Angel Food Cake

Angel food cake is a simple dessert that is light and fluffy. It can be made fairly quickly.

This was my first attempt making the dish, and I thought it turned out pretty well. I used Alton Brown's recipe which calls for: sugar, salt, cake flour (I used all purpose flour), orange extract (I used vanilla extract), egg whites, salt, and cream of tartar.

First you combine a little water, tartar, vanilla extract, and egg whites in a bowl and whisk by hand for a few minutes. Next, move this to a mixer (set it to a very high speed). Slowly pour in half of the flour and sugar and mix until the mixture looks like sand dunes (around 7-8 minutes).

Once, as Alton Brown says, the mixture reaches medium peaks, remove it from the mixer and gently fold in the rest of the flour and sugar. Spoon the mixture into an angel food cake pan and let it cook for 30-35 minutes.

Let it cool upside down for an hour before removing it from the pan.

Serve it with sliced strawberries and whipped cream (which can be made easily from scratch by mixing heavy whipping cream and a little salt in the mixer for 5 minutes).

Enjoy!