One of my favourite cakes to make is Angel Food. And my favourite bit of the cake? The super crunchy brown pieces on the top, that just barely don’t overflow onto the floor of the oven . . . where the other dead cakes lay.
As a kid, I used to hate Angel Food. Whenever my mom would make this cake, I would feel gipped out of a real cake. I always craved the super fatty cake! Can you tell I have a weight problems?! Haha. No, seriously.
Now, I crave the taste of THIS cake! I’m not sure how my taste buds have changed to love angel food . . . I guess the same way they changed to love squash, eggplant, cooked cauliflower, and cilantro.
Angel Food Confetti, with whipping cream frosting! Mmmmm! The best part about Angel Food is that it is mostly fat free! Ummm, not so sugar free . . . or fat free with the whipping cream, but I guess it’s better than a regular cake!
Somehow, someone (perhaps moi?) needs to invent a sugar free, fat free cake (with icing!) that TASTES great. Hmmm, I smell a mission! I’ll call it “spring cleaning” . . . cleaning out the sugar and the fat! I’ll be sure to post if I can figure it out.
HELP! What did I just say? Do you have any good recipes for a “healthy” cake?
Bail me out if you can, but for now, back to the post . . . Angel Food Cookies. At first, I didn’t think it would be possible to turn a runny cake mix into a cookie, but it was! All you need to take is one box of your favourite angel food batter (funfetti, hello!), add 1/2 cup of diet rootboor, mix it up and scoop it out! Super simple!
Angel Food Cookies
(adapted from Home Cook’n)
Ingredients:
1 box of angel food mix
1/2 cup of diet rootbeer (or any flavour diet pop of your choosing . . . you can even use water)
1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 F. Mix all ingredients together well. Drop by muffin scoop on to lined cookie sheet. Bake for 6-8 minutes, or until cookies are JUST browned. *The original recipe said to make sure they didn’t turn brown, and stay white, but to me when I did this, those cookies seemed underbaked. I recommend that you let them brown just slightly. Store in an airtight container.
Too light . . .
Just right . . .
If you’re like me, you would top these babies with strawberry whipping cream! Mix together a 1:2 ratio of strawberry yogurt to whipping cream and you have a sweet topping for these cake cookies.
Next time I am going to let these cookies bake for a couple of minutes longer than I even did . . . get them nice and brown and crispy. I’m still craving the crunchy taste of the cake top that didn’t die 😉
In an effort to further the success of future angel food cookie endeavours, I will share my story.
I used the funfetti angel food cake mix (sitting in my shelf just asking to be used). Having no diet root beer, I used sparkling grape juice. Don’t do that, it was awful!
BUT, after reading of the trials and tribulations of your readers whose cookies stuck to the cookie sheet, I greased AND floured mine. I am happy to report that the cookies slid right off the sheets and looked as an angel food cake cookie should!
They just tasted awful…
TC
Diane
These are great!! I baked them in 3 batches: the first ones came out waaaaaay too big, the next batch was pretty good but stuck to the pan a little, the third batch was perfect. With the last batch I let them cool for a bit before I took them off the pan and they came off perfectly.
You may have to try a couple of times to get them how you want but it’s worth the effort!
Oh and I used diet sprite 🙂
That’s great to learn! Thanks so much for sharing!
OMG!!! So I came REALLY close to not making these. I am allergic to aspartame, and therefore can’t do diet soda. I decided to try it with regular root beer and see what happened. It was AWESOME! My whole house loves these cookies a lot. I will saw that I always use silicone baking sheets to make cookies, and they are not enough for these. I sprayed the silicone with pam after the first tray, and yes, a littler browner is better.
Thank you so much for sharing these awesome, easy cookies!
I made these tonight because I had some angel food cake mix and I’m not a huge fan of plain angel food cake. These cookies were phenomenal! The diet root beer added an awesome dimension of flavor. I kept mine in until very lightly browned (I think it ended up being about 12 minutes in my oven). My only complaint was that the cookies really stuck to the parchment paper I used. I know next time to spray/grease the parchment paper. Thanks for this recipe! Such a better use of angel food cake mix than an actual angel food cake LOL!
I’m glad you liked the recipe! Thanks for letting me know.
Well, Mine Turned Out Like Crap…Didnt Even Look Like Cookies AndThey Were Sticky. Thanks Agin But Ill.Never Try This Again.
Score 1-10..10 Being The Higest.
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Sorry to hear that. Practice makes perfect!
I love this idea! I also think the top of the angel food cake is the best part:-)