Name: Blueberry Angel Food Dream
Yield: Serves 16
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups [480 ml] heavy cream; 2 tsp pure vanilla extract; ⅓ cup [65 g] granulated sugar; Fresh blueberries for serving; 2 cups [250 g] fresh or frozen blueberries, a handful reserved for garnish; 1½ tsp pure vanilla extract; 1¼ tsp cream of tartar; 12 egg whites, at room temperature; 1 cup [120 g] cake flour, sifted; ¼ tsp table salt; 1¼ cups [250 g] granulated sugar; ¼ cup [50 g] packed light brown sugar

Preparation info

Serves
16

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vintage Baker

By Jessie Sheehan

Published 2018

About

I love angel food cake for its bright white, tight crumb and its very vanilla flavor. I also love that if you frost it with brown sugar whipped cream, you can call it “Angel Food Dream.” The name is from Learn to Bake...You’ll Love It (1947) and the recipe is from The Swans Down Cake Manual (1929). I decided to eliminate the almond extract and increase the amount of vanilla—my affection for deeply vanilla