Angel Food Cake with Blueberry Glaze

This timeless angel food cake with a creamy fruity glaze is tender and light as cloud. Enjoy it plain, with seasonal fruit and a dollop of homemade whipped cream, or with a berry glaze. This cake is sure to wow everyone at dinner. The recipe is actually pretty easy, the only tedious task is to separate 12 eggs and the only special piece of equipment you’ll need is a angel food tube pan which helps give angel food cake its lift thanks to the high sides and center hole. Use the egg yolks to make omelette, lemon curd or ice cream.

Cake	Blueberry Glaze
140 g Cake flour (or 100 g ap flour+40 g cornstarch) 125 g Powdered sugar 12 Large egg whites (about 400 g), at room temperature 1½ tsp Cream of tartar 1/4 tsp Sea salt 200 g White granulated sugar 1 tsp Vanilla extract	100 g Fresh or frozen blueberries 2 tbsp Lemon juice 2 tbsp Butter, softened 180 g Powdered sugar Some freeze-dried blueberries, to garnish Mint leaves, to garnish

Preheat oven to 180C/350F and have a 10-inch angel food cake pan ready. Don’t grease or line. Sift together cake flour and powdered sugar. Set aside.
Add egg whites, cream of tartar and salt into the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, whip on medium-low until foamy, about 45-60 seconds. Then gradually add in white granulated sugar, a tablespoon at a time. Once all the sugar is added in, continue to whip until you reach soft peaks that hold their shape, 5-6 minutes. Add the vanilla extract, then beat just until incorporated.
In 4 additions, sift the flour mixture into the meringue, gently folding with a rubber spatula after each addition until just combined.
Spread the cake batter into the ungreased pan and cut through batter with a knife to remove air pockets. Smooth down the surface. Bake in the lower middle of hot oven for 45-50 minutes until lightly browned and slowly springs back when you touch it.
Remove from the oven and immediately invert pan to cool completely, about 2 hours. Run a knife around side and center tube of pan. Remove cake to a serving plate.
In a small saucepan, add blueberries and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the blueberries burst and release their juices, about 5 minutes.
Remove from heat, and strain the mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium-sized bowl, pressing on the solids to extract as much liquid as possible. You should have about 5-6 tablespoons of liquid. Stir in softened butter and whisk the powdered sugar into the strained blueberry mixture until smooth.
Slowly pour glaze over the cake, covering the top and allowing some to run down the sides. Garnish with freeze-dried blackberries and mint leaves. Slice with a long, serrated knife and serve.

22 comments:

Lucimar da Silva Moreira 3/7/25 13:16: Angie que delicia esse bolo 🎂 que vontade de comer ele, Angie tenha uma ótima quinta-feira bjs.
Tom 3/7/25 13:18: ...Angie, such a sweet treat!
Christine 3/7/25 13:45: Looks yummy
David M. Gascoigne, 3/7/25 13:47: I am salivating, I am envious, I want some right now! Might have to be content with a blueberry muffin - but that’s not so bad!
Ananka 3/7/25 14:15: That looks super amazing :-D
Lola Martínez 3/7/25 14:21: Un bizcocho delicioso, más aún con ese glaseado, uno de mis preferidos porque la mermelada de arándanos me encanta y será muy parecido.
Carol @Comfort Spring Station 3/7/25 14:27: Angel food cake was my sister's favorite growing up. I think she'd like the glaze too.
kathyinozarks 3/7/25 14:38: Gorgeous cake! I usually make my Grandma's angel food cake that uses the yolks and the whites whipped seperately
DEZMOND 3/7/25 15:14: Oooh, that is very pretty, dear, nice addition with the glaze, who does not like blauberren in die sommer? It is 40C here again, so no baking for me, when I have to I go to the basement where I put an old oven LOL baking like a Hobbit underground....
Linda's Relaxing Lair 3/7/25 16:56: It looks beautiful 😍
Pam 3/7/25 17:25: I haven't had angel food cake for years. This blueberry glazed one looks beautiful and delicious.
Anne in the kitchen 3/7/25 18:14: What a pretty cake! Angel food is perfect for our hot summers (not so much the oven heat from baking it though.
lolines 3/7/25 20:08: Una delicia!!!!.
Saludos.
Anonymous 3/7/25 21:50: What a gorgeous cake and who doesn't love angel food cake? It was my MILs favourite but sadly, she never made it from scratch, always a mix so I assumed it was a difficult recipe to make successfully. Boy was I wrong! I have made many angel food cakes over the years but this blueberry glaze takes it over the top. It's a lovely, light summer cake.
Eva Taylor 3/7/25 21:51: I just noticed that I commented anonymously, sorry about that!
Balvinder 3/7/25 22:53: Looking so yummy!
Garfield 4/7/25 00:17: Esse bolo de anjo parece bem leve... Acho que como uns três! rsrsrsrs

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My name is Erika. 4/7/25 00:44: That cake is so pretty, and I love the idea of blueberry glaze.
Brian's Home Blog 4/7/25 01:07: Beautiful and no doubt delicious!
Ben | Havocinthekitchen 4/7/25 01:22: This cakes looks beautiful - almost too beautiful to eat (but I won't hesitate anyway haha)
roentare 4/7/25 02:37: This is mouth watering
Tandy | Lavender and Lime (http://tandysinclair.com) 4/7/25 05:51: The glaze makes this cake so pretty!