Heavenly Angel Food Cake

Surprised that this dessert doesn't have chocolate in it?

Don't worry all you chocolate fanatics! it's worth it. Delicious. My roommate, Bonita, made this with me. She actually showed me the recipe! This was our desert for tonight after our dinner and salad we made together. It was this potato casserole... (there is some fancy name for it but I can't remember it for the life of me)... as well as Romaine lettuce, strawberries, glazed pecans, and balsamic vinaigrette. Tonight was just an overall great night... if were talking about food that is :) other than that, today has been a very unlucky day for me in the funniest ways!

There is even a strawberry sauce I made up to go with it but I don't have any pictures of it. I might have done that on purpose. The sauce doesn't look all that appetizing but tastes phenomenal with this cake! It will be at the bottom, it's not complicated, it's so easy a caveman could do it! But seriously, just keep in mind I haven't perfected it yet ;)

So, Here we go!
First, lets move the oven rack to the lowest position and than heat the oven to 375degreesF

In a medium bowl, mix
1 1/2 Cups of Powdered Sugar
1 Cup of Cake Flour
1 1/2 Teaspoons of Cream of Tartar
Set aside :)

Now, in a LARGE bowl, beat
12 Egg whites (1 1/2 cups)
You are going to do this with an electrical mixer on medium speed until foamy.

Once foamy, add
1 Cup of Granulated Sugar
1 tablespoon at a time! Along with
1 1/2 Teaspoons of Vanilla
1/4 Teaspoon of Salt
Continue to beat until stiff and glossy meringue forms - Don't Under beat!

Sprinkle on top of the Meringue the sugar-flour mixture 1/4 cup at a time - sprinkle it evenly on top - and then fold the sugar flour mixture just until it disappears. (Be gentle! If you're not, your batter will start deflating!)
Once all the sugar-flour mixture is in your batter, push the batter into an ungreased angel food cake pan, 10x4. With a metal knife, cut through the batter - this will get rid of those big air bubbles.

Now, bake for 30 to 35 minutes! Once done, immediately turn upside down onto a heatproof funnel or bottle until cooled, about 2 hours. Loosen the side of the cake and than remove from the pan - you can eat!

Now for a nice little sauce?

all you need are
1 Pack of Fresh Strawberries and about
3 Tablespoons of Sweetened and Condensed milk
Blend together with an electric mixer and than pour your desired amount on top of your cake. Best with freshly cut strawberries as well as the sauce :)

Enjoy!

Go Bananas! Bread

Mmm.. Don't you just love the smell of banana bread cooking in your home? I baked this today and it made my apartment smell like heaven. More good news is that I baked this hours ago and my place still smells wonderful! I was dying for something to bake, I haven't baked something new in a while... I than saw the brown bananas on my counter and knew right than what I should bake :)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees!
and a perfect loaf pan size for this is a 9 1/4 by 5 1/4 by 2 1/2 inch. I actually didn't know that and I went to the store and just picked up a random sized loaf pan and the batter fit perfectly! What luck.

So in a medium sized bowl, blend
3 Ripe Bananas (brown)
1/2-3/4 Cup of Sour Cream (depending if you want it really moist or not)
2 Eggs
1 1/2 Teaspoons of Vanilla
Once those are all blended together, set it aside.

Than, in another medium sized bowl (preferably an electric mixer), swift together
2 Cups of Cake Flour
3/4 cup and 2 tablespoons of Sugar
1 Teaspoon of Baking Soda
3/4 Teaspoon of Baking Powder
1/2 Teaspoon of Salt
Once that is sifted together, (this is the part where it would be easier if you have an electric mixer but if you don't have one that is totally fine, I didn't use one either... you just have to do a lot more work in combining it really well) Add
10 Tablespoons of Butter
and make sure it is blended really well.

Now, Add the banana mixture to it in 3 batches, mixing it in between each batch. And now you can either add in nuts or chocolate chips or even both! you can put in however much you want in it. I put in about 1 cup to 1 1/2 cups of chocolate chips :)

This part is what gets me... you have to cook it for about 1 hour and 10 minutes. I know, long! But make sure you keep checking up on it. The one today cooked a lot faster.. well, not a lot faster.. but it took about 52 minutes!

I hope you enjoy it as much as my roommates and I did :)