The Best Angel Food Cake

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 12 Egg whites

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 cup Cake flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp Cream of tartar
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 3/4 cups Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla

• Liquids

  • 1/3 cup Water

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Description

Ingredients

• 1¾ cups sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup cake flour
• 12 egg whites, room temperature
• ⅓ cup warm water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1½ teaspoons cream of tartar

Directions

• Place sugar in a food processor and blend for two minutes, until sugar becomes very fine.
• In a small-medium bowl, combine cake flour, salt and half of the fine sugar. Sift together and set aside.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine egg whites, water, vanilla and cream of tartar in a large bowl. Whisk ingredients together for 2 minutes by hand until well combined. At this point, switch to a hand mixer or pour egg white mixture into bowl of a stand mixer and using a whisk attachment. Gradually add remaining half of sugar and Beat egg white mixture until medium peaks can be formed.
• Sprinkle some of the flour mixture over the top of egg white mixture. Gently stir in. Repeat until all of the flour mixture has been stirred evenly in.
• Spoon mixture into an ungreased tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 35 minutes until golden brown in color and cake is cooked through.
• Invert cake pan and cool upside down (cake remaining in pan) until completely cooled.
• Once cooled, and carefully remove from pan, carefully scraping edges from sides.