black & white angel food cake
8 servings
1 1/3 cupscake flour, sifted
½ cupsuperfine sugar, sifted
1½ cupsegg whites, room temperature
¾ teaspoonkosher salt
1½ teaspoonscream of tartar
1½ cupssuperfine sugar, sifted
1 teaspoonvanilla extract
2 ouncessemisweet chocolate, coarsely grated
[GLAZE]
8 ouncessemisweet chocolate chips
¾ cup plus 1 tablespoonheavy cream
  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Sift flour with ½ cup sugar.
  3. Whisk egg whites, salt, and cream of tartar to soft peaks.
  4. Add remaining 1½ cups sugar, beating until thick and shiny. Add vanilla.
  5. Fold flour mixture into egg whites in fourths. Fold in chocolate.
  6. Bake in ungreased tube pan for 35 to 45 minutes.
  7. Cool cake upside down on cooling rack. Remove cooled cake from pan.
  8. For glaze: Melt chocolate chips with cream over simmering water. Drizzle over cake.
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