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Homemade Angel Food Cake

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Homemade Angel Food Cake, a light delicious cake.  Fill it with some whipped cream and fresh fruit. The perfect after dinner dessert.

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries/anitalianinmykitchen.com

If you remember, last week I was battling the blackberry bush vines picking some juicy, delicious blackberries.  I made some yummy Blackberry Mini Pies to serve for our little friend/family get together.

I figured I might as well get as many as I could because there was no way I was going back to those wild bushes for more punishment, even though I must say the berries were definitely worth it!

This is a cake that brings back some wonderful Canadian memories, my mother loved this cake.  It is such a wonderfully light cake.  A cake that I thought would be perfect for my Italian friends.

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries/anitalianinmykitchen.com

Which I discovered was something they had never tried before, a cake made with egg whites.  The perfect cake to be smothered with whipped cream and berries or any fruit of choice or naked if you prefer.

A delicious Homemade Angel Food Cake.

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries/anitalianinmykitchen.com

I made this cake with an old recipe of my mother’s.  I used my stand up mixer, my mother used her Sunbeam mixer that I am sure she had from almost the time she got married.  That thing was as tough as she was!

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries/anitalianinmykitchen.com

I beat the egg whites, lemon juice (by the way did you know lemon juice is the perfect replacement for cream of tartar?) and vanilla until soft peaks formed, then I added sugar and then just folded in the flour mixture a little at a time.

Baked it in my tube pan,  and don’t forget to let it cool upside down.  At this point unfortunately you will have to imagine the cake in the pan, the cake out of the oven, the cake before frosted, because unfortunately  yours truly deleted the pics.

But I have to say it is an easy enough Homemade Angel Food Cake Recipe that I hope you will enjoy!

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries/anitalianinmykitchen.com

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries/anitalianinmykitchen.com
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Homemade Angel Food Cake

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries.
Prep Time30 mins
Cook Time45 mins
Total Time1 hr 15 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 10 servings
Calories: 154kcal
Author: An Italian in my kitchen

Ingredients

  • 1 cup flour 120 grams
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt 1.4 grams
  • 1 1/4 cups sugar divided 281 grams
  • 8 egg whites room temperature
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice 2.36 grams
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla 5 ml
  • FROSTING
  • 2 cups cream (whipping or whole) 480 grams
  • fine sugar to taste
  • berries of choice

Instructions

  • Pre-heat oven to 350° (175° celisius).
  • Sift together flour, salt and 1/4 cup sugar 3 times.
  • In a large bowl beat egg whites, lemon juice and vanilla on medium speed until soft peaks form, gradually add the 1 cup sugar (a little at a time), continue beating until stiff peaks form (don't over beat). Fold in flour (quarter cup at a time), gently fold until combined (do not over fold). Spoon into ungreased 9 inch tube pan. Gently cut through batter with a metal knife to eliminate air bubbles. Bake for approximately 40-45 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan upside down. Remove from pan and frost with whipped cream (whip cream with a couple of tablespoons of sugar (if desired) until stiff, top with fresh berries or fruit. Enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 154kcal

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries/anitalianinmykitchen.com

Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries./anitalianinmykitchen.com
Homemade Angel Food Cake, an easy delicious made from scratch cake recipe. Best with a simple whipped cream filling and fruits and berries.
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  1. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful cake. Never made angel food cake from scratch. What is the size of your tube pan? didn’t you have a problem removing the cake from the pan since it was ungreased?

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  2. Angel cake is my favorite, it’s kinder to the waist. I’ve never tried making it myself but time to change that with your delicious recipe. Thanks for sharing “_

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  8. Angel food cake is a great option to really highlight a fruit flavor! Blackberries are a great option for that!

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  16. Perfect timing, Rosemary! I have a jar of egg whites in the freezer that I need to use up….this will be perfect! Your pictures make my mouth water—beautiful!

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  18. I’ve never made angel food cake from scratch. I’m not sure why. Your version looks delicious and I love the whipped cream and fruit topping.

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  19. Oh looks wonderful! One of my favourite kinds of cakes – yet a cake I have never tried to make! I will have to! 🙂

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  20. I am stuck on your lovely photos ! They make me feel like Christmas is around the corner with the beautiful white cover.

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  24. This cake is beautiful! I love blackberries. Also, great tip about substituting lemon juice for cream of tartar – I didn’t know that!

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  27. Your cake looks sooooo good, moist and fluffy! Never had Angel Food cake before but I have to make one, soon. Thanks for sharing it!

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  39. My oldest son always loved an Angel Food Cake with whipped cream frosting. I love the lightness of it. Also it makes a great base for a Strawberry shortcake. This is a perfect cake for any occasion. Great Pictures!! My daughter is letting me borrow her Canon for a few days but her lens are beh! She bought the camera and lens from an amateur photographer friend. I had dreams of practicing my “M” mode. Oh well — Have a great weekend!!

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  40. This looks like pure heaven (angel pun not intended). I love the simplicity of this dessert – I’ll take a cake like this over chocolate any day!

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  45. Hi Rosemary! This looks fab! I so know what you mean with the blackberry bush – we’ve got one in our backyard that I’ve been fighting with trying to get nice juicy blackberries off of. It’s so worth it in the end when we get to make things like though, isn’t it?

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