Angel Food Cake in sheet cake form topped with Lemon-Cream Cheese Frosting - Original recipe by Southern Living: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/heavenly-angel-food-cake.
Preheat oven to 375F. Position the oven rack 1/3 from the bottom of the oven.
Line a 13 x 9-inch pan with aluminum foil – allowing 2” overlap over the sides of the pan. Do NOT grease the pan or the foil.
Sift together sugar, flour & salt. Set aside.
With an electric mixer, beat egg white & cream of tartar on high until stiff peaks form.
Slowly, fold in the sugar/flour mixture, 1/3 cup at a time. Do not overmix – fold only until just blended after each addition.
Carefully, fold in vanilla and lemon juice.
Gently spoon batter into prepared pan. Note – batter will reach to the top or almost to the top of the pan.
Place the pan in the preheated 375F oven.
Bake 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Remove the cake from the oven and turn over and onto a very lightly floured (clean) cloth or onto a wire cooling rack that has been sprayed with cooking oil.
Let the cake cool with the pan in place until completely cooled – approximately 1 hour.
Once cake has cooled, remove the pan and peel off the foil.
Spread Lemon-Cream Cheese Frosting over the entire cake or cut the cake into pieces then frost.
Garnish with Holly Cupcake Decorations.
*See Notes for baking in other pans.
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For the Lemon-Cream Cheese Frosting:
Using a stand-mixer, beat cream cheese & butter at medium speed until creamy and light.
Add lemon juice and beat just until blended.
Gradually add powdered sugar on low speed just until blended then stir in lemon zest.
Reviews
Terry C on 2025-05-22 (5 stars): Hi I just made the recipe for Angel food cake. Different than other recipes. You just beat the whits with cream of tarter till stiff peaks. Other recipes slowly at the sugar to the egg whites. i used super fine sugar and cake flour. The batter out grew the 13x9. So tall, poofy and light. I cooled it an hour and it sort of sank in the middle. Could it be the cake flour? I love the flavor, really delicious!! But help me if you can with the reason it was so much in the pan and why it sank down when I removed the pan and foil. Should I have let it cool till completely cold? I am making it again for a birthday party on Fathers Day 2025. Id love a reply befor then so I can try again.
Thank you so much.
Kat on 2025-03-29 (5 stars): How did you cut the cut so nice and neat squares
Becky (The Cookie Rookie) on 2014-12-04 (5 stars): BEAUTIFUL!!!! This just looks so festive and perfect!
Linda (Meal Planning Maven) on 2014-12-03 (5 stars): I never thought of making an angel food cake in a rectangular pan...how creative! And your cake is lovely!
