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  1. Stephen Ceideburg 1 c All-purpose flour

  2. 1/3 c Unsweetened cocoa

  3. 1 3/4 c Granulated sugar, divided

  4. 1 3/4 c Egg whites (about 11), at

  5. - room temperature 1/2 t Salt

  6. 1 1/2 ts Cream of tartar

  7. 2 ts Vanilla

  8. Fruit compote, optional (see accompanying recipes)

  9. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

  10. In a small bowl, combine flour and cocoa with 3/4 cup sugar. Mix well and set aside.

  11. Place egg whites in a large mixing bowl. Add salt and cream of tartar. Beat at high speed of an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Test by turning off machine and raising beater slowly. Gradually add the remaining sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue beating until stiff peaks form when you remove the beaters.

  12. 5 strokes, rotating the bowl as you fold in the flour. Repeat three more times, until the flour mixture is all used up. Then fold an additional

  13. 10 strokes. Flour mixture should be blended into the egg whites.

  14. 10-inch tube pan. Bake

  15. 35 to 40 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Invert tube pan over the neck of a glass bottle. Keep the cake inverted until completely cool, at least two hours.

  16. With a sharp knife, carefully loosen cake from the pan. Serve plain or garnished with a fruit compote.

  17. 105 calories (12 percent from protein, 86 percent from carbohydrate, 3 percent from fat),

  18. 3 grams protein,

  19. 23 grams carbohydrate, less than

  20. 1 gram fat,

  21. 0 cholesterol,

  22. 84 milligrams sodium. Exchanges:

  23. 1/2 bread,

  24. 1/2 meat.

  25. From the Oregonian's FOODday, 2/9/93.

  26. Posted by Stephen Ceideburg

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