Angel Food Cake

For me it was not my birthday unless I had an angel food cake. I always loved how light they tasted. I would eat 1/4 of the cake and it was the best thing ever. The tradition still lives on. My husbands birthday is on Tuesday and guess what I am making an angel food cake!Angel Food Cake

1 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 cup cake flour
1 ½ cups large egg whites (about 12)
1 ½ teaspoons cream of tartar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 ½ tsp. vanilla
½ tsp. almond extract
¼ tsp. salt

1. Move oven rack to lowest position. Heat oven to 375 F.
2. In medium bowl, mix powdered sugar and flour; set aside. In a large bowl, beat egg whites and cream of tartar with kitchenaid mixer on medium speed until foamy. Beat in granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, on high speed, adding vanilla, almond extract and salt with the last addition of sugar. Continue beating until stiff and glossy. Do not under beat.
3. Sprinkle powdered sugar-flour mixture, ¼ cup at a time, over egg white mixture, folding in with rubber spatula just until sugar-flour mixture disappears. Push batter into ungreased 10 x 4 inch angel food cake pan (tube pan). Cut gently through batter with metal spatula or knife to break air pockets.
4. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until cracks feel dry and top springs back when touched lightly. Immediately turn pan upside down onto heat-proof funnel or bottle. Let hang about 2 hours or until cake is completely cool. Loosen side of cake with knife or long metal spatula; remove from pan.
5. Spread or drizzle Lemon glaze over top of cake.

*Note: To cool angel food cake, immediately turn pan upside down onto heatproof bottle or funnel (plastic funnel can be wrapped with foil to make heat proof).

Lemon Glaze

2 cups powdered sugar
1 ½ tsp. lemon juice
2 to 4 tablespoons lemon juice

In a large bowl pour lemon juice on top of sugar. Miss in until it is smooth. Pour over cake

Caramel Corn

There is nothing better than fresh caramel corn. It melts in your mouth it is so yummy. As a family we love making this treat together. We pop fresh popcorn into the largest bowl we can find. We make fresh caramel. We all have stir as fast as we can with wooden spoons. We work as fast as possible . It is one of our favorite treats.

1 cup butter
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup corn syrup
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups corn kernels

1. In an air popcorn machine. Pop the popcorn into a large bowl.
2. In a saucepan combine butter, sugar, corn syrup, and salt. Let it boil and constantly stir for about a few minutes.
3. Add baking soda to caramel mixture.
   
4. Put caramel and popcorn into a large brown bag and shake it up.
5. Lay caramel on parchment paper and let it dry.
   

Cake Cookies

I love cake cookies. They have found their way into my sister and my mouth on several occasions. They have a way of brightening up the day. They taste so yummy. They are so sweet. I love these cookies. They are also the easiest thing to make ever.

Cake Cookies
Box of your favorite cake mix
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
Favorite Frosting

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F
   
2. Mix together cake mix, butter, and eggs
3. Roll into individual 1 inch balls
   
4. Bake for about 10 minutes
   
5. Let cool
   
6. Frost and enjoy
   

Dad's Chocolate Chip Cookies

When I think of Sunday, when I think of home, I think of my dad's chocolate chip cookies. He taught us all to make these cookies. We memorized the recipe. We would eat most of the dough. We know that when they have lines in the middle that they are ready. We brought them to school. We won over boys with my fathers cookies. My dad brought them to his friends. My mother loves them and jokes that she would be ten pounds lighter without my dad's chocolate chip cookies.

1 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown
3 cups flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
1 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
Lots of chocolate chips

Preheat the to 325 degrees F

Combine all ingredients but chocolate chips
Add chocolate chips and form them into about 1 inch balls
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the top has cracks
Cool and enjoy