Heavenly Angel Food Cake
Heavenly Angel Food Cake might be a good recipe to expand your side dish repertoire. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 182 calories, 5g of protein, and 0g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 10. For 43 cents per serving, this recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up egg whites, sugar, cream of tartar, and a few other things to make it today. 183 people were glad they tried this recipe. It is brought to you by Bakerette. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 55 minutes. Overall, this recipe earns a not so amazing spoonacular score of 20%. Similar recipes include Heavenly Angel Food Cake, Heavenly Angel Food Cake, and Heavenly Angel Food Cake.
Servings: 10
Preparation duration: 20 minutes
Cooking duration: 35 minutes
Ingredients:
1 1/4 teaspoons almond extract
1 cup cake flour, sifted
1 1/4 teaspoons cream of tartar
12 egg whites, at room temperature
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/3 cup warm water
Equipment:
hand mixer
mixing bowl
oven
spatula
kugelhopf pan
wire rack
toothpicks
frying pan
Cooking instruction summary:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.In a medium bowl, sift together flour, 3/4 cup sugar, and salt. Sift together FOUR times. Important! Don't eliminate this step.With an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together egg whites, water, almond extract, and cream of tartar in a large mixing bowl until soft peaks form. Add remaining sugar two tablespoons at a time beating well after each addition.Sift 1/4 cup flour mixture over the egg whites and gently fold in with a spatula. Repeat until all the flour mixture is incorporated.Pour batter in an ungreased 10-inch tube pan. A bundt pan may also be used but the fluted sides can make releasing the cake more difficult. Unlike regular cakes, angel food cake pans should not be greased. This aids in the cake rising by allowing it to crawl up to the surface of the pan.Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick entered in the center of the cake comes out clean.Invert pan on a cooling rack and cool completely upside down before removing from pan. Cooling upside down prevents the cake from falling in on itself.You can use your favorite glaze or top with fruit sauce.
Step by step:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.In a medium bowl, sift together flour, 3/4 cup sugar, and salt. Sift together FOUR times. Important! Don't eliminate this step.With an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together egg whites, water, almond extract, and cream of tartar in a large mixing bowl until soft peaks form.
2. Add remaining sugar two tablespoons at a time beating well after each addition.Sift 1/4 cup flour mixture over the egg whites and gently fold in with a spatula. Repeat until all the flour mixture is incorporated.
3. Pour batter in an ungreased 10-inch tube pan. A bundt pan may also be used but the fluted sides can make releasing the cake more difficult. Unlike regular cakes, angel food cake pans should not be greased. This aids in the cake rising by allowing it to crawl up to the surface of the pan.
4. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick entered in the center of the cake comes out clean.Invert pan on a cooling rack and cool completely upside down before removing from pan. Cooling upside down prevents the cake from falling in on itself.You can use your favorite glaze or top with fruit sauce.
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