Chocolate-Orange Angel Food Cake

Name: Chocolate-Orange Angel Food Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: ¾ cup (3 ounces), cake flour; 1½ cups (10½ ounces), sugar, divided; 12 , large egg whites, room temperature; 1 teaspoon, cream of tartar; ¼ teaspoon, table salt; 1 tablespoon, Grand Marnier; 2 teaspoons, grated orange zest; ½ teaspoon, vanilla extract; 2 ounces, bittersweet chocolate, finely grated

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Angel food cake has a downy soft and incredibly light texture, as well as a mild sweetness that makes it an ideal canvas for flavorful additions, including our favorite: chocolate.

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SERVES12

TIME1½ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

A cookbook recipe exclusively for All-Access members from Everything Chocolate

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We wanted to give this cake an elegant upgrade by incorporating a classic combination of chocolate and orange. We tried simply mixing in chopped bittersweet chocolate, but that was a failure: The chunks of chocolate disrupted the ultradelic...

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