hector’s take on ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Angel Food Cake Base Recipe (page 154) is on a shallow 1″ pan. the texture was less airy than baked on a traditional angel food cake tube pan, but i think it made a ‘perfect’ layer ‘sponge’ cake frosted with the most delicate chocolate ganache: it was very delicious [...]

hector’s take on ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Angel Food Cake Base Recipe (page 154) is on a shallow 1″ pan. my observation is that most sponge cakes bake very well on sheet pans.  it seams that for angel food cake, there is a considerable amount of deflation when not cooled inverted.

once again, as i whip egg whites into meringue for ROSE’S heavenly CAKES: Angel Food Cake Base Recipe (page 154), meringue whips best when using old egg whites! most all eggs you buy are old already (at least 10 days old from been laid), so no worries.  HOWEVER, freshly laid eggs will never whip: the [...]