Angel Food Cupcakes

[ClareScifi]

I'm craving homemade angel food cake, made using my hens' fresh eggs. But I don't have a full-sized oven, only a little toaster oven.

So do you think I could find an angel food cake recipe that would work for making cupcakes? That's the only sized pan that will fit in my toaster oven.

Is there such a thing as an angel food cupcake recipe? I was thinking traditional angel food cake batter might not do right in a cupcake tin, since you use the special angel food cake pans to make angel food cake?

 

[Yay Chicks!]

I've never made them, but if you google "Angel food cupcake recipe from scratch", you will come up with some recipes. Sounds wonderful!

 

[ClareScifi]

Thanks, Yay Chicks! They are in the oven baking right now. I found this super easy recipe:

http://cupcakesandcrinoline.com/2009/02/angel-food-cupcakes-light-and-easy/

I fed the yolks to the cats. I'll bet their fur will really shine!

I accidentally poured a bit too much almond extract in the recipe (I substituted one t of it for the vanilla extract), so I'm thinking they'll be really tasty. They sure smell good baking!

I figure it's a great way to celebrate the 1st Day of Spring and my 25-week old rooster's finally taking his first dust bath! I guess that is how he is celebrating his first Spring Equinox-- with his very first dust bath! In the past, he's only taken baths in dirty pine shavings. LOL.

 

[Yay Chicks!]

Enjoy! Your post reminded me of the angel food cakes my mother used to make and top with fresh strawberries. Mmmmm...

 

[ClareScifi]

Yummy! Strawberries and angel food cake are perfect together! I need to buy some strawberries. Oh, I have strawberry plants that should start producing, if the chickens don't get to them first.

I didn't have any strawberries, but I found pink frosting, cherry-flavored, to put on the cupcakes. I think pink frosting is so pretty on angel food cakes.

Recently, I went to Orson Gygi and found angel-shaped lollipop molds. Next time I make a regular angel food cake for a church potluck, I am going to put white chocolate in the molds and set the candy angels atop my angelfood cake. I will frost it white. I think that will look so cute, and then sprinkle the whole thing with coconut, and maybe put coconut in the lollipop molds to look like angel feathers.

 

[ClareScifi]

Question: We just had 6 cupcakes to eat, and they were so tasty warm from the oven.

Do you think the batter would hold over if I put it in the fridge for baking later, or do you think I should bake the remainder of the cupcakes now? I'm not sure whether the batter would stay light and poofy like it is now, if I put it in the fridge?

 

[Oregon Blues]

You could always try it and see what happens, but I suspect because angle food depends so much on trapped air that your batter would go flat if you try to store it.

 

[ClareScifi]

I think you are probably right, Oregon Blues. I baked them all up yesterday and just devoured 3 for breakfast, with my coffee. My goodness, they are tasty!