Angel Food Cake I

Description

Homemade angel food cake is worth the work. It is moist, unlike the sweet styrofoam available in the grocery bakery. A tube pan with a removable bottom is highly recommended.

Ingredients

  • 1 ¼ cups cake flour
  • 1 ¾ cups white sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ cups egg whites
  • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

  1. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Mix in cream of tartar
  2. vanilla extract
  3. and almond extract.
  4. Sift together flour
  5. sugar
  6. and salt. Repeat five times.
  7. Gently fold flour mixture into beaten egg whites. Pour batter into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan.
  8. Place the pan in a cold oven. Turn the oven on and set it to 325 degrees F (165degrees C). Bake until cake is golden brown
  9. about 1 hour.
  10. Invert the tube pan and let cake cool to room temperature before removing from the pan.

Servings: 16

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