What Is the Difference Between Angel Food Cake and Chiffon Cake?

Next,give the chocolate version a whirl.

Spoon batter into prepared pan, and smooth top with a small offset spatula.

Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake on a cake plate, with slices out to serve and cups of coffee alongside

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(Do not over-bake.

Cake will be a very pale golden color.)

Invert pan onto a bottle or wire rack to cool completely, about 2 hours.

Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake greasing bottom of pan

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Place cake on serving platter, and sift powdered sugar evenly over top.

Shingle or arrange orange slices on 1 side of cake, and serve.

Chiffon cakes are delicate and light with a spongy texture.

Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake stirring together the dry ingredients

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They are also only delicately sweetened.

The hole in the center of the tube pan also helps ensure the cake is evenly baked.

Just see to it it’s a 16-cup pan.

Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake making a well in the flour mixture to add wet ingredients

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Smaller pans may not be able to hold all of this cake.

Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake mixing the orange batter until smooth

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Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake whipping the egg whites to peaks

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Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake whipping the egg whites and sugar to stiff peaks

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Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake folding the egg whites into the orange batter

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Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake with the egg whites fully folded into the orange batter

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Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake batter in the pan before baking

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Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake on cooling grid after removing from the pan

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Southern Living Orange Chiffon Cake dusted with powdered sugar and garnished with orange slices

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