes. Founder Gladys Farek, a mother of 6 girls, was looking for a creative outlet and began baking bread, cookies, and pies; however, it was when she made her first fruitcake (and later, a world record-sized, Texas-shaped fruitcake) that a legend was born. Decades later, the Weimar, Texas, bakery is Texas proud, loading its hefty fruitcakes with fresh Texas pecans and none of the usual raisins, dates, or spices.