Recipe: Angel Food Cake
If you've never had angel food cake, it's amazing. It's light and fluffy and one of my absolute favorites. I don't make it often, though, because I can't really decorate it. It would collapse under fondant or buttercream, so you can't decorate it with anything heavier than whipped cream. Angel Food Cake: 10 egg whites 1 cup (200g) sugar 1 cup (125g) cake flour (or regular flour) 1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar 1 tsp vanilla extract or 1 tbsp vanilla sugar pinch of salt Separate your eggs and add the cream of tartar and salt and begin whipping it. Once you have a bit of air whipped in the egg whites, add sugar very slowly. No more than a tablespoon or two at a time. Continue to whip your egg whites until you reach stiff peaks. Get as much air in there as possible. Fold in vanilla. Add with the sugar if using vanilla sugar. Sift flour and add to meringue only a couple tablespoons at a time. No more than a quarter cup at once. Gently fold the flour into the meringue. Onc...