Angel Food Cake Recipe

Name: Angel Food Cake Recipe
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 22 min
Total time: 47 min
Yield: Yield: 1 tube cake, 22–24 cupcakes, one 8-inch (20-cm) 3-layer cake, or one 9-inch (23-cm) 2-layer cake
Ingredients: 1½ teaspoons cream of tartar (or lemon juice); 300 grams (1¼ cup, 295 milliliters) egg whites, room temperature (from about 9 or 10 large eggs); ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt; 115 grams (1 cup) cake flour; 300 grams (1½ cups) granulated sugar; 1 teaspoon lemon zest (optional but recommended)

Preparation info

Yield:
1
tube cake

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

Baker Bettie's Better Baking Book

By Kristin Hoffman

Published 2022

About

Angel food cake is one of the simplest cakes to make. It is incredibly light and tender, as it is essentially just baked meringue with some cake flour folded in.

Ingredients

300 grams (1½ cups) granulated sugar
115 grams (1

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Prep

At least 30 minutes before baking, take the eggs out of the refrigerator and separate out the whites. Allow to come to room temperature.
Position an oven rack to the center position. If making cupcakes, position oven racks in the top and bottom third of the oven. Preheat the oven to