As part of our emergency rations, I brought home lots of eggs. So I decided to make angel food cake. Don’t ask me to explain the logic.
The recipe is quite simple, and the result is so clean and tasty.
I used–what else?–epicurious for the recipe.
1 1/2 cups egg whites (11 to 12 large eggs)
1 1/2 cups (150 g) sifted confectioners sugar (sift before measuring)
1 cup (100 g) sifted cake flour (not self-rising; sift before measuring)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
A couple things that I think are important and take the cake from being good to great:
Use fresh eggs.
Let the egg whites sit for a few minutes, such that the egg whites are cool, but not cold (60 degrees).
Sift everything twice. No lumps.
Don’t over stir, even if the mixture is not perfectly homogenous.
Halfway through, I realized that we had put our bundt cake pan into storage. So I put the batter in cupcake tins, filling each a bit more than 3/4 of the way up and baked them for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Ashley actually loved the individually portioned cakes.
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Actually, putting them in muffin tins sounds like a really nice way to server them (even if you have a bundt pan). I've never made angel food cake, but I do really love it, especially with cream and strawberries. We've just got a bunch of Stacey's pita chips and peanut butter and jelly leftover. We did NOT think this hurricane through…
I love when you guys bake and cook! You create such beautiful posts and inspire me to be a little more adventurous. I've never made angel food cake but I want to try now.
Another point for success, your GREAT KITCHENAID mixer. Julia Child knew what she was doing and so do you. Love it. For the yolks, try custard.
Wow good job!! That looks so good, and low cal too, hmm?
if you ask me, that's storm-brilliance!
Oh, yum! this looks delicious
Of course! They were the perfect thing to lighten the mood through the scary storm!
You make me want to use the inside of my oven!!
DId you do anything with the yolks? I never know what to do with them and feel so guilty tossing 11 yolks! The cakes look delish though — a perfect way to bid adieu to summer!