Angel Cake

In order to make this cake, we had to make a trip to Divertimenti on Marylebone High Street to buy an angel cake tin which was very exciting. It is the most amazing baking shop ever. We spent nearly an hour in there deciding which one we wanted and looking at the other stuff that they sell.

Once we had eventually bought it and returned home, I started baking. It is an easy enough cake but the type of sponge is quite different. The sponge is made using icing sugar instead of caster sugar and it has 8 egg whites thus it is virtually fat free. But apart from that it is a very normal sponge in terms of ingredients.

All the ingredients are whisked together so that they are a creamy smooth mixture which is very pale. It is then baked in its really cool tin.

The cake itself is very white when baked and has quite a strange consistency which you either love or find a bit weird. It is served with blueberries which contrasts the white-ness of the cake well. 

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