50th Birthday Cake Mary's Angel Food Cake

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Mary's Angel Food Cake

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If you are looking for 50th birthday cakes for men, try angel food cakes.  You can top them with fruit or a thin glace' icing that drizzles down the side.  These cakes are traditionally low in calories and if we occasionally have a slice of cake, and of course one on our birthday, :)  and we watch what we eat and exercise, this will go a long way in keeping our weight in check.

Ingredients:

1 cup cake flour

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Salt

8 egg whites

1/2 cup sugar

1 teaspoon orange-flavor or vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Sift flour two or three times with the cream of tartar. Add a pinch of salt to egg whites and beat as stiffly as possible. Sift sugar and mix it into beaten egg whites. Fold in the flour and cream of tartar mixture gradually, and then the orange-flavor or vanilla and almond extract. Keep the mixture as light as possible. Pour into a floured, ungreased angel cake pan. Cut through twice with a spatula and bake on the lowest rack of a preheated moderate oven (375)F. for 35 to 40 minutes. Test the cake with a fine skewer before removing it from the oven and do not allow it to become too brown. When ready, turn the cake upside down on a sheet of paper, and leave it until the pan can be slipped off easily. Serve cake with Glace' Icing.

Glace' Icing

1 1/2 cups of confectioners' sugar

1-2 tablespoons water or other liquid

Sift sugar into an enameled saucepan. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons water or other liquid and stir over a medium heat with a wooden spoon until warm. Do not let the icing get to hot or it will become lumpy. As sugar melts, icing becomes softer, so keep liquid to a minimum. Icing should be thick enough to coat back of wooden spoon. It will then be of the right consistency for coating a cake. If icing becomes too soft, stiffen it by adding a little more sieved icing sugar. But end result is better if this does not have to be done.

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