This light and fluffy angel food cake recipe is grain-free and made with healthy, whole food ingredients. Perfect for a birthday party or potluck.
Light and fluffy with tongue tantalizing texture, angel food cake is an all-time favorite, especially for birthday parties and special occasions like Mother’s Day!
Dolores Clark, a great-grandmother who lives in Dade City Florida devised the ingenious, grain-free angel food cake recipe below.
It is tested by her grandkids who give it a big thumbs up!
Homemade angel food cake is a delicious way to use any pastured raw egg whites left from making egg yolk-only recipes such as , creme brulee, homemade pudding, or breakfast smoothies!
Whatever you do, skip the chemical and additive-loaded liquid egg replacer from the store!
Flavor and Texture
This grain-free angel food cake has a lovely caramel flavor and is moister than regular angel food cake.
While it has a similar texture, it does not rise quite as high as regular angel food cake made with wheat.
Preparation and Serving Suggestions
This recipe for homemade powdered sugar contains a video demonstration of how to create a fine texture using coarse, unrefined coconut sugar or sucanat. This is an important step in the recipe method below.
It would be a good idea to serve each slice of cake with a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream or a drizzle of heavy grassfed cream.
This addition will provide plenty of healthy fats to compensate for the carbs in the cake.
Fluffy Angel Food Cake Recipe
This recipe for light and fluffy angel food cake is gluten and grain-free, using only healthy, whole food ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 cup arrowroot powder
- 1 1/2 cups coconut palm sugar
- 1 1/2 cups egg whites about 12
- 1 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
Instructions
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Run coconut palm sugar through the food processor to achieve a fine texture. Mix coconut flour, arrowroot powder, and 1/2 cup of the superfine sugar in a bowl with a wire whip and set aside.
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In a second bowl, whip egg whites, cream of tartar and salt until foamy but not stiff. Slowly add (2 Tbsp at a time) the remaining 1 cup of superfine coconut sugar. Whip until stiff peaks form.
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Fold in vanilla and almond extract. With a rubber scraper or whisk, carefully fold the flour mixture into the egg whites mixture adding 2-3 Tbsp at a time.
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Put into a greased stainless steel tube pan. Bake at 375 °F/ 191 °C for 30-35 min or until the top of the cake springs back when lightly touched.
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Remove angel food cake from oven and invert on a large platter to cool and gently release from the pan.
More Healthy Cakes to Try!
Love light and fluffy traditionally made cakes and breads? Try these recipes too!
- Paleo Honey Bread (just like Sara Lee pound cake)
- Chocolate chip cookie cake recipe
- Devils food cake
- Gluten-free Carrot cake recipe
I have shredded coconut (and lots of it). Can I make coconut flour from that? If so, how?
Oh, my! Thinking that with fresh strawberries and real whipped cream…YUMMY!!! Can not wait to try this!!!
Any ideas for an icing/glaze?
This is so wonderful. I used to make angel food cake all the time until we found out my son cant have gluten. Cant wait to try this out.
Can’t wait for someone to make this and report back!! I will be trying it some time next week!
Yummy!
This looks like an easy and very tasty cake to make. It is definitely a recipe to try.
oh thank you!!!! I will look at Bob’s Red Mill first and then if not I will check your Amazon store!!! thanks!
HELP! there are sooooo many recipes with arrowroot powder and I cannot find it ANYWHERE! I bought some at the health food store and they charge $11 for a tiny little jar (spice jar size!) Someone told me to look at an Asian market and I went to 3 and no one had any and don’t get any in! agggg! I really want to make this for the hubs and toddler… anything else I could use?!
I get 1 lb bags made by Bob’s Red Mill for about $6. You can order at my Amazon store if you can’t find it locally (4 bags for $23.99 which is about what I pay at the healthfood store):
I get it through Azure. You’d have to compare the price to see if it’s better.
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You can also order a lot of baking stuff (healthy versions, mostly organic) from http://www.mountainroseherbs.com
I order arrowroot powder from them in bigger bags because I use it as baby powder for my day care infants. No talc on these baby bottoms!
Try a store that sells herbs and spices in their bulk area. My Whole Foods does this. You just scoop a bit into a small plastic baggie and it’s charged by weight. Much cheaper than buying a LOT when you don’t use it too often:)
That looks great! I would prefer the caramelized flavor 🙂
Recipe correction: The Arrowroot is 1/3 cup + 2 Tbls.
Sorry Sarah for forgetting the word cup after the 1/3…..
Thanks Dorsey. I’ve fixed it now.