How to Cook Appetizing Lemon Angel Food Cake

Lemon Angel Food Cake. Remove the cake from the oven and invert the pan on a cooling rack until cool. This American cake is incredibly light as it's made with whisked egg whites and no fat. Mary Berry decorates her version with homemade lemon curd and passion fruit seeds.

Adding preserved lemon juice to lemon curd is the brilliant brainchild of Samantha Kincaid, the pastry chef of the restaurant High Street on Hudson. In this recipe, the curd is lightened with a little whipped cream and used to frost and fill a lemon-flavored angel food cake. It's a stunning dessert that's bright. You can have Lemon Angel Food Cake using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemon Angel Food Cake

1. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of egg whites about 10 to 12 eggs.
2. It's 1 1/2 teaspoons of cream of tartar.
3. It's 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla.
4. It's 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
5. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of lemon zest.
6. It's 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
7. It's 1 cup of cake flour.

Remember Mom's heavenly angel food cake? Gently run a knife through the center of the batter to remove any air bubbles. A neighbor gave me this recipe years ago and it's been in flavor rotation ever since. Tips for Angel Food Cake: DON'T grease the cake pan or the batter will not rise well.

Lemon Angel Food Cake instructions

1. Preheat 350.
2. Food process sugar until super fine. Sift half of the sugar with salt and cake flour. Set remaining sugar aside to be added to whites..
3. Combine egg whites (room temp), vanilla, cream of tartar, lemon zest. Stir on med high speed until stiff peaks form, about 4 minutes.
4. Reduce speed and add remaining sugar until just combined..
5. Gradually sprinkle in cake flour and hand fold into the mixture a little at a time. Don't over mix..
6. SPOON batter into a 9 or 10 inch ungreased tube pan and bee for 35 minutes until top is golden brown and springs back when touched..
7. Cool Completely..
8. Lemon Glaze -- combine 1 cup confectioners sugar and 3-4 tablespoons of lemon juice and 1/2 teaspoon of lemon zest..

You must use a tube pan and not a bundt pan because the tube shape really helps with the baking To make lemon angel food cake, use lemon extract and lemon zest and top it off with lemon glaze or lemon frosting. To make this lemon angel food cake rustic, add sliced lemons on the top of the cake and garnish with baby's breath and thyme. Lemon angel food cake is what happens after I've been spending WAY too much time making ice cream. For the past several weeks I've been on an ice cream making kick, which means I've had tons of leftover egg whites. And what's a gal to do with a pile of leftover egg whites?