Angel Icing Food

ANGEL ICING

Steps:

• Combine the egg whites, sugar, corn syrup, water, cream of tartar, and salt in the top of a double boiler over water that is at a hard boil. Start beating right away with a beater until the mixture stands in stiff peaks. Remove from heat and add vanilla or your favorite flavoring and keep beating until it is thick enough to spread easily.

LEMON-GLAZED LEMON ANGEL FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Beat egg whites until frothy; add salt, cream of tartar and lemon oil and vanilla extract. Continue beating until they form stiff but not dry peaks. Using a rubber spatula, gradually fold in the sugar a few tablespoons at a time.
• Using the same rubber spatula, gradually fold in the flour, one quarter at a time. Be sure that you use a true folding motion, gently turning the spatula from the bottom of the bowl to the top, folding in air with each stroke as opposed to beating or stirring. You just went to all that work the whip up the egg whites, don't want to beat them to death.
• Pour batter into an ungreased, 9-inch angel food cake pan (you know the one with the tube in the center, not a bundt pan).
• Bake one hour or until top is golden brown and the cake pulls away from pan sides.
• Remove cake from oven . Cool in the pan ten minutes and then invert pan and let cake stand upside down for an hour or until cooled.
• You might let the cake stand over a plate in case your oven was funky and the cake plops out of the pan prematurely. Hey, it happens.
• While cake is cooling prepare the glaze. In a small bowl, whisk together confectioners sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest. Let stand ten minutes before glazing the cake as it thickens a little. Serve immediately.

FROSTED ANGEL FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• For the angel food cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine the cake flour and salt in a medium bowl and sift together 5 times. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, with an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until frothy (lots of bubbles but still liquid and loose). Add the cream of tartar and beat on high until stiff, 4 to 5 minutes. With the mixer on medium low, slowly sprinkle in the sifted granulated sugar. Fold in the sifted flour mixture gently until it's all combined. Sprinkle the vanilla into the bowl and fold gently.
• Spoon the batter into an angel food or tube pan (preferably with cooling legs)--make sure there's no grease or butter in there! Smooth the top and bake until a wooden skewer stuck all the way to the bottom comes out clean, 35 to 45 minutes. (Don't open the oven while it's baking!)
• Carefully remove the cake from the oven and immediately invert it onto its cooling legs (see Cook's Note). Let the cake cool completely while upside-down.
• For the frosting: Beat the powdered sugar, butter and cream in a large bowl with an electric mixer until very light and fluffy. Add a few drops of yellow food coloring as desired.
• Carefully remove the cake from the pan and transfer it to a cake plate upside-down, so that the end that was stuck to the bottom of the pan is now facing up. Frost the cake all over.

NO COOK ICING

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, stir together the white sugar, egg white, vanilla, cream of tartar, and boiling water. Beat using an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. If you have a stand mixer, use the whisk attachment.

CHOCOLATE ANGEL FOOD CAKE WITH MARSHMALLOW FROSTING

Steps:

• Make the angel food cake: Set the oven rack in bottom third of oven and preheat the oven to 350F.
• Sift 2/3 cup of the superfine sugar onto a piece of wax paper; set aside.
• Sift the remaining 1/3 cup superfine sugar with the cocoa powder, cake flour and salt; set aside.
• In the large bowl of a standing mixer, beat the egg whites at medium speed until foamy.
• Add the cream of tartar and beat until the foam is white and holds the lines of the beater.
• Increase the speed to medium-high and add the sifted, superfine sugar, 1 tblsp at a time, until completely incorporated.
• Beat for 30 seconds longer until soft peaks form.
• Remove the bowl from the mixer.
• Sift and fold the dry ingredients into the beaten whites, folding them in with a rubber spatula.
• Pour the batter into a 10-cup angel food cake pan or bundt pan and gently smooth the top without deflating the mixture.
• Bang the pan once (not too hard) on the counter to release any large air pockets.
• Bake for about 35 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.
• Invert the cake pan over a narrow-necked bottle.
• Let the cake cool completely in the pan, about 1 hour.
• Run a thin knife between the cake and sides and center tube of the pan to loosen (you may need to jiggle the pan to completely release the cake).
• Invert the cake onto a serving platter.
• Make the marshmallow frosting: Put the egg whites in the large bowl of a standing mixer.
• In a small saucepan, stir together the granulated sugar and 1/3 cup of water.
• Bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
• When the sugar syrup comes to a boil, begin beating the egg whites (with clean beaters!) at medium-high speed.
• When they become foamy, add the cream of tartar and beat at medium speed until stiff peaks form.
• Insert a candy thermometer into the sugar syrup (be sure the bulb is completely submerged).
• Cook until the syrup reaches 242F.
• Remove from the heat.
• With the mixer still on, beat the sugar syrup into the egg whites in a slow stream until completely incorporated.
• Increase the speed to high and beat for 5 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl once with a rubber spatula.
• Add the vanilla and beat for 1 more minute.
• The frosting will still be a little warm.
• Frost the cake: Spread a thin layer of frosting all over the cake, including the inside of the center opening, to glue down the crumbs.
• Then coat the cake all over with the remaining frosting.
• Decorate the top of the cake with the chocolate shavings.
• To serve: Gently slice the cake with a serrated knife or an angel food comb.

PINEAPPLE FROSTING FOR ANGEL FOOD CAKE

Steps:

• Mix all together with a spoon.
• Spread over cooled cake.