Chocolate Angel Food Cake Recipe

Chocolate Angel Food Cake Recipe

  • 1 1/2 cups egg whites
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granulated
  • 3/4 cup light corn syrup
  • 3/4 cup sifted cake flour
  • 1/2 cup cornstarch
  • 1/4 cup cocoa
  • 1 1/2 cups SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, Granulated
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Place egg whites in a large mixing bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Add cream of tartar and vanilla extract. Beat at high speed with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1/3 cup SPLENDA(R) Granulated Sweetener and light corn syrup, beating until stiff peaks form.
  3. Sift flour, cornstarch, and cocoa 2 times into another mixing bowl. Add 1 1/2 cups SPLENDA(R) Granulated Sweetener to flour mixture, stirring until blended.
  4. Sprinkle 1/4 of the flour mixture over the egg whites. Fold gently. Repeat procedure three times with the remaining flour mixture.
  5. Pour batter into an ungreased 10-inch tube pan, spreading batter evenly in pan.
  6. Cut through batter with a knife to remove air bubbles.
  7. Bake on lowest rack in oven for 40 to 45 minutes, or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
  8. Invert tube pan over a long neck bottle; cool cake in the pan for 30 to 40 minutes.
  9. Loosen cake from sides of pan using a narrow metal spatula; remove cake from pan.