This recipe is entirely for Ami, who harvests her own eggs. OK, she doesn't actually harvest but her kids do. She's a city girl with chickens. Egg collecting is not in her cards.
To use eggs, I go immediately for something sweet. And that sweet is an angel food cake. Most people eat the boxed or pre-made variety but there is something amazing about from scratch. Ingredients are:
12 egg whites (save the yolks for other recipes, I'll post some)
1.5 t cream of tartar 1 vanilla bean
Beat these together until the eggs form a soft peak consistency. Slowly add 1 cup of sugar and beat until hard peaks form.
Separately, sift together 1.5 cups POWDERED sugar and 1 cup (minus 2 T.) flour. Fold dry into the egg mixture.
Pour into an angel food cake pan (or two bread pans) and bake at 350 for roughly 40 minutes. Once it's done, invert over a bottle to cool for an hour.
Carefully get it out of pan, cut, serve and eat. I put some sweet cocoa (Gheradelli) in half to make it partially chocolate. Yumm!

Thanks D!! Angel food cake is one of my families favorites.
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