Angel Food Cake

Angel Food Cake
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Hmm what do you do with all the egg whites left from making multiple recipes of creme brulee?  You make angel food cake! 
I dug out my mum's recipe from her dog earred, butter stained notebook cookbook.  Thought not in the instructions - I did remember that you don't let any fat near your beaters, spatula or bowls, or it will not rise!
I couldn't read how long and at what temperature to cook the cake.  The internet came to the rescue - Betty Crocker's version was almost the same as mum's. 
Made the original version, then someone suggested - wouldn't lemon taste great in this cake.  So the next couple versions had lemon added.  Let's just say the lemon was a bit hit.

Angel Food Cake

1 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 cup cake flour
1 ½ cups egg whites (10 = number of yolks from 2 crème brulee recipe)
1 ½ teaspoons cream of tartar
1cup granulated sugar
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
½ teaspoon almond extract
1/teaspoon salt

​Lemon variation – 1 ½ tsp lemon zest (2 lemons)

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Original recipe:
​https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/heavenly-angel-food-cake/47fb0100-5df4-4dd4-b4e1-f5db1475954b

1. Move oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 375ºF.
2. Sift powdered sugar and flour; set aside.
3. Beat egg whites and cream of tartar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until foamy.
4. Beat in granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, on high speed, adding vanilla, almond extract and salt with the last addition of sugar. [Add lemon]Continue beating until stiff and glossy meringue forms. Do not underbeat.
5. Sprinkle sugar-flour mixture, 1/4 cup at a time, over meringue, folding in just until sugar-flour mixture disappears.
6. Push batter into ungreased angel food cake pan (tube pan), 10x4 inches. Cut gently through batter with metal spatula.
7. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until cracks feel dry and top springs back when touched lightly.
8. Immediately turn pan upside down onto heatproof funnel or bottle. Let hang about 2 hours or until cake is completely cool. Loosen side of cake with knife or long, metal spatula; remove from pan.