Healthy Angel Food Cake |Heavenly Angel Food Cake

 Heavenly Angel Food Cake Recipe

Ingredients


    12 eggs
    1 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
    1 cup all-purpose flour
    1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
    1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
    1/2 teaspoon almond extract
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1 cup sugar



Directions

1. Enter into a glass, until you have 1-3/4 cups egg whites. Let stand for at least 30 minutes to reach room temperature.
2. The oven rack in lower-middle position; Preheat oven to 325.
3. Sifted powdered sugar and flour. Sieving repeated twice. Set aside.
4. Bowl, using the MED-low a separate manual egg beater egg whites until they broke up, and starts to bubble. New tartar and salt paste on medium speed, beat until soft peaks form. Mixer running, gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon. Add extract and continue to fight until stiff peaks, still shiny - be careful not to overbeat.
5. Pastry on top sprinkle with sugar mixture 1/4 cup filver / flour, a large rubber spatula to gently times, until the sugar / flour disappears. Repeat, adding the remaining cup of sugar and fold / flour 1/4 the mixture. Gently pour the batter ungreased10 inch tube pan. Rap anti-pot several times, to remove large air bubbles.
6. Bake for 45-55 minutes until dry and cracked behind the back when gently touched. Immediately by inverting the pot for the neck of the bottle or line 2 hours, until completely cooled cake. Loosen edges of cake from the pan with a knife. Cut a light sawing motion, using a serrated knife.

Greek Easter Food | Menu, Candle and Celebration

Greek Easter Food |Greek Easter Cookies from Smyrna


INGREDIENTS

    2 cups butter
    1 1/2 cups white sugar
    4 egg yolks
    1/2 cup milk or orange juice
    8 cups sifted all-purpose flour
    2 teaspoons baking powder
    1 tablespoon grated orange rind
    1 egg

METHOD

Preparations for Easter come to a climax toward the end of Holy Week, between Palm Sunday and Easter. While there are many local customs associated with Easter, there are several observed by all.

Holy (or Great) Thursday

Greek Easter Candle

Various rituals are associated with the observance of Greek Easter celebration and one of the most prominent traditions of this festival is the custom of presenting Greek Easter candles to friends or little ones of the family The traditional Greek Easter candles are

known as paschal candle, symbolizing the rise of Jesus. It is commonly used in liturgical communities during the Great Fifty Days of Easter. Special Greek Easter candles are very large, always inscribed with a cross and the date of the current year, in Greek signifying that the Lord is present and will be so forever till eternity.

Also five grains of aroma, symbolizing the five wounds of Christ, are compressed into the arms and center of the cross in the candle with pins or nails.