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Angel food cake is notoriously finicky—it’s not always easy to achieve its iconic cloud-like texture, especially when you’re working with multiple ingredients, several steps, and not a lot of time.
But with just a box of cake mix and a 20-ounce can of crushed pineapple, you can have a beautiful Bundt of angel food cake ready to impress. While many boxed recipes for angel food cake call for adding tap water to build the batter, there’s no reason why you can’t kick things up a notch and use fresh pineapple juice—and little bits of crushed pineapple to keep things interesting! The tropical fruit lends more of a subtle essence than a strong flavor, and the result is somehow moist and tender yet still featherlight, like a heavenly cloud of cake.
How to Make 2-Ingredient Angel Food Cake
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Don’t let anyone tell you that two-ingredient cakes cannot be done. The recipe for two-ingredient angel food cake couldn’t be more simple. Plus, it’s so easy to remember that you barely need to write down the recipe.
It starts with boxed angel food cake mix. It’s important to reach for a boxed cake mix that specifies “angel food cake” for that quintessential sugary-sweet flavor. While you could, if you wanted, use another flavor or variety, this mix is specially formulated with just the right amount of powdered egg whites to emulate the light, airy, spongey-yet-moist crumb of angel food.
The trick is using canned crushed pineapple, which provides just the right amount of liquid that you need to achieve the right cake batter texture. But more importantly, it contains enzymes that naturally break down proteins present in flour for an extra-tender crumb. The citric acid present in canned pineapple also assists the cake in stabilizing. Most cake mixes contain this citric acid as well, but canned pineapple adds a little extra stability, ensuring a beautifully even crumb.
Serve it with fresh fruit, like strawberries, a dollop of whipped cream—or drizzle it with a rich, sweet syrup!
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What the Allrecipes Community Has to Say
- "Yes, it is easy and delicious,” says Allrecipes member Suzan Reiner. "It can also be made with different boxed cake mixes which are frequently on sale and less costly than angel food cake mix. Makes for a denser cake but still yummy!"
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- “Whoa, just doesn’t get much easier than this,” says Allrecipes Allstar lutzflcat. “Took out of the oven at 40 minutes, inverted it onto a bottle, and as instructed, let it cool for two hours. Ran a table knife around the center and edges, turned upside down onto a plate, and it just popped right out, no sticking at all. I could see this with a quick-and-easy blueberry sauce, and as another reviewer mentioned, adding some coconut to the batter just might be another great option. And most importantly, it’s delicious on its own!”
- “I have made this at least 50 times and it’s fail proof,” says fillus. “”So moist and delicious. I live slicing fresh strawberries and putting them on top with fresh whip cream.
Get the recipe: 2-Ingredient Pineapple Angel Food Cake
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