Angel Food Cake with Strawberry Filling

Angel Food  Cake with Strawberry Filling  is undeniably the perfect summer dessert.

Now that it’s officially summer, I’m in full-blown summer swing (ha, as if I wasn’t before) and this cake is MY LIFE. With the 4th of July quickly approaching, I am looking for all the excuses to eat all the berry filled desserts.

Since I was a little girl, it’s been my jam. My brother and I spent every summer with our grandparents, both sets in fact, as they lived across the field from each other. Quintessential Iowa. For six weeks we went back and forth, staying with cousins, jumping in pools, and eating all the Angel Food Cake filled with strawberries.

My Grandma would make this cake and I would (rather impatiently) wait until it was time to have a slice. And then another. And then another as a before bedtime snack. Obsessed is an understatement.

Nowadays, I generally don’t need an entire bundt pan of angel food cake. Well, I mean, I do, but I don’t have my younger self’s metabolism these days, ya feel me? So first change: angel food loaf cake. Still airy, fluffy, and delicately sweet, just a smaller portion that doesn’t leave you riddled with guilt as you eat the entire thing, in one day, by yourself. Not that I’d know anything about that.

I also decided to make a homemade angel food cake opposed to a box – no mystery ingredients here! It’s easier than I expected (why has it taken me years to get around to doing myself?!). So never fear, if you’re hesitant about the homemade kind! Angel food cake does require quite a few egg whites and beating, but absolutely worth it. My tidbit of advice: despite how tempting it is, you do want to be careful to not over beat the egg whites. Otherwise you’ll end up with a pretty flat cake.

The other trick to ensuring your cake stays tall and light? Cool it upside down, resting on some cans, for about an hour. This will prevent the cake from deflating. You also want to either use a regular loaf pan (not non-stick) or line the pan with foil so the batter can “crawl” up the pan.

Onto the filling! My other favorite part. Naturally, I had to do something a little different. In lieu of my grandma’s usual jello filling, I use agar agar, also featured in my Summer Strawberry Pie. Agar Agar is the perfect vegetable substitute for gelatin. Once the filling is set, cut off the top of the cake, scoop out the inside, and fill it up with the sweet strawberries. Are you with me? This means that all your hard baking work pays off, because you get to eat the center of the cake! #winning!

The “frosting” is just as light, airy, and delicately sweet as the cake itself – it’s just whipped cream! Strawberries AND angel food cake AND whipped cream? This is what summer dreams are made of. Every. Single. One.

Speaking of summer dreams, I mentioned the 4th of July coming up SO soon (summer stop disappearing so quickly!!!). This strawberry angel food cake is THE cake for the 4th. It’s festive, has the surprise strawberry filling, and you can totally add some blueberries for additional red, white, and blue decoration. Food blogger fail that I didn’t showcase that, but you’re my creative food friends and I totally have faith you can make it happen!

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