The Best Angel Food Cake

Name: The Best Angel Food Cake
Yield: Serves 10 to 12
Ingredients: 1 cup (4 ounces/113 grams), cake flour, sifted; 1½ cups, sifted granulated sugar (10½ ounces/298 grams); 12 , large egg whites (1¾ cups plus 2 tablespoons); 1 teaspoon, cream of tartar; 1/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1 1/2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1 1/2 teaspoons, lemon juice; 1/2 teaspoon, almond extract

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Cakes
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 1992, America's Test Kitchen TV

With only eight ingredients, angel food cake is the ultimate test of finesse and timing.

SERVES 10 to 12

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 2 to 3 hours cooling

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