Last weekend I decided to try this idea I had for a 4th of July cake. A few months ago I found this recipe. It looked so delicious. And I instantly thought it would make a great 4th of July cake if I did one layer in red and another in blue. After reading the recipe I could tell it was an angel food-like cake. I’m not a huge fan of angel food. I want to be, but it just doesn’t do anything for me. I think it’s a texture thing. But I chose to stick with the basic recipe.
Here’s the thing... my biggest issue with baking is that I’m super impatient. And this was my downfall with this recipe. I needed to split the recipe. I was able to split the dry ingredients - no problem. The next step was to whip 11 egg whites and add the food coloring to that. So I had to split the egg whites in half in order to get the 2 colors. In hindsight I should’ve just split them before whipping, but noooo. I thought I would just whip them to soft peaks and then split them. This did not work. I should’ve at least weighed the halves, but I was too impatient. So, the red half did not get enough egg whites.
I added blueberries to the blue half and chopped strawberries to the red half and I iced it with the whipped mascarpone frosting that I used on my strawberry birthday cake. The blue half did taste pretty good - so if you like angel food cake, I would highly recommend the recipe. But the red half was rubbery and yucky. The best part about the cake was the look. I did love the way it came out visually and I like the idea of doing this for other holidays, with other color combinations. But I would have to use a more traditional cake method because angel food is not for me.
Here’s the thing... my biggest issue with baking is that I’m super impatient. And this was my downfall with this recipe. I needed to split the recipe. I was able to split the dry ingredients - no problem. The next step was to whip 11 egg whites and add the food coloring to that. So I had to split the egg whites in half in order to get the 2 colors. In hindsight I should’ve just split them before whipping, but noooo. I thought I would just whip them to soft peaks and then split them. This did not work. I should’ve at least weighed the halves, but I was too impatient. So, the red half did not get enough egg whites.
I added blueberries to the blue half and chopped strawberries to the red half and I iced it with the whipped mascarpone frosting that I used on my strawberry birthday cake. The blue half did taste pretty good - so if you like angel food cake, I would highly recommend the recipe. But the red half was rubbery and yucky. The best part about the cake was the look. I did love the way it came out visually and I like the idea of doing this for other holidays, with other color combinations. But I would have to use a more traditional cake method because angel food is not for me.
Well, it looks wonderful!! Love the decorating choices and the batter colors!
ReplyDeletethanks! i definitely will try the idea again. :)
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