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Angel Food Cake {with Vanilla Bean}
A must have cake recipe! Homemade angel food cake is much better than store-bought or mixes. It's light and fluffy as a cloud, it has the perfect vanilla bean flavor, and it's the perfect base to your favorite sauces and toppings.
👥 12 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 2h 10m⏳ Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 40 min👤 Jaclyn📖 cookingclassy
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- food processor
- oven
- bowl
- mixing bowl
- whisk
- spatula
- pan
- knife
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a food processor, pulse sugar until super fine, about ⏱️ 2 minutes.
2
In a mixing bowl, sift together half of the sugar, the cake flour and the salt.
3
In a separate large mixing bowl, whisk together egg whites, water, vanilla beans, vanilla extract and cream of tartar until well combined, about ⏱️ 2 minutes (the vanilla beans may not separate but that's fine, once sugar is added they should separate).
(126g) cake flour, (sifted)1 cuplarge egg whites, (at room temperature*)12 (430g)
4
Switch to a hand mixer and whip mixture on medium speed while slowly adding remaining sugar to mixture, until medium peaks form**.
5
Sift just enough of the flour mixture in to evenly dust the top of the egg white mixture and using a spatula gently fold flour layer into egg white mixture and continue this process until all of the flour mixture has been incorporated (be sure to work gently with batter so it doesn't deflate and add small amounts of flour mixture at a time).
6
Gently spoon the batter evenly into an ungreased angel food cake pan (do NOT grease the pan, the cake won't rise properly if you do. If you are looking for a good angel food cake pan I have this one here).
7
After ⏱️ 35 minutes begin to check for doneness by inserting a wooden chopstick or skewer halfway down through the cake, it should come out clean*** (mine took ⏱️ 40 minutes).
8
Remove cake from oven and cool upside down on a wire rack (do not leave it upright, it will start to deflate like mine did a little while I was taking pictures. If the pan has feet no need to use the wire rack).
9
Cool at least ⏱️ 1 hour before removing from pan (I ran a sharp knife around the edge to loosen). Cut into slices and serve with whipped cream and strawberries (or fruit sauce, chocolate sauce or topping of choice).
Nutrition Facts
calories
175 kcal
serving Size
1 serving
sugar Content
30 g
sodium Content
108 mg
protein Content
5 g
carbohydrate Content
38 g
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