Angel Surprise Cake

Name: Angel Surprise Cake
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 225 g icing sugar, sifted twice; 2 tbsp lemon juice (or orange); ½ tsp cream of tartar; 180 g white caster sugar; 1 tsp vanilla extract; orange food colour paste; everlasting flowers; pink food colour paste; pinch of salt; finely grated zest of 1 unwaxed lemon (or orange); 1½ tsp cream of tartar; 50 g white marshmallows, chopped; 10 egg whites, at room temperature; 140 g plain flour, sifted twice; 1 egg white; ½ tsp salt

Angel Cake

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

I made this for my teenage daughter’s recent birthday and everyone shrieked with delight when she cut into it. The sweet cake (popular in the United States) contains no fat, so needs to be eaten on the day.

Ingredients

For the Cake

225 g icing sugar, sifted twice
140 g plain flour, sifted twice

Americas
United States
Cake
Birthday
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/fan 150°C/325°F/gas mark 3. Use a 23cm springform cake tin, or angel cake tin; there is no need to butter it. Place the icing sugar in one bowl and the flour in another.

In a large, clean, degreased bowl (wipe the bowl first with half a