Eye Eat 12
by Jennifer
[Folding in that flour into those beaten egg whites like a boss]
[Anybody notice that it looks like an egg salad sandwich?]
It's kind of sad how much time I devote to cooking nowadays compared to actual art and job hunting, fufufufufu. A really really really late Mother's Day cake for my favourite woman in the world, angel food cake! Or a cheater's version of it. considering:
a) Most recipes call for 10-12 egg whites. Sorry, not going to make my family eat egg yolks. And I'm too cheap to go buy a carton of egg whites.
b) No cake flour!?!
So, I made this version, and omitted the coconut (apparently coconut in angel food cake is sacrilegious, according to Momma Bear). Rating? It was alright, considering I used all-purpose flour - making it more dense than it should be - and might have over beaten the egg whites (y u no appear stiff peaks?!). But the texture was very spongy... please don't tell me I accidentally made sponge cake instead.
IN OTHER NEWS,
I got an interview for one of the internships which I applied for a month ago. Excited and nervous at the same time!
Are egg yolks in cake bad for you?
ReplyDeleteTeach me how to bake some day!
=o what internship? Omg!!
In typical cake recipes, you'll probably use the entire egg. But for the case of angel cake food cake, egg whites give the light, airy texture. So you need to separate the eggs; A regular angel food cake recipe has 10-12 egg whites, so an ENTIRE carton. So in a sense, it's kind of wasteful if you plan to eat eggs..not in an angel food cake form. Teach me how to use computers, and it's a done deal! >:)
DeleteThe internship interview is one for the university, and it's one where you teach kids basic scientific ideas behind global warming and see whether this raises literacy in science and math.
Forgive my foodie noobness. How is angel food cake different from a sponge cake? I make bread when I try to make sponge cake :3
DeleteAnd lol depends what you mean by use the computer, because I suck at that... But I'll try haha
I'm so jelz of your internship, I'm a long way from getting the one that I want (need to learn more CS)
LOL, no worries! Looking at wikipedia, angel food cake is a type of sponge cake (look at the things one learns each day!). But as mentioned before, angel food cake really just requires the egg whites; on the other hand, sponge cake can make use of the entire egg - either beating the sugar with the whole egg, or separating the yolk and egg white, and combining them later on. But then again, I've seen a recipe for sponge cake where it only used egg whites, so I'm not particularly sure. :S
DeleteHmmm, for the computers thing, how about "what every person (outside of comp. sci majors) should know about using their computer" (java?)?
LOL, I'm not guaranteed the internship just yet, I gotta ace that interview (but I really really really want it). Pfffft, you can get that easily, you learn quick. I think, since I don't creep your study habits. :)