Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Angel food cake

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, angel food cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Angel food cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Angel food cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Angel food cake is a low fat cake recipe made mostly from egg whites, cake flour, and sugar. It's pristine white on the inside with a chewy light brown crumb around the exterior. 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.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook angel food cake using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Angel food cake:

1. Prepare 360 ml egg whites (11-12 eggs)
2. Take 125 g plain flour
3. Prepare 300 g caster sugar
4. Take 1 tsp cream of tartar
5. Take 1/2 tsp salt
6. Make ready 1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
7. Make ready 2 tsp vanilla extract
8. Get 1/2 tsp rose water or your favourite extract (almond, orange)

A tube pan with a removable bottom is highly recommended. You can make the Best Angel Food Cake ever with just six ingredients! This cake is light, airy and SO much better than any store-bought version! Homemade angel food cake requires just seven simple ingredients, which is why it's important that you use exactly what this recipe calls for.

Steps to make Angel food cake:

1. Sift the flour with half the amount of the sugar into a bowl. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/gas 4. Get a two part angel food cake tube pan ready but do not grease it.
2. Separate the eggs while cold – it’s much easier (some ideas for what to do with the egg yolks in the preface above) and bring them to room temperature.
3. Place them in the bowl of a standing mixer with a balloon whisk attachment, or in a very large bowl if using a hand held mixer with a whisk. Beat until foamy.
4. Add the cream of tartar, salt and the lemon juice and continue until soft peaks. Start adding the remaining sugar, by a tablespoon, and continue beating until the meringue is stiff and glossy and the sugar is used up. Add the vanilla extract and your flavour and beat in.
5. Fold the flour and sugar mix into the meringue in four goes, using a spatula or a hand whisk – be careful not to deflate the mix.
6. Pour it into the tin, cut a spatula through the batter to smooth it out and remove any air pockets.
7. Bake for 40-45 minutes until a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean and the sponge springs back when gently pressed.
8. Immediately invert the tin and prop it up on an upturned bowl or small pot, so the cake is suspended in the tin. Leave it to cool completely.
9. When cold, run a palette knife around the sides of the tin to release the cake, then run it along the bottom and around the tube to unmould it. Place on a serving dish and decorate with strawberries, cream, and all things summery.

This cake is light, airy and SO much better than any store-bought version! Homemade angel food cake requires just seven simple ingredients, which is why it's important that you use exactly what this recipe calls for. Here's what we'll use to make angel cake from scratch Every respectable angel food cake requires two things: height and flavor. Once you understand the basic science behind the classic cake, it's easy to strike the perfect balance of sweetness and airy. Angel food cake is one of the most versatile desserts we know.

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