Does anyone actually like Angel Food Cake?
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I love angel food cake, I can eat it plain2
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I love it, especially the one my mom makes. It's so fluffy it literally melts in your mouth. The variation I like the most is with apple slices.0
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Okay now I’m craving angel food cake🤣0
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victory291 wrote: »Okay now I’m craving angel food cake🤣
Same, arg0 -
I am not a big fan but when I do make it I make it from scratch. My grandmother was famous for her Angel Food and I use her recipe. When I make it, I think of her beating all those egg whites by hand since they didn't get electricity until sometime in the late 1930's. I am thankful for my Kitchenaid.
My favorite cake to make with Angle food is a cake Grandma used to make with chocolate whipped cream.
Make an Angel Food cake and cool
Beat together until stiff:
1 teaspoon Vanilla
3 cups Whipping Cream
1 1/2 cups Powdered Sugar
3/4 cup Cocoa
1/4 teaspoon Salt
Cut off the top 1" of the cake and scoop out the insides so you have a tunnel with 1" of cake on all sides. Fill the tunnel with the cream, put the top back on, and frost with the remaining cream. Decorate with raspberries or slivered almonds.
Where are the egg whites?
Oh ... is your recipe just for the whipped cream?0 -
Only fresh, the store bought stuff is pretty stiff.0
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I’ve always liked it. I like the spongy texture and the lightly sweet taste.
It goes great with fresh strawberries and whil cream too.0 -
I have never had it. But this post has made me curious....0
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Which is better/worse...Angel food or pound cake?0
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It's a family tradition (homemade), and I love it. I recently shared my dirty secret with my mom that before I flip the cake over on the plate, I peel off the brown crunchy layer on the bottom and devour it, as it's my favorite part. She confessed to me that she does the same thing! It was a fun mother/daughter moment.3
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I love angel food cake!! Love it plain or with strawberries, ice cream with a little whipped cream on top. YUM!0
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It's a family tradition (homemade), and I love it. I recently shared my dirty secret with my mom that before I flip the cake over on the plate, I peel off the brown crunchy layer on the bottom and devour it, as it's my favorite part. She confessed to me that she does the same thing! It was a fun mother/daughter moment.
When I was a kid, we would sneak in and eat that part before mom even got the cake out of the pan.1 -
battersea922 wrote: »Which is better/worse...Angel food or pound cake?
I prefer pound cake! More buttery/moist??2 -
missysippy930 wrote: »BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »I’ve never had it, don’t know if it’s really a ‘thing’ in the UK or at least in the same form as in the US. We have Angel Cake 🍰 , which is usually a striped layer cake in the same flavour/colours as Neapolitan Ice Cream; chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.
I have thought of trying to make it though, at various times but have hesitated because I have no idea whether a recipe looks legit or not since I don’t know what I’m aiming for! I imagine it being a very light, very close textured thing, like a Genoese Sponge but with less flavour?
Many seasons ago on The Great British Baking Show, the technical challenge was an angel food cake. None of the contestants knew what it was. It really surprised me, as it’s very common in the US. Growing up, we had it frequently, especially with mascerated strawberries and real whipped cream. Plain with no toppings, it has lower calories than other cake.
Nowadays, I am not much of a cake eater. It’s one food that I don’t miss and I can easily resist.
I just re-watched that episode this weekend! That show is my current happy place, play in the background choice. I just wish Netflix would add the missing seasons.
As for the original question, I will eat angel food cake if it is placed in front of me but I haven't actually made one since high school. Berries and whipped cream are required, not optional. I've never had one with any kind of frosting. Seems like it would be too sickly sweet without some tartness from the berries.1 -
Fresh made angel food cake is quite good, with syrupy strawberries and real, not too sweet, whipped cream. The airy texture is honestly different than any other dessert, and I suppose where the name comes from. It should be a light dessert.
Store bought angel food cake is generally a waste of calories. It can be saved with a big scoop of good ice cream plopped on top and allowed to melt and soak into the cake a little, but honestly at that point I'd rather just eat the ice cream.
Angel food cake and pound cake are like two different animals, which is better depends on what you are in the mood for and what you are going to top it with. Though if store-bought is the only option, you can get some decent store bought pound cake so I'd go with that in a pinch.1 -
It would definitely not be my first choice but I do like it.0
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It was legit my favorite cake as a kid. I requested it for every birthday.
ETA: admittedly, I was a weird kid (and am now a weird adult lol), and had (and still have) a very weird palette. 🤷🏼♀️2 -
It was legit my favorite cake as a kid. I requested it for every birthday.
ETA: admittedly, I was a weird kid (and am now a weird adult lol), and had (and still have) a very weird palette. 🤷🏼♀️It was legit my favorite cake as a kid. I requested it for every birthday.
