Light and Fluffy Angel Food Cake

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup cake flour
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 12 large egg whites

  at room temperature
• 1 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon almond extract

Instructions

• 1 Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line the bottom of a 16-cup tube pan with
  parchment paper (do not grease).
• 2 In a medium bowl, sift the flour and ¾ cup of the sugar (place the remaining ¾
  cup of sugar in a separate small bowl).
• 3 In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or an electric
  hand beater), begin whisking the egg whites over medium-low speed. Add the cream
  of tartar and salt and whisk until the mixture is foamy (this process should
  take about 1 minute). Turn the mixer to medium-high speed and whip the egg white
  mixture to a puffy, frothy cloud-like texture (1 minute). Slowly add the ¾ cup
  of sugar that you had set aside—a heaping tablespoon at a time—until you achieve
  soft, glossy peaks (about 2 minutes). Add the vanilla and almond extracts and
  beat until incorporated (20 to 30 seconds).
• 4 Begin adding the sifted flour and sugar mixture to the whipped egg whites—about
  ¼ cup at a time—and use a rubber spatula to gently fold it into the egg whites.
  Repeat until all the flour/sugar is incorporated.
• 5 Spoon the batter into your prepared tube pan. Swirl a butter knife through the
  batter to help pop/release any air bubbles and then smooth the top of the cake
  with a rubber spatula. Bake until the top is golden brown and the cake springs
  back when you press a finger into the top, 52 to 55 minutes.
• 6 Invert the tube pan onto your countertop (especially easy to do if the tube pan
  has prongs or “feet” on the sides) or onto a wire cooling rack and let cool
  completely upside down (to prevent deflating). Run a butter knife around the
  edges of the pan to loosen the cake and then remove it from the pan, peeling off
  the bottom layer of parchment paper.
• 7 Serve slices of angel food cake with sweetened whipped cream and chopped
  strawberries.

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