Brown Sugar Angel Food Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 14 large egg whites
• 1 1/2 cups light-brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 1/4 cups sifted cake flour (not self-rising)

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat egg whites and sugar on medium speed until foamy; add cream of tartar. increase speed to high; beat egg whites until tripled in volume, stiff, and glossy.
• 3 transfer egg mixture to a large bowl; fold in flour in three additions.
• 4 spoon batter into an unbuttered 10-inch angel-food-cake pan with a removable bottom. run a knife through batter to pop air pockets.
• 5 bake until cake is golden in color and springs back when gently pressed, about 45 minutes.
• 6 invert pan onto a cooling rack or the neck of a bottle and allow cake to cool, at least 1 hour.
• 7 to remove cake from pan, run a knife around sides and center tube of pan. release cake from sides, and run a long knife along the bottom of the cake, freeing it from the tube.
• 8 serve with ice cream and hot-fudge sauce.