Homemade Angel Food Cake and Oreo Truffles

Hello there!!!
I decided this past week when I was looking at dessert options that I wanted to make something with Angel Food Cake for company. I used a Martha Stewart recipe HERE But, I couldn't just buy the angel food cake...I wanted to make my own! The recipes looked simple enough. That's funny to me now! Because I ended up making it 2 times - with 12 egg whites in each, that's a lot of eggs! Opps! My first attempt I didn't want to have to buy a special pan to make the cake in and was thinking I needed to cut it into squares in the first place so let's just use a rectangular glass pan I have. That plan was fine I guess. What really went wrong was making it - I never got the stiff peaks I was supposed to get according to the recipe and the UTube I watched on angel food cake. I even put it in the mix master and mixed for about 20 minutes when it should have taken two!!! I finally gave up and cooked it. Really not bad, but not what I was going for as you can see with the picture below.

Attempt number 2....not sure the difference, but I was able to whip the ingredients just like supposed to. This time not almost killing my mix master and getting the peaks like I should have the first time. I was quite proud!



And I used the correct pan - an angel food pan that I got at Michael's with my 40% off coupon. Of course you always have to have one of those handy if you are into baking. Saves you most of the time! The ironic thing is though - I was in the grocery store just before stopping at Michael's and saw the exact same thing. With my coupon, in the end I only saved $2 from the grocery store. Wondering if the extra trip was even worth the $2!!!!

This time it turned out pretty good. BUT I already know something for the next time. (I'm determined to perfect this recipe for some reason). I'm not going to follow the recipes directions when it says put in UNGREASED pan. Why do I trust that? Has that ever worked for anyone? If I had put pam and parchment paper down like my instincts wanted I wouldn't have had the crumbles getting it out like I did.



I decided to make 2 totally different desserts since I had both angel food cakes. The first angel food cake attempt that wasn't the greatest...I made a caramel sauce to go on top. This was an adventure in itself for me to make. The recipe said mix until reaches a soft-ball stage for 234 degrees....hm.. I didn't have a candy thermometer and wasn't really sure what the soft-ball stage meant. I had made a double batch of this just in case the recipe didn't make enough. So my pan I was mixing in wasn't quite big enough. It took a few times of boiling over and the smoke detector to go off for me finally to transfer the sauce to a big enough pan. It was a nice mess to clean up let me tell you that! Hard caramel sauce that had burned on the stove. Fun! The picture doesn't look that pretty below. I agree...but the taste was pretty good. Next time I wouldn't chill it though. It had been in the refrigerator like the recipe said and this made it too stiff. But the flavor of the caramel sauce was tasty! This is the Link to the recipe from Allrecipes.com - a website I use a lot. I didn't drizzle like they did and didn't put the cream cheese middle in...probably would have been much better if I did - my goal really was just to try the sauce!
The strawberry Angel Dessert was the BEST by far. This was the 2nd attempt angel food cake which came out great. This tasted really yummy. It was made with gelatin, strawberries and whipped cream. You mix those all together and then toss in the angel food cake to coat it. Light and fluffy cake just like it is supposed to taste like too! This was a winner recipe.
Last but not least. Oreo Truffle Balls. Which are to die for! I got this recipe from a good friend at work and they are always a hit. And very easy to make! I have also seen this recipe on a blog - here's the recipe from Spirals and Spatulas.
As you can see I was busy baking this weekend and having a good time doing it all!!!!