This cake gets its angelic base from egg whites, which are whipped into fluffy clouds in a stand mixer.
The dry ingredients are then folded in by hand.
While you can make angel food cake in any tube pan, it sure makes it easy to have a pan made for this specific purpose. I bought this affordable one on amazon after seeing it was the recommended choice from the rigorous testing of lots of brands and styles at America’s Test Kitchen. I buy pretty much everything they tell me to.
It bakes up with a beautiful golden crust
Now you’ll notice my pan has little “feet” on it. Many angel food cake recipes will tell you to place your pan upside-down over a bottle, but if you buy a pan that has feet, it makes this part super easy. Angel food cake needs to cool upside-down like this to let the structure of the cake develop and this prevents it from sinking.
When it’s all cooled, you can run a knife around the edge and pop it out of the pan.
Homemade Angel food cake is a favorite around here with strawberry shortcake, but we’ll use any good fruit we can get our hands onto. I’m using some fresh peaches from my Dad’s tree that I had frozen last summer and they were perfection.
If you’ve never made homemade angel food, I hope you’ll give this one a try!
