Dark Angel Cake
- 1/4 cup cake flour sifted
- 2 tablespoons cake flour
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups egg whites
- 1 1/2 Teaspoons cream of tartar
- 2 Teaspoons vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 325F (160C).
- Resift cake flour with cocoa powder, 3/4 cup sugar and salt.
- In large bowl, beat egg whites on low speed 1 1/2 minutes, or until frothy.
- Sprinkle cream of tartar over whites.
- Beat on medium speed until white and foamy.
- Slowly add remaining sugar, beating 2 to 3 minutes, or until soft (not stiff), smooth peaks form.
- Sprinkle one-third cocoa mixture and vanilla over egg whites.
- Fold in with rubber spatula, keeping spatula under surface of batter as you fold.
- Repeat two more times with remaining coco mixture.
- Do not overfold.
- Pour into ungreased 9 or 10-inch tube pan.
- Bake in lower third of oven about 50 to 60 minutes, or until cake springs back when touched and wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and invert tube pan on counter.
- Let cool in pan about 2 hours before removing.
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Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/dark-angel-cake-38055 (may not work)