Monday, May 28, 2007
American Dessert Idol. Well Angel Food Cake with Strawberry Whipped Cream came in first.
Pre-Memorial Day Dessert.
The problem was, the whipped cream part was in the fridge at the party and no one knew about it. The cake got eaten up, especially when I mentioned that I had made it from scratch. One person couldn't believe me, but really, Angel Food cake is super duper easy.
Recipe: Sift together (twice) 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1 cup cake flour in a bowl. Set aside. Separate 11 eggs, dumping the yolks on your vegetable garden. Put the whites in your Martha mixer and add 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar and 2 teaspoons vanilla or 1 teaspoon coconut extract. Beat at medium high until foamy. Then add, a little bit at a time, 1 cup sugar. When it reaches the hard peak phase, turn your mixer off and fold in 1/3 of the flour/sugar mixture. Stirring real slow, gradually add the rest of the flour/sugar mixture. Then dump into one of the angel food cake pans. Run your spatula through once to even out the air bubbles. Bake in your VisiBake oven for 40 minutes at about 350 (in my case, that means when the flames are just so). Invert and let cool for two hours. Voila. Delicious, fluffy Angel Food cake!
I just had a gay moment there.
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Pre-Memorial Day Dessert.
The problem was, the whipped cream part was in the fridge at the party and no one knew about it. The cake got eaten up, especially when I mentioned that I had made it from scratch. One person couldn't believe me, but really, Angel Food cake is super duper easy.
Recipe: Sift together (twice) 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 1 cup cake flour in a bowl. Set aside. Separate 11 eggs, dumping the yolks on your vegetable garden. Put the whites in your Martha mixer and add 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar and 2 teaspoons vanilla or 1 teaspoon coconut extract. Beat at medium high until foamy. Then add, a little bit at a time, 1 cup sugar. When it reaches the hard peak phase, turn your mixer off and fold in 1/3 of the flour/sugar mixture. Stirring real slow, gradually add the rest of the flour/sugar mixture. Then dump into one of the angel food cake pans. Run your spatula through once to even out the air bubbles. Bake in your VisiBake oven for 40 minutes at about 350 (in my case, that means when the flames are just so). Invert and let cool for two hours. Voila. Delicious, fluffy Angel Food cake!
I just had a gay moment there.
