Blueberry Angel Food Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups sugar, divided
• 1 cup sifted cake flour
• 12 large egg whites
• 1 1/4 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups blueberries
• 2 tablespoons sifted cake flour
• 1 tablespoon grated lemon, zest of
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 2 sift together 1 cup flour and 1/2 cup sugar.
• 3 in a large bowl, beat egg whites until foamy.
• 4 add cream of tartar and salt and continue beating until soft peaks form.
• 5 add 1 cup of the sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time and continue beating until stiff peaks form.
• 6 sift flour mixture over the egg whites, 1/4 cup at a time, folding in carefully.
• 7 fold in vanilla and blueberries.
• 8 combine 2 tablespoons flour and lemon zest then fold this into the egg mixture.
• 9 spoon batter evenly into an ungreased 10 inch tube pan.
• 10 bake for 40 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly pressed.
• 11 invert pan over a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
• 12 loosen cake by running a spatula around the edges of the pan, and remove from pan.
• 13 to make the glaze, whisk the lemon juice and sugar together until it forms a smooth glaze then drizzle it over the cake.