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, Cook's Country TV

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Over seven weeks in the kitchen, we baked more than 100 angel food cakes to discover, once and for all, what matters, what doesn't, and how to achieve perfection.

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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