Delightful Angel Food Cake

1 cup cake flour, unsifted

2 tablespoons cocoa powder

1 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, divided

1 tablespoon red sanding sugar (see note)

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

10 large eggs or 8 extra large eggs at room temperature

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Set aside a two-piece, 10-inch tube pan, ungreased. Do not grease, spray or coat pan with flour.

In small bowl, sift or run through sieve cake flour, cocoa powder, 1 tablespoon sugar, red sanding sugar and baking powder. Set aside.

Separate whites from yolks, carefully keeping yolks from breaking. Reserve yolks for another recipe or freeze. Pour whites into a large, grease-free glass or stainless steel bowl and beat whites with mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add cream of tartar and beat 1 minute until soft peaks form.

Slowly add stream of sugar while continuing to beat whites on medium high speed until stiff peaks form, about 2 to 3 minutes. Using hand scraper, carefully transfer meringue to larger bowl.

Sprinkle one-third of the dry ingredients over the meringue. Gently fold into meringue using a small hand scraper. Repeat twice with remaining dry ingredients. Carefully scrape bottom of bowl to ensure all flour has been incorporated. Do not stir or cut through the batter.

Carefully spoon into ungreased tube pan. With back of spoon, smooth top of batter. Bake 35-40 minutes until cake top springs back when touched. Immediately invert pan on baking sheet. Cool cake upside down for 1 hour.

To unmold, run thin knife or spatula around sides and along inside tube. Pull inside pan piece up to remove outer piece. Run thin knife along bottom to loosen. Place plate on top of tube piece centered and quickly invert to release. Store at room temperature, lightly covered.

Serves 12.

Baker's hint: Red sprinkles or sanding sugar bake into color bursts. For a confetti look, use rainbow colored sprinkles.

@Recipe nutrition:Nutrition values per serving: 122 calories, trace amount fat (trace amount saturated), 27 g carbohydrates, trace amount fiber, 4 g protein, 0 cholesterol, 67 mg sodium.