Recipe: Airy Angel Food Cupcakes with Naturally Pink Icing

         

• We've given you an array of sweet treats for Valentine's Day. There has been rich, creamy crème brûlée, inventive chocolates, and a whipped parfait of blood orange curd. Here's one last treat: Airy, barely-there angel food cakelets that practically melt in your mouth, topped with a puff of meringue icing colored pink without a single drop of food dye.

     

• I had high hopes of bringing you a full-on all-natural red velvet cupcake for Valentine's this year. I experimented all weekend with beet powder, a magenta fairy dust of all-natural color. But my efforts turned out too, well, beety. And not in a nice way; there was an unpleasant earthiness with a bitter aftertaste in all of my baking experiments.
• So I turned back to one of my original ideas: Angel food cupcakes. I did try dying these with beet powder, but again — beety taste. No go. But alone, angel food cake is a true simple pleasure. If you have only had those styrofoam approximations of angel