Yellow Angel Cake

Name: Yellow Angel Cake
Ingredients: ½ tsp. vanilla; 1½ c. sifted cake flour; ½ tsp. orange extract; ¾ tsp. cream of tartar; ¼ tsp. salt; ½ tsp. almond extract; 6 eggs (about), separated (you need ½ c. yolks, ¾ c. whites); ½ c. cold water; 1⅓ c. sugar

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook

By Nell B. Nichols

Published 1972

About

For a fancy company cake, frost with confectioners sugar frosting and trim with colored gumdrops, cut and shaped like flowers with fingers

Ingredients

6 eggs (about), separated (you need ½ c. yolks, ¾ c. whites)
½ c. cold water
1⅓ c.

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Beat egg yolks until very thick and lemon colored. Add water. Beat until thick. Add sugar gradually, beating constantly, about 10 minutes with electric mixer at highest speed. Fold in flavorings.
Sift flour and salt together at least 3 times. Carefully fold into egg yolk mixture.
Beat egg whites until foamy. Add cream of tartar. Beat until stiff, just