From scratch Chocolate Angel Food Cake

I've made my version of chocolate angel food cake using a box angel food cake mix and adding cocoa and it really was super easy and delicious too but sometimes I'm not satisfied until I make the scratch version.

 Below is the scratch cake version and if you might want to know my opinion on what cake I preferred I'll post it at the end of this blog. Enjoy!

The recipe for this cake was from all recipes and although it wasn't perfect) I think I beat it too much so it didn't raise as much as I thought it should.

  It's a delicate cake so with the box version there was no mistake on what to do.  This one had many steps and was a bit  confusing.

Having said that it was denser than I had hoped it would be but we had no trouble eating it! Lol

I did make several adjustments to my recipe but I read the comments where others did as well.

For instance I bought a container of egg whites instead of separating 12 eggs.  My container was 2 cups. I used all purpose flour (which was all I had available).

 

The recipe below is from allrecipes.com

• 2 cups egg whites
  
  

  
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 1/4 cups white sugar

• 1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 1/4 cups cake flour
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
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Directions 

• Prep
  30 m
• Cook
  1 h
• Ready In
  1 h 30 m

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, mix confectioners' sugar, cake flour, and cocoa. Sift together 2 times, and set aside.
3. In a clean large bowl, whip egg whites, salt, and cream of tartar with an electric mixer on high speed until very stiff. Fold in white sugar 2 tablespoons at a time while continuing to mix. Fold in flour mixture, a little at a time, until fully incorporated. Stir in vanilla. Pour into a 10 inch tube pan.
4. Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for approximately 1 hour, or until cake springs back when touched.

1. Happy Baking!
2. I was happy with the box mix.  I would make it again.  It was a lot easier and here is what the box cake looked like.