Angel Food Cake

Name: Angel Food Cake
Yield: Serves 10 to 12
Ingredients: 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (4½ ounces), cake flour; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 1 3/4 cups (12¼ ounces), granulated sugar; 12 large, egg whites; 1 1/2 teaspoons, cream of tartar; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2009

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

SERVES10 to 12

TIME1 hour, plus 3 hours cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The key to Angel Food Cake is voluminous, stable egg whites. A mere speck of yolk precludes them from whipping to peaks. We had the best success with either cold or room-temperature egg whites. Cold whites whipped to the same volume as room...

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