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Default Angel Food Cake Disaster

NEVER use a mixer for angel-food cake. It's way too strong. Beet the
egg-whites first then FOLD in the dry stuff GENTLY and only till it's
incorporated. DO NOT OVER MIX. My angel-foods usually over-flow the top
of the pan.

Janet Wilder wrote:
> I'm glad I didn't share the recipe I got for the lower (NOT low) carb
> angel food cake. It was a disaster. It never made it into the oven. I
> probably should have read the directions through a little more carefully
> from the get-go. Step one had you sifting the sugar and flour together
> then later it had you adding the sugar then the flour.
>
> Have to think up a treat for DH, now. I was baking challah for a
> friend's celebration this morning and he was drooling so I promised him
> a treat. I had two egg whites from the egg wash left over. Oh, well. I
> have some more Just Whites so I'll make him some macaroons.
>
> This would have been my first cake with my brand new Kitchen Aide stand
> mixer, too.
>
> As my late mother used to say: "this should be the worst thing that
> should ever happen to you". <g>