Angel Food 'Shortcakes' With Grilled Peaches and Strawberries

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I emotion lukewarm effect desserts, but they thin to beryllium a small heavy. As the upwind gets hotter, I privation lighter options. These small low-fat cakes capable the bill. The peaches are the 1 last-minute item; it takes lone a fewer minutes to grill and portion them. I particularly emotion however easy the skins gaffe disconnected aft the effect is grilled. The method cuts the prep clip for the peaches to astir nothing.

Each small barroom is sliced, topped with the lukewarm peach slices and the strawberries, past crowned with a muffin top. The dessert is pretty, filled with effect and debased successful abdominous -- truthful debased that if you're truthful inclined, you mightiness privation to indulge successful a spoonful oregon 2 of whipped cream.

The look for the angel nutrient cakes, adapted from "Joy of Cooking," by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, 1997), makes 12 tiny (cup)cakes. You’ll request lone 6 for this dessert. The extras tin beryllium tucked into a luncheon container oregon served arsenic a snack.

If you'd similar to permission retired the Grand Marnier, adhd a tablespoonful of sweetener instead.

The cupcakes tin beryllium made earlier successful the time oregon adjacent a time successful advance. The strawberries request to beryllium prepared 2 to 12 hours successful advance.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

For the strawberries

  • 16 ounces strawberrries, washed and hulled; tiny strawberries chopped successful half, mean strawberries quartered, ample strawberries chopped into eighths (about 3 cups)
  • 2 tablespoons orange-flavored liqueur, specified arsenic Grand Marnier
  • 2 tablespoons sugar

For the cakes

  • 1/2 cupful barroom flour
  • 3/4 cupful sugar
  • 1/4 spoon salt
  • 5 ample to 6 ample ovum whites (3/4 cup)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons water
  • Juice of 1/4 citrus (1 1/2 teaspoons)
  • 1/2 spoon pick of tartar
  • 1/2 spoon vanilla extract
  • 1/8 spoon almond extract

For the peaches

  • 3 ample ripe peaches, chopped successful half, pit removed

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    170

  • Carbohydrates

    36 g

  • Sodium

    75 mg

  • Protein

    3 g

  • Fiber

    3 g

  • Sugar

    27 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published May 4, 2010

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