Angel Food Cake

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Baked this twice in last 2 weeks--heavenly!!! Like eating a sweetened cloud--- Used fine microplane and added approx 1 tbsp of orange rind to the cake during the early hand-whisk stage of egg whites--adds an additional fresh flavor to the cake. Served dessert with freshly chunk-mashed strawberries covered with lemon flavored greek non-fat yogurt that I added non-fat topping to-whipped in. An impresive low-fat, big-tasting dessert...

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Amazing! I made this with Alton's lemon curd recipe and it was divine!

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I too had to try this recipe twice. I didn't watch the video until after I'd made the batter & put it in the oven. My batter looked NOTHING like Alton's!! I didn't beat the egg whites nearly long enough.. So my cake was a dense mess. But, I got a dozen more eggs & tried again. This time, I made sure to beat the heck outta those egg whites until they looked like Alton's. It took me a good 10-15 minutes using the hand mixer to get them to medium peaks. Then after about 33 minutes in the oven (I have gas & it cooks a little faster, & 60 agonizing minutes letting it cool, it tasted so great! I will NEVER buy an angel food cake from the store. My husband informed me that he actually hates store-bought angel food cake but he said this was so good (he had three pieces within an hour... The orange flavor was really subtle & it went well with this cake. Just take your time, make sure you have the right equipment & watch the video!

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I made this 2 times in the same day because I got yellow in the white and it didn't whip. So i stood their for 25 mins while these eggs aren't getting fluffy. So i started over and it came out AMAZING my family ate the whole thing in 1 day. Please Try It

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NOT ENOUGH COOKING TIME!
Even after the wooden skewer came out clean and I turned it upside down, the cake fell right out on the counter and parts of it was still gooey and wet! so COOK IT LONGER EVEN IF YOU THINK ITS DONE/IT LOOKS DONE!!!

BUT! the cooked parts that I was able to salvage was delicious, hence the 3 stars : VERY light and fluffy! I followed the directions exactly and even though there wasn't enough cooking time, the cake itself was really good. Except maybe next time I'll cut down on the sugar because it was quite sweet.

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i loved the taste of it. it was mosted

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Cannot believe how awesome this came out. I was particularly impressed that due to the lighter nature of making a cake from mostly beaten egg whites, the cake came out super moist and delicious, fluffy and wonderful. Thanks Alton for hitting it out of the ball park again with this one! :

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i made this cake again after a fail the first time and it came out awesome ^.^ finally got the egg whites to do what i wanted them to do. thanks for the help and the tips ^.^

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rukiasensei reply. I made the cake today and it came out perfect. Make sure to whip the egg whites with a wisk first. use the wisk until the egg whites are a foam. Then it took me about 20 min on medium speed and like 10 min on low until my egg whites were done. But make sure that there is no trace of any egg yokes in the egg whites, if there is it will ruin all the egg whites. Use three bowls the one in the middle for cracking and placing the whites. the left for the yolk and the right to dump the middle in. this way if you mess up on one egg you won't ruin all of the eggs just the one. Also make sure to only use a metal or stainless steel bowl when whipping.

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I have never made an angel food cake before, and after reading the reviews I was a little nervous. I followed the directions to a t, and it turned out PERFECT! I think it helped that I read through the directions a couple times to be sure I understood them. I also made sure I had everything ready to go before I started which eliminated confusion. I read that someone had problems with it leaking out of the bottom of the pan. The only thing I can think is that you really need to make sure your egg whites are at a medium peak and not rush it. The things that I will do differently next time is to make sure my batter is in level as I turned out a little lop sided, invert the pan as soon as I pull it out of the oven, and let it cool a complete hour before removing from the pan. Good luck!