11/05/2020 by Jess

Angel Food Cake with Strawberries

Hey, Mad Bakers!

I’m a little late today, to be exact, a day late. I usually publish on Sundays but yesterday, I didn’t. Why? I’m very tired, and it’s not that I’m making a lot of physical effort, not at all, in fact, I would say almost the opposite, but I’m a person who sleeps like a baby, and thanks to the lockdown, I’m suffering (like the rest of the population) a little bit of insomnia that ends up translating into apathy. So simple, there is no more mystery and it is not by far a greater evil, I just have to put a little order to my days, leave aside the mobile / tablet from a prudent hour and everything will return to his being (in theory)

I will also say that good things come quite late, and this recipe is yum yum yum! Sorry for my lack of vocabulary, we can blame it on my poor mental performance or simply that there are no words to explain this dish!

This is one of those recipes for people like me who don’t have a sweet taste. It’s amazing to me that making and watching sweets all day long is more salty… incomprehensible things in life. 

We have an Angel Food Cake, which for those who are not familiar with the term, is a very spongy cake because it is made almost 100% of meringue, as a rule, unless we make a Chocolate Angel Food Cake, it is a cake that has almost no flavor; It’s a sponge cake that has very little flavour, slightly vanilla because of the touch we give it, but nothing else, so for the flavour, all the attention goes to the garnish, in this case, some macerated strawberries that I promise you will want to eat before putting them next to the cake. 

Let’s go for it!

Preheat the oven at 180º and prepare a 25 cm Angel Food Cake pan. When I say leave the baking pan ready, in this case it should not have a single bit of fat on it. In this way we will help the meringue to climb up the walls of the baking pan. 

On one side we will sift two or even three times (if you feel like it) the flour and one of the sugar parts. Leave this aside. 

We will start with the important part of the recipe, and in turn main star. The meringue. 

This time we are going to make a French meringue and for that we are going to beat the egg whites at medium-high speed. From the first moment we can add the cream of tartar if we have it at home, if not, you can do it anyway without it. 

As I said, this is the main step and for it we need a lot of patience, not because we are going to do anything complicated, quite the opposite, but we have to do it slowly and without running. 

We take the “second” 200 grams of sugar and we pour them over the bowl of egg whites while they are beating very slowly, as if a rain of sugar was falling. 

When all the sugar is incorporated, add the salt and the touch of vanilla, which, as I said at the beginning, is the only flavour the cake will have, and beat it for a couple of minutes. 

We now incorporate in four times, the first mixture we had made of flour and sugar. We add it to the meringue with the help of a whisk, so as not to destroy the meringue and lose all the air incorporated. 

I warn you that you’re going to end up with a bit of meringue.

We now pass this mixture into the pan that we had already prepared perfectly clean. If the surface has not remained smooth, we smooth it out with the help of a spatula.

We take it to the oven for 40 minutes and when we take it out we will let it rest on the “legs” that the pan has for 1 hour. 

When we go to take it out of the pan, don’t think that it comes out so easily by itself, no. Take a knife that is not very wide and pass it along the edge of the cake, to remove it from the sides. If the sides are already detached, we can easily remove it with the help of its removable base. Again, we take the knife and pass it through the base to remove it and voila, Angel Food Cake out of the pan. 

We start now with the “topping”, our macerated strawberries, for this we will need.

This step is… difficult (kidding). We put all this in a bowl and cover it with plastic wrap, leave it to rest for about 20 minutes and stir from time to time. Done. It was easy, huh?

And now, ready to serve with our Angel Food Cake. 

And enjoy it!

Thanks a lot and sorry to keep you waiting,

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