Angel Food Cake

"Homemade Angel Food Cake....better than the store bought!"
 
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Ready In:
1hr 10mins
Ingredients:
6
Serves:
12
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ingredients

  • 12 egg whites (1 1/2 cups)
  • 1 12 cups sugar
  • 1 14 cups sifted flour
  • 12 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1 12 teaspoons almond extract
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directions

  • Beat egg whites by hand; add salt and beat again.
  • Add tartar and beat with mixer until stiff.
  • Fold in sifted flour and sugar (sifted together).
  • Add almond extract, mix, and bake for 1 hour at 225 (in an Angel pan UNGREASED).
  • Place upside- down to cool.

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Reviews

  1. Steph, great cake, loved the almond and I did add 2 tsp. Used the leftover yolks in a breakfast casserole. The cake is great plain, but I did make a lemony glaze for it. Super! Next time I will try a chocolate one.
     
  2. My first angel food cake ever and it was a total success. Thanks so much for a great go-to recipe!
     
  3. This cake's flavor is good but it will not rise enough to create the light, airy texture we look for in an angel food cake. I prepared & baked this cake as directed but it's very clear that the oven temperature called for (225°) is much too low. The lowest I've ever baked angel food is 325°. :( After an hour the cake had only risen about 3/4 of an inch and it was still mostly white with only a slight hint of browning starting to occur. I turned up the oven temp to 350° without removing the cake & baked it another 10 minutes or so. The almond flavoring is much better than the usual vanilla & we'll continue to use that in the future, with another recipe. For anyone else who may try this recipe, I would recommend using an oven temp of 325°. This may just be a typo in the recipe, but since another reviewer quite obviously had the desired outcome, I can't say for sure. I made this cake to serve with a cookathon tag for recipe #330075.
     
  4. I cut this recipe in half so it didn't fill the pan. It tasted ok, but was sticky and heavy. Not quite sure what I did wrong. I had a little trouble getting it out of the pan.
     
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