Angel Food Cake

If you are watching your fat intake, this is the ideal cake. It calls for no butter, and egg whites are the only leavening. Angel food cakes are traditionally baked in tube pans, which help them to bake evenly, and they are cooled upside down. Some pans have small “feet,” so you can invert the pan and it will stand above the counter, eliminating the problem of trapped moisture as the cake cools. But if your pan doesn’t, slipping the tube of the pan over the neck of a wine bottle works well,