Angel food cake
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Read about sponge and foam cakes in the BrightCulinary Book
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Ingredients
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Line the pan with crumpled parchment paper; angel food cake is extremely sticky.
- 5 whole eggs
- ½ tsp cream of tartar
Separate the eggs into a big bowl, add the cream of tartar and whip to stiff-ish peaks.
- ¾ cup sugar
- salt
- vanilla
Beat in the sugar until the meringue is quite stiff; mix in a pinch of salt and a splash of vanilla.
- 60 g flour
Cut and fold in the flour, scraping down the bowl, until homogeneous; overworking deflates the foam.
Pour into the loaf pan. Bake angel food only in narrow pans, loaves or tubes; too wide and it collapses in the middle.
Variation: instead of folding, beat the flour in with the electric mixer, stopping to scrape down the sides, about 25 seconds total until homogeneous; do not overdo it.