Recipe for cooking cappuccino angel food cake with italian meringue

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Cappuccino Angel Food Cake with Italian Meringue

Here is a devilishly low in fat angel food cake!

1 1/2 c. sifted cake flour
1 3/4 c. sugar
3 Tbsp. instant cappuccino coffee drink
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
14 egg whites at room temperature
Pin. salt
1 tsp. cream of tartar
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
Cocoa powder for sprinkling

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

Sift flour into a dry mixing bowl. Sift sugar, cinnamon and cappuccino coffee powder together into a separate bowl and set both aside.

Using a copper or stainless steel bowl, beat egg whites first until foamy. At this point add salt and cream of tartar if using stainless steel bowl and then beat egg whites to soft peaks.

Gently fold in sugar cappuccino powder mixture into egg whites with rubber spatula. Next, fold flour in to egg white and sugar mixture in 2 batches. Now, gently fold in vanilla and almond extract or flavoring into batter. When all has been incorporated, pour batter into a 10-in. non-stick tube pan and smooth out top.

Bake for approximately an 1 hour and 15 mins. or until cake is creamy coffee brown color and top springs back when gently touched with finger and/or a wooden skewer comes out clean. Cool cake upside down in pan.

When cool, remove cake from pan and frost with Italian Meringue and sprinkle with cocoa powder if desired.

Yield: 14 servings at approximately 273 calories; 0.6 gram total fat; 0 milligrams cholesterol; 62 grams carbohydrate; 0.2gram dietary fiber; 5.6 grams protein; 135 milligrams sodium

Italian Meringue
1 1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. water
4 egg whites at room temperature
Pin. cream of tartar

In a sm. heavy-bottom pan dissolve sugar with water over low heat. Increase heat to med. and cook until sugar syrup reaches 239 degrees F on a candy thermometer.

As sugar syrup approaches desired temperature, beat egg whites at room temperature in a copper or stainless steal bowl until foamy; add cream of tartar if using stainless bowl and beat until soft peaks form. Slowly pour hot syrup onto egg whites and beat on high speed until bowl feels cool to the touch.

Use immediately or refrigerate in a covered container for up to 24 hours.

Yield 3 1/2 c. or 14 (1/4 c.) servings at approximately 88 calories; 0 fat; 0 milligrams cholesterol; 21.5 grams carbohydrate; 0.3 gram dietary fiber; 1 gram protein; 17 milligrams sodium