The Best Angel Food Cake

Name: The Best Angel Food Cake
Yield: Serves 10 to 12
Ingredients: 1 cup (4 ounces), cake flour, sifted; 1 1/2 cups, sifted granulated sugar (10 1/2 ounces); 12 , large egg whites (1 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons); 1 teaspoon, cream of tartar; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1 1/2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1 1/2 teaspoons, lemon juice; 1/2 teaspoon, almond extract

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1992, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

SEASON 5

SERVES10 to 12

TIME1¼ hours, plus 2 to 3 hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To get an angel food cake recipe for a tall, perfectly shaped cake with a snowy white, tender crumb encased in a thin, delicate, golden crust, we experimented with egg whites, finding no discernable difference in volume between whites beate...

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