Angel Food Cake with Fresh Strawberries

Name: Angel Food Cake with Fresh Strawberries
Yield: Makes one 10-inch Cake
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon pure almond extract; ½ teaspoon salt; 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice; ½ teaspoon cream of tartar; 1 cup cake flour, not self-rising; 10 large egg whites (about 1¼ cups); Grated zest of 1 lemon; 2 pints strawberries, rinsed, hulled, and sliced; 1¼ cups granulated sugar; 2 tablespoons honey

Preparation info

Makes one
10 inch
Cake

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Lighter, Quicker, Better

By Richard Sax and Marie Simmons

Published 2000

About

We’ve cut back a bit on the amount of sugar usually found in angel food cake recipes and flavored the batter with a touch of grated lemon zest.

Ingredients

1 cup cake flour, not self-rising
1¼ cups granulated sugar
½

Americas
United States
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Place the bottom oven rack at the lowest position and remove the middle rack. Heat the oven to 350°F. Have ready a 10-inch tube pan, preferably with legs around the rim, perfectly clean and free of any traces of grease.
Sift together the cake flour,