{"id":183,"date":"2016-01-03T10:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=183"},"modified":"2024-01-04T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:18:06","slug":"birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Anya’s 3rd Birthday Cake!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no idea what made me decide to make my first ever angel food cake for Anya’s birthday — so many things that\u00a0could have gone wrong with such a delicate cake. But eh, what’s life without some risk (well, and I could always make a quick carob “wacky” cake).<\/p>\n

Whipped the egg whites and castor sugar – along with some hazelnut extract<\/p>\n

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And then\u00a0very<\/em> gently folded in the flour mixture — I used a silicon spatula, and I was rather surprised how fluffy the batter was after adding the flour. I was really worried that it would\u00a0deflate. The batter is incredibly sweet — it’s basically sugar suspended in whipped egg white and enough flour to keep it\u00a0together. Uncooked, it\u00a0tastes a little like spun sugar.<\/p>\n

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Then I very carefully scooped it into a bundt pan (yeah, wrong kind of pan … but I didn’t have time to get the proper pan posted to me after I realized it wasn’t something you could just buy anywhere). Very gently placed the pan in the oven, and left the vicinity for an hour.<\/p>\n

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Voila! We\u00a0got an angel food cake! It is a super sweet cake, but it went very well with the lemon curd (which also used all of those egg yolks left over after making the cake!).<\/p>\n

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And it was very tasty!<\/p>\n

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I have no idea what made me decide to make my first ever angel food cake for Anya’s birthday — so many things that\u00a0could have gone wrong with such a delicate cake. But eh, what’s life without some risk (well, and I could always make a quick carob “wacky” cake). Whipped the egg whites and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3,22,1319,21,128,46],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-anya","tag-birthday","tag-cake","tag-cooking-2","tag-food","tag-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8516,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}