Easy Broiled Angel Food Cake

Easy Broiled angel food cake?  What, what?  That’s right, this is a delightful sweet dessert that is lightly toasted and practically melts in your mouth! 

You can make the cake yourself or go the semi-homemade route and purchase one from your favorite store or bakery.  Either way, you, your family, and friends will love, love this new sweet dessert.  

This is a easy cake to make and the ingredients are likely found in your pantry, refrigerator or with your baking supplies. Ingredients include: Cake Flour, Powdered Sugar, Egg Whites, Cream of Tatar, Granulated Sugar, Salt, Vanilla and Almond Extract. The steps to making this are found in this recipe. (create link to recipe)

After making the Cake allow it to cool completely then carefully remove it from the baking pan. You’ll need to decide on a shape; round or square. Then cut into your desired shape.

Most stores readily carry the circular Angel Food Cake.  The round cake is what we are most familiar with and are usually then sliced into wedge shapes.  But that won’t work for our recipe, as it will not brown evenly under the broiler.

I recommend a loaf cake. It slices up easily. Most stores will carry both types, but they may not be found within the same section or department.  

If you cannot find the loaf cake, I have a work around. Using a serrated knife slice straight through the entire round cake.  I like my slices to be about 2″ thick.  Then cut into about 4″ wide pieces.  

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Move your oven rack to its highest position and turn the broiler on high.  In a sauce-pan or microwave-safe bowl, melt the butter, and brush onto both sides of the sliced pieces.  Place onto a parchment paper-lined rimmed baking sheet and then into the oven.  Watch carefully and remove once side one is golden brown, flip the slices and return to oven to toast side two, then remove from oven.  

Let’s assume, you decide on semi homemade and opt for a pre-made Angel Food Cake, yep, I’m right there with you!  The other ingredients will include; pre-made whipped topping, or our Maple Cinnamon Whipped Cream Topping.

If you decide to whip up our Maple Cinnamon Whipped Cream Topping you’ll need the following ingredients; heavy whipped cream, real maple syrup, butter, powdered sugar, ground cinnamon. Our delicious Maple Cinnamon Whipped Cream Topping is out-of-this world yumminess and you’ll find that recipe here.

Place broiled angel food cake onto serving plates, add fresh fruit or pie filling, and add the whipped cream topping of your choice. 

This dessert is best when served while the cake is still toasty warm.  You can also preheat the fruit pie filling if desired.  

Your taste buds will explode with the toasted marshmallow flavors of the broiled cake!  The fruit or pie filling and whipped topping will be having you wanting seconds before you’ve finished your first!  

Broiled Angel Food Cake With Fruit and Whipped Cream Topping

This is a delicious spin on traditional Angel Food Cake.

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Equipment

• cooking brush, serrated knife, rimmed baking sheet, parchment paper

Ingredients

  

• 1 loaf (best) or round Angel Food Cake store purchased works well
• 6 Tbsp Real Butter, melted
• 1 can Blue berry or strawberry pie filling I like to use one of each pie filling.

Fresh Toppings – Alternative

• 1 pint Fresh Strawberries washed, stems removed, cut into slices
• 1 pint Fresh blueberries washed

Instructions

 

• Lift your oven's top rack to its highest position and turn the broiler on high.
• Line your rimmed baking dish with parchment paper and set asside.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan or in a microwave-safe bowl.
• If you purchased a loaf of angel food cake, using a serrated knife slice it into thick slices, approximately 2 inches thick. If your angel food cake is round you will make your slices the same thickness and make your cuts straight across the entire cake. Most often, we slice round angel food cake into wedges, but that will not work because they will not brown evenly under the broiler. Tip: Rinse and dry your knife between slices.
• This is an optional step: Cut slices with a round cookie cutter.
• Place cake slices onto your parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Using a baking brush, brush butter onto first one side of cake slices and then turn and brush the other side of cake with butter.
• Place baking sheet under the broiler until cake slices are golden-brown.

  Note: You'll need to watch closely and rotate the tray to obtain even results.
• Remove tray from the oven, carefully turn cake slices, and return to the broiler until golden-brown.

  Note: Watch your cake because it will burn quickly.
• Arrange toasted slices onto individual serving plates. Spoon fruit pie filling onto each slice (or fresh fruit) and top with maple-cinnamon whipped cream. Serve and enjoy!!

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