Angel Food Cake
Angel Food Cake

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, angel food cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Angel food cake is a low fat cake recipe made mostly from egg whites, cake flour, and sugar. It's pristine white on the inside with a chewy light brown crumb around the exterior. Angel food cake, or angel cake, is a type of sponge cake made with egg whites, flour, and sugar.

Angel Food Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Angel Food Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have angel food cake using 8 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Angel Food Cake:
  1. Make ready Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  2. Take About 9 large egg whites. It is about 1 1/4 cups
  3. Take 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, divided
  4. Take 1 cup cake flour. I use Swan brand
  5. Prepare 1 1/4 teaspoons cream of tartar
  6. Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  7. Get 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
  8. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon salt

A tube pan with a removable bottom is highly recommended. An Angel Food Cake, or Angel Cake, has a sweet golden brown crust with a soft and spongy snowy white interior. Every respectable angel food cake requires two things: height and flavor. Once you understand the basic science behind the classic cake, it's easy to strike the perfect balance of sweetness and airy.

Instructions to make Angel Food Cake:
  1. Put egg whites in large metal or glass bowl. Let sit to room temperature.
  2. Sift 1/2 cup sugar and all the flour twice. Set aside.
  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place oven rack on lowest position.
  4. Add cream of tartar and almond extracts and salt to egg whites.
  5. Beat with mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form.
  6. Turn mixer on high and teaspoon at a time, add remaining sugar. Beat until stiff peaks form.
  7. Gradually add flour mixture 1/2 cup at a time by gently folding in. Do not mix vigorously. It will deflate the egg whites.
  8. Spoon into ungreased bunt pan or loaf pan. Do not grease! This needs to climb sides while baking. If greased it can not rise to be fluffy.
  9. I use a 10 inch tube pan. Make sure your pans are big enough. This rises high when baking. I use 2 loaf pans also.
  10. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes.
  11. Top should be golden brown and feel dry and crumbly.
  12. Test at 30 minutrs to see if baked through.
  13. When done, invert cake on top of glass bottle or on sides if using loaf pans. Cool completely.
  14. Run knife around edges of pan.
  15. Remove cake. Serve plain or with fruit.

Homemade angel food cake requires just seven simple ingredients, which is why it's important that you use exactly what this recipe calls for. They'll send you straight to heaven. This moist angel food cake is amaze on its own, but it's even better with our strawberry whipped cream. Angel food cake is just a European sponge cake that immigrated to the United States and adopted the Angel food cake was ahead of its time. Or behind the times, depending on your views about fat.

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