ETA: admittedly, I was a weird kid (and am now a weird adult lol), and had (and still have) a very weird palette. 🤷🏼♀️
I recall frosting an angel food cake for my birthday once. Like, out of the can frosting. It didn't work that well, but I still ate it because it was cake.0 -
RelCanonical wrote: »It was legit my favorite cake as a kid. I requested it for every birthday.
ETA: admittedly, I was a weird kid (and am now a weird adult lol), and had (and still have) a very weird palette. 🤷🏼♀️It was legit my favorite cake as a kid. I requested it for every birthday.
ETA: admittedly, I was a weird kid (and am now a weird adult lol), and had (and still have) a very weird palette. 🤷🏼♀️
I recall frosting an angel food cake for my birthday once. Like, out of the can frosting. It didn't work that well, but I still ate it because it was cake.
My fav was plain with a little whipped cream1 -
Birthday cake of choice in our family. Sometimes with whipped topping and strawberries sometimes with 7 minute frosting.
I buy the boxed mix, don't care for the premade cakes at the stores, also don't care for the cakes that are truly homemade with a lot of egg whites, those are not sweet enough.0 -
missysippy930 wrote: »BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »I’ve never had it, don’t know if it’s really a ‘thing’ in the UK or at least in the same form as in the US. We have Angel Cake 🍰 , which is usually a striped layer cake in the same flavour/colours as Neapolitan Ice Cream; chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.
I have thought of trying to make it though, at various times but have hesitated because I have no idea whether a recipe looks legit or not since I don’t know what I’m aiming for! I imagine it being a very light, very close textured thing, like a Genoese Sponge but with less flavour?
Many seasons ago on The Great British Baking Show, the technical challenge was an angel food cake. None of the contestants knew what it was. It really surprised me, as it’s very common in the US. Growing up, we had it frequently, especially with mascerated strawberries and real whipped cream. Plain with no toppings, it has lower calories than other cake.
Nowadays, I am not much of a cake eater. It’s one food that I don’t miss and I can easily resist.
I just re-watched that episode this weekend! That show is my current happy place, play in the background choice. I just wish Netflix would add the missing seasons.
As for the original question, I will eat angel food cake if it is placed in front of me but I haven't actually made one since high school. Berries and whipped cream are required, not optional. I've never had one with any kind of frosting. Seems like it would be too sickly sweet without some tartness from the berries.
The Great British Baking Show makes me feel inadequate. And hungry. Bad combo.
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kshama2001 wrote: »missysippy930 wrote: »BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »I’ve never had it, don’t know if it’s really a ‘thing’ in the UK or at least in the same form as in the US. We have Angel Cake 🍰 , which is usually a striped layer cake in the same flavour/colours as Neapolitan Ice Cream; chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.
I have thought of trying to make it though, at various times but have hesitated because I have no idea whether a recipe looks legit or not since I don’t know what I’m aiming for! I imagine it being a very light, very close textured thing, like a Genoese Sponge but with less flavour?
Many seasons ago on The Great British Baking Show, the technical challenge was an angel food cake. None of the contestants knew what it was. It really surprised me, as it’s very common in the US. Growing up, we had it frequently, especially with mascerated strawberries and real whipped cream. Plain with no toppings, it has lower calories than other cake.
Nowadays, I am not much of a cake eater. It’s one food that I don’t miss and I can easily resist.
I just re-watched that episode this weekend! That show is my current happy place, play in the background choice. I just wish Netflix would add the missing seasons.
As for the original question, I will eat angel food cake if it is placed in front of me but I haven't actually made one since high school. Berries and whipped cream are required, not optional. I've never had one with any kind of frosting. Seems like it would be too sickly sweet without some tartness from the berries.
The Great British Baking Show makes me feel inadequate. And hungry. Bad combo.
It's rare that I crave something they're making on the show, which does seem odd now that I think about. Maybe because I know there is a zero percent chance of me actually getting in the kitchen and making it at that moment
Hear you on the inadequate thing, though. Homemade phyllo dough? Yeah, not happening! Ever.0 -
battersea922 wrote: »Which is better/worse...Angel food or pound cake?
Oooo that's a tough one. I find them equally delicious
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I love it - especially with fresh fruit topping and whipped cream/ice cream. 2/3 of my kids ask for angel food cake for their birthday. 0
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I love it!!!! It's so light and spongy and delicious0
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I like it but rarely eat cake1
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battersea922 wrote: »Which is better/worse...Angel food or pound cake?
Well, pound cake definitely has more calories.0 -
It can be rubbery but if made well - yum!0
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Mrs Jruzer always asks me to make homemade chocolate angelfood cake with whipped cream for her birthday every year. And it's pretty darn good, if I do say so.
Her grandmother made many angelfood cakes whipping the whites by hand. I cheat and use the stand mixer.2 -
I love it, especially if it's homemade angelfood cake.0
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