Never Buy Store Bought Angel Food Cake Again Angel Food Cake Recipes

Steps:

• In a bowl, mix together the confectioner's sugar and the flour. Set aside.
• Next, you must separate the egg whites from the yolks. You will need one and a half cups of egg whites and this always ends up being 12 large eggs for me. (Suggestion - crack each egg into a small cup, and then pour into a measuring cup. That way, if you do happen to break a yolk, you won't ruin the whole batch and have to start over. No egg yolks can be in the egg whites. Save the yolks for something else! I also have better results when I allow the egg whites to come to room temperature, but if you are crunched for time, don't sweat it!).
• Pour the egg whites into a metal bowl (cannot be plastic) and set aside.
• Dump in the cream of tartar, the vanilla extract, the maple extract and salt to the metal bowl of egg whites. Using an electric hand mixer, whip together until soft peaks begin to form - this usually take just a minute or two for me. I can never tell what a "soft peak" is supposed to look like, so I just keep going until it is thicker looking and kind of comes up with the beaters when I pull them out. (If you do not have an electric mixer, you can do this with a whisk. You will not need to go to the gym for any upper body training after this.).
• Add the flour mixture a little at a time and mix with the electric mixer after each addition.
• Add the sugar and mix well together with the electric mixer.
• Pour it all into an ungreased tube cake pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes. I tend to underbake mine just a little, since it will continue to brown slightly, after you remove it from the oven and allow it to cool.
• I usually will run the end of a rubber spatula around the edge of the cake pan, after the cake has cooled slightly and has started to pull away from the sides of the pan. Dump it out onto a cake plate and try not to eat the entire thing while it is warm!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325. In a large bowl beat egg whites till foamy, add the cream of tartar and salt, then beat till soft peaks form.
• Add the vanilla and almond extracts, gradually add the sugar beating till mix is stiff. Sift flour over batter and gently fold it inches
• Fill each ungreased mini-pan to 2/3 full. Bake 20 minutes or until crust looks deep golden brown and cracks feel dry. Do not underbake!
• Immediately invert pan onto two glass bottles, letting cakes cool completely before removing from pan. Loosen sides with nylon or plastic spatulas to prevent scratching.
• Top with chocolate frosting or whipped cream as desired. Add sliced fruits like strawberries, raspberries, or kiwi!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• For the Cake: Place the 12 egg whites in a very large mixing bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
• Sift confectioners' sugar and flour together 3 times.
• Beat egg whites, cream of tartar, and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium to high speed until soft peaks form (tips curl).
• Gradually add 1 cup granulated sugar, about 2 tablespoons at a time, beating until stiff peaks form (tips stand straight).
• Sift about one-fourth of the flour mixture over beaten egg whites; fold in gently. Repeat sifting and folding in the remaining flour mixture three more times, using one-fourth of the flour mixture each time.
• Divide batter in half.
• Fold extract and food coloring into one half.
• Alternately spoon pink and white batters into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan.
• Gently cut through batter with a knife, swirling gently.
• Bake cake on the lowest rack in the preheated 350 degree oven for 40 to 45 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched.
• Immediately invert the cake in the pan, standing the tube pan on its legs or resting the center tube over a tall-necked bottle. Cool thoroughly.
• Remove cake from pan.
• Frost with Pink Peppermint Frosting when cake has cooled thoroughly.
• Serve at room temperature.
• Store any leftover cake in refrigerator.
• For the Pink Peppermint Frosting: Place the 2 egg whites in a bowl.
• Let stand 30 minutes.
• In a 2-quart saucepan mix the 2/3 cup granulated sugar, corn syrup, and water. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil. Boil gently, without stirring, for 5 minutes.
• Beat egg whites using an electric mixer at medium to high speed until soft peaks form (tip curl).
• Slowly add hot syrup to egg whites, pouring in a steady stream, while beating.
• Continue beating until stiff glossy peaks form (tips stand straight).
• Beat in 1/4 teaspoon peppermint extract and enough red food coloring to tint frosting pink.

Steps:

• .Heat oven to 375 degrees.
• Stir together cake flour and confectioner's sugar; set aside.
• In a large mixer bowl, beat egg whites, cream of tartar, and salt until foamy.
• Add the granular sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating at high speed until the meringue holds stiff peaks. (This takes up to 10 minutes.).
• Gently fold in the extracts by hand.
• Sprinkle the flour-confectioner's sugar mixture, 1/4 cup at a time, over the meringue, folding it in gently just until flour-sugar mixture disappears. DO NOT OVER-MIX OR CAKE WILL BECOME TOUGH!
• Push batter into ungreased tube pan, turning it several times to fill pan evenly. Gently cut through the batter with a knife to remove air bubbles.
• Bake 30-35 minutes or until the top springs back when touched lightly with finger.
• Remove from oven and immediately invert the tube over weighted glass bottle; let hang upside down until cake is completely cool (about 2 hours.).
• To remove cooled cake from tube pan, loosen first by moving table knife up and down against side of pan. Next, turn the pan over and hit one side; the cake will slip out onto the platter.