angel food cake

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Permalink Reply by Karen Marie on August 12, 2010 at 2:03pm

You can but here are the challenges:

1. Bake the cake in as deep a pan as you can find and do NOT grease the pan at all or the cake wont rise properly..it has to grab on to the sides to rise...

2. After the cake is baked you have to turn it upside down and prop it up so that the top of the cake isnt touching anything or the cake will fall and be dense

3. Angel food doesnt have the structure to hold up under heavy icing or frosting and certainly not fondant. You might try adding dowels or plastic drinking straws to support the cake if you place fondant on it but you may have to place alot and will interfere with cutting it

You could ask them if they would mind having angel food cupcakes and then you could decorate the tops easily and they probably wont have to be turned upside down. You will have to cool them on a rack. I would suggest you practice a little before you make them for the wedding.And if you use cupcake liners use the foil ones without the paper liners or they will stick badly.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Good on August 12, 2010 at 10:56pm

thanks for the advise, i will do my best. i guess we will just have to see . . . thanks again

Karen Marie said:

You can but here are the challenges:

1. Bake the cake in as deep a pan as you can find and do NOT grease the pan at all or the cake wont rise properly..it has to grab on to the sides to rise...

2. After the cake is baked you have to turn it upside down and prop it up so that the top of the cake isnt touching anything or the cake will fall and be dense

3. Angel food doesnt have the structure to hold up under heavy icing or frosting and certainly not fondant. You might try adding dowels or plastic drinking straws to support the cake if you place fondant on it but you may have to place alot and will interfere with cutting it

You could ask them if they would mind having angel food cupcakes and then you could decorate the tops easily and they probably wont have to be turned upside down. You will have to cool them on a rack. I would suggest you practice a little before you make them for the wedding.And if you use cupcake liners use the foil ones without the paper liners or they will stick badly.

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Good on August 16, 2010 at 5:41pm

Just an update, i baked the angel food cake in a 14" x 2" pan at 25 deg lower than it called for and it turned out fine. i turned it upside down propped up on two large bowls. i made two of them, put buttercream in between and then iced it also on the outside with buttercream. it did just fine. i did put plastic cake dowels, 1/2" i think, in the bottom layer but i think it would have been ok with out them. i also put a live flower center piece on it but placed it in one corner. it stood up and was an outside wedding in 90+ degree heat. I was amazed and expecting the worse but it all turned out good. thanks again for your advice.

Melissa Good said:

thanks for the advise, i will do my best. i guess we will just have to see . . . thanks again

Karen Marie said:

You can but here are the challenges:

1. Bake the cake in as deep a pan as you can find and do NOT grease the pan at all or the cake wont rise properly..it has to grab on to the sides to rise...

2. After the cake is baked you have to turn it upside down and prop it up so that the top of the cake isnt touching anything or the cake will fall and be dense

3. Angel food doesnt have the structure to hold up under heavy icing or frosting and certainly not fondant. You might try adding dowels or plastic drinking straws to support the cake if you place fondant on it but you may have to place alot and will interfere with cutting it

You could ask them if they would mind having angel food cupcakes and then you could decorate the tops easily and they probably wont have to be turned upside down. You will have to cool them on a rack. I would suggest you practice a little before you make them for the wedding.And if you use cupcake liners use the foil ones without the paper liners or they will stick badly.

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Permalink Reply by Renay Zamora on May 31, 2011 at 11:11am

I'm so glad to read this!

I have a wedding cake this weekend that's angel food and I was wondering how to go about this...

When you propped the cake up, can you explain how you did that?  How big were the bowls?  Was the cake still on the pan?  I'm confused.

Thanks in advance!

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