If you love Lemon desserts, you will love this cake!

We love to turn easy angel food cakes into delicious homemade cakes. We shared this mocha angel food cake recipe earlier, and we also love this chocolate version with raspberries. This cake is so simple in that you slice the baked cake into three layers and you add flavors in between the layers and frost with whipped cream. Super easy…super delicious.
The ingredients are really straight forward too. Have you ever made an angel food cake from scratch? I have…and oh boy is it a chore! You need 12 egg whites and you have to whip the heck out of it to get it all fluffy, and most the time it’s so hard to get it to turn out right. With an angel food cake mix you can always count on it turning out.

How to make Stabilized whipped cream:

We are frosting this cake with sweetened whipped cream. This whipped cream is stabilized with gelatin to keep it from deflating after it is whipped. Here’s how to make it:

2 cups heavy cream (1 pint)
3 tablespoon water
1 packet unflavored gelatin (2 1/2 teaspoons)
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Add the water and unflavored gelatin to a small microwave safe bowl. Allow it to sit together for a minute or two.
Microwave this mixture for just a few seconds. Stir the mixture and then set it aside to cool.
In the bowl of a stand mixer (with the whisk attachment) or using a hand mixer, add the heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar and vanilla.
Whip the mixture until it thickens and soft peaks form.
Turn the mixer to a low speed and slowly pour the gelatin mixture into the whipped cream.
Increase the mixer speed to medium high and continue mixing until stiff peaks form.

Use stabilized whipped cream like a frosting for cupcakes, cakes or your favorite dessert.

Stabilized whipped cream will hold up at room temp for a few hours, although It’s best kept chilled in the fridge until ready to serve.

How to make a Simple Glaze for Angel Food Cake:

If you’d rather just make a simple glaze rather than frost it with sweetened whipped cream, here’s how to do it. With a combination of powdered sugar and milk, you can make a simple glaze for your angel food cake. Just add a tablespoon of milk to a cup of powdered sugar and stir. Adjust either of the ingredients to change the consistency to make it thinner or thicker.

Is angel food cake unhealthy?

It’s still sugar and carbs, so it’s not healthy, but the actual cake itself is technically fat free. I guess it depends on what you serve with it. If you are adding a stabilized whipped cream frosting like we are here, it makes it more caloric, but so delicious!

Angel Food Cake Box Mix vs. Angel Food Cake from scratch:

If you’ve ever made angel food cake from scratch, you know it requires a bunch of egg whites, and then you are left with a bunch of egg yolks. If you’ve ever made an Angel Food Cake from a box mix, you know it’s so easy and so inexpensive. It’s also really easy to buy a store bought Angel Food Cake if you just want to jazz up a store bought cake. So really it’s up to your personal preference whether to make from scratch or use a cake mix.

Tips and Tricks for getting an Angel Food Cake out of the pan after baking:

Number one rule for baking an angel food cake is: Don’t grease the pan. The cake needs the sides of the tube pan to grow in size and cling to while it’s baking to achieve full volume.
After baking and out of the oven, cool the pan upside down to help keep the volume of the angel food cake.
Once cooled flip the cake tube pan back to it’s right side up. Take a thin knife all around the inside edge of the of the wall of the pan and take the knife around
The two pieces of the tube pan makes it easy to get the cake out of the pan by pulling up on the center tube.
If needed you can run a knife along the bottom of the pan to get it to release.

It’s a great recipe, I hope you try it!

Different ways to flavor Angel Food Cake:

There are many different ways to flavor an angel food cake box mix, here are some of our favorites:

Lemon: to add more lemon flavor substitute four tablespoons of lemon juice in the place of the 1/4 cup water.
Raspberry: red raspberry jam and a package of fresh raspberries pureed in a food processor and added to the whipped cream
Chocolate: to make a chocolate angel food cake, add 1/3 cup dry cocoa powder to the angel food box mix when mixing.
Orange Dream: add orange flavoring and orange extract and orange food coloring (if desired)
Pumpkin: add 3/4 cup canned pumpkin + 1 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Funfetti: Fold in 1/3 cup sprinkles (Jimmies) into the box mix after mixing.