Angel Food Cake
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Everyday Food, January 2008
- Prep Time 30 minutes
- Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes plus cooling
- Yield Serves 8
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Ingredients
- 1 cup cake flour (spooned and leveled)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 12 large egg whites, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- Berries and Cream, for serving
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place flour and salt in a sieve set over a bowl; sift into bowl, and set aside. With a mixer, beat egg whites on medium-high until foamy, about 1 minute. Add cream of tartar; beat until soft peaks form. Continue to beat, gradually adding sugar; beat until stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes. Add vanilla; beat to combine.
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Gently transfer egg-white
mixture to a large,
wide bowl. In four batches,
using the sieve again,
sift flour mixture over
egg-white mixture. While
turning the bowl, use
a rubber spatula to fold in
the mixture by cutting
down the center and coming
up the sides.
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Gently spoon batter into
an ungreased angel food
cake pan with a removable
bottom; smooth top.
Cut a knife or small spatula
through batter to
release air bubbles. Bake
until cake is golden and
springs back when lightly
pressed, 35 to 40 minutes.
Invert pan; let cool
in pan, 1 hour. Run a
knife around the inside of
the pan and around the
tube to release cake, and
unmold. Use knife to
release cake from bottom
of pan, and remove.
Variations
Craving chocolate? Replace 1/4 cup cake flour with 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder; reduce vanilla extract to 1 teaspoon.
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Within the past month, I have made 2 angel food cakes. A Betty Crocker box mix, and Martha's. The box one was sweeter, a more vanilla taste, a lot easier to make, with less clean up. A mix costs about $3.00 and I purchased a dozen of eggs for $1.70 and had the other ingredients at home. If you have the time and want to make something with the kids, go for it! It will be fun to make, with close results.
love it
First effort at making an Angel Food Cake from scratch, and it turned out so well! I'll never buy another mix again. I did have to cook it abou 15 min. more - watch for the golden brown finish.
First effort at making an Angel Food Cake from scratch, and it turned out so well! I'll never buy another mix again. I did have to cook it abou 15 min. more - watch for the golden brown finish.
Ooops. Just read the helpful hint.....that's what happens when you are trying to research recipes with a wriggly child on your lap. ;)
Can you add cocoa powder to make this chocolatey for a children's birthday party? My son can't eat dairy.
Can you add cocoa powder to make this chocolatey for a children's birthday party? My son can't eat dairy.
Yummy, lowfat and delicious! you can't go wrong with this recipe! Will definetely be making this one again! for a cheap topping I used the chocolate redi-whip in a can. All my guests loved it! And once you have all of the ingredients, it's alot cheaper than buying the cake in a store! Thanks Martha!
I tried to make this gluten free and I too found it to be tough. I am not sure if it was the flour or the fact that I may have also folded too much but next time I am going to try both adding xantham gum and folding less. I love martha but I am allergic to gluten so I keep trying to do things my way and some recipes work better than others.
how much flour i can use if i don?Ǭ
I must have overmixed the batter since my cake turned out a little tough and hard to cut. I will try mixing in the flour in only two batches next time. But it was still delicious, especially with raspberries and whipped cream!
Very easy and very very good!