Cakes and Frostings

Angel Food Cake

  • 1 cup Cake flour
  • 1 1/3 cups Sugar
  • 1 1/4 cups Egg whites
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons Cream of tartar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 1/4 teaspoon Almond extract

    • Sift flour and 1/2 cup sugar together.Set aside. Place egg whites in mixer bowl and add cream of tartar and salt. On high speed, whip the egg whites until stiff but not dry (2 or 3 minutes). Reduce mixer speed to low. Sift remaining sugar (not sugar-flour mixture) into eggwhites gradually. Manually fold the sugar-flour mixture into egg whites, very gently lifting and turning the batter with a spatula. Fold in vanilla and almond extract. Spoon batter into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 300°F (150°C) about 1 hour. Invert cake pan on wire rack. Allow to stand until cool (about 1 hour).

    This recipe courtesy of the From My Kitchen Cookbook. 

    Contributed by Chris Cody of Fort Worth, TX. 

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