Angel Food Cupcakes

I saw a recipe on Allrecipes.com for this and was a little worried about how it would turn out. I made them this afternoon and they turned out wonderfully. So here's how you do it....

Ingredients:

Angel food cake mix and whatever goes with that.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. The box will tell you 375 but the cupcakes work best at 350 (or so I hear). Follow the instructions on the box.

Fill normal-sized cupcake tins about 2/3 or 3/4 full. I filled mine pretty full today and the cupcakes are pretty huge. It just depends on how big you like your cupcakes.

Then put them in the oven and bake for about 20 minutes. Keep an eye on them though, depending on how your oven is. Once they're brown on top they're good.

Take them out and let them cool.

I used normal-sized cupcake tin and the mix made 24 cupcakes. If you make 24 they're only 70 calories apiece, with no fat. My mom made orange buttercream frosting and it was amazing on the cupcakes, but if you're trying to slim down it might not be the best thing for you since all it is is butter and sugar (haha). I'd suggest serving it with light Cool Whip and strawberries or strawberry freezer jam (I love that stuff).

Enjoy.

(I hope my directions aren't terribly confusing. All you do is follow the instructions on the box and put it in muffin tins. The only difference is the heat of the oven and maybe the baking time.)

Angel cake is just

1) Eggwhites

2) Flour

3) Sugar (or splenda)

Why buy a mix for that?? And how do they even make a dry mix for WHIPPED eggwhites???

I assume the egg whites in the boxed mix are "powdered." They must dehydrate them somehow. Personally, I think it's a hell of a lot easier to make a box mix for Angelfood than to make it homemade, though I PREFER everything ELSE homemade. Of course, nowdays you can buy cartons of egg whites rather than crack all those eggs.

Then again, a box mix is also way cheaper. 

The thing with angel food...is that you have to work air into the whites (thats what makes it fluffy, there is no baking powder or anything like that). If its just a dry mix...then where does the "poof" come from? It seems like it cant be an angelfood cake like that?

A dozen eggs cost about 1$ (10-12 eggwhites makes a full cake recipe). Flour and sugar you need like a cup of...so out of the bags you can buy for 1$, its not much. Total cake is like $1.50? on the high end? I havent really looked at the prices of boxed mixes...but i would guess its higher.

Pre-made mixes bug me...its keeping people from learning about cooking! Like pancakes (again, its like 3 things!). Beyond the recipe of whatever cake you are making...learning from actually cooking helps you understand whats going on in the recipe (and from that understanding, you can change it to fit what you want...not just what comes in the box).

People think cooking takes a long time...and that might be true the first time you try something. But once you learn how to cook, you dont even need recipes anymore. You can just start throwing things together with a few basic items, no measuring, and do it quickly.

Heh i just dont get the entire pre-made mixes. Im only 24 and its not really something i had when growing up... it just seems so strange when its just a couple basic basic things.

I make nearly everything from scratch, and I'm not a fan of boxed cake mixes, or any kind of mix for that matter.  I love to cook and wish everyone could have that pleasure.

But I have to admit, the results from angel food cake mix is hard to top.  I don't know quite how the air gets in there, but it does, without separating eggs and whipping the whites.  I find it an acceptable alternative.

taste box angel food cake batter sometime and you'll see where the poof comes from! i tried it when i made some, and it was like fizzy, almost carbonated. they put something it there that gets the air in it! very odd sensation to taste the raw batter, but the cake came out normal and tasty.

The great thing about angel food cakes is being able to use the yolks afterwards for a chocolate cream pie, so you end up with two yummy things. 

Eggs are little miracles.

Well, I used a mix because we wanted something really quick for a mid-afternoon snack. So the answer why use a mix is: pure laziness. We make pretty much everything from scratch but angel food cake mix is pretty good stuff, and easy as crud.

But you could use either, it's just the concept I wanted to get across.