Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, angel food cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Angel Food Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Angel Food Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Angel food cake, or angel cake, is a type of sponge cake made with egg whites, flour, and sugar. A whipping agent, such as cream of tartar, is commonly added. It differs from other cakes because it uses no butter.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Make ready Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Make ready About 9 large egg whites. It is about 1 1/4 cups
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar, divided
- Make ready 1 cup cake flour. I use Swan brand
- Prepare 1 1/4 teaspoons cream of tartar
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Take 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon salt
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Instructions to make Angel Food Cake:
- Put egg whites in large metal or glass bowl. Let sit to room temperature.
- Sift 1/2 cup sugar and all the flour twice. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place oven rack on lowest position.
- Add cream of tartar and almond extracts and salt to egg whites.
- Beat with mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form.
- Turn mixer on high and teaspoon at a time, add remaining sugar. Beat until stiff peaks form.
- Gradually add flour mixture 1/2 cup at a time by gently folding in. Do not mix vigorously. It will deflate the egg whites.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bake for 30 to 45 minutes.
- Top should be golden brown and feel dry and crumbly.
- Test at 30 minutrs to see if baked through.
- When done, invert cake on top of glass bottle or on sides if using loaf pans. Cool completely.
- Run knife around edges of pan.
- Remove cake. Serve plain or with fruit.
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