Grandma Skeen's Angel Food Cake with Cherry Icing Recipe
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Ingredients: For the cake:
10 large egg whites
1¼ granulated sugar
1 scant cup flour
1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
1 scant teaspoon cream of tartar
⅛ teaspoon salt
For the icing:
¾ box powdered sugar (1 lb. box)
½ stick oleo or butter
Juice from small bottle maraschino cherries, about ½
Enough Pet Evaporated milk to moisten to spreading consistency
10 cherries cut in half - place on paper towel to absorb excess juice
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Directions:For cake:
Beat egg whites and salt to a froth. Add cream of tartar and beat until it will bear the weight of a teaspoon. Sift sugar, and add ¼ cup at a time beating well each time. Add two teaspoons cold water and the vanilla, beating in well. Sift flour twice before measuring. Fold in gently, ¼ cup at a time. Bake in uncreased angel cake (tube pan) tin. Slow oven - 300º for 50 minutes. When cake is removed from oven it should be inverted immediately and remain that way until completely cold. Remove from pan gently, put on plate with bottom side up.
For icing:
Melt oleo in bowl over warm water, add cherry juice and sugar. Stir and add milk until mixture reaches spreading consistency. Cover cake with icing and space the cherry halves around cake. |
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Number Of
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Notes: On our birthdays, Grandma would make our favorite cake - and this one was loved by all of us. We didn't call it angel food cake - it was just cherry cake!
(Most of this recipe was copied directly from Grandma's written recipe. I changed only a few words.)
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