Chocolate Angel Food Cake with Chocolate Glaze
- Ready In:
- 1hr 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
1 10inch cake
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups superfine sugar (if not available or you just want to make your own, put granulated sugar into blender and whirl unti)
- 3⁄4 cup cake flour
- 1⁄4 cup dutch process cocoa
- 2 cups egg whites (about 16 large)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
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Chocolate Glaze
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chips or small pieces
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1⁄4 cup water
directions
- Place rack in center of oven and 15 minutes before baking, preheat to 375°.
- Divide sugar in half.
- Sift one half 3 times.
- Set aside.
- Sift the other half of sugar with the flour and cocoa 3 times.
- Set aside.
- Put egg whites in 4 quart grease-free bowl and beat on low speed with electric mixer until foamy.
- Add cream of tartar, vanilla and salt and increase speed to medium.
- Add the 3/4 cup sugar, one T at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Continue beating on medium until whites have increased their volume fivefold and hold their shape but are still shiny and moist.
- Gently and thoroughly fold in flour mixture, by thirds.
- Pour into ungreased 10" tube pan.
- Smooth the surface and cut through batter 5 or 6 times with a rubber spatula to break large air pockets.
- Bake 30-35 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Invert over a narrow-necked bottle and allow to cool.
- When completely cooled use a knife to loosen it from the side of the pan and turn out on wire rack.
- Drizzle Chocolate Glaze over top and allow to run down sides of cake.
- Chocolate Glaze: Combine chocolate, butter and water in bowl and microwave on high for 2-3 minutes, stirring once a minute until smooth.
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sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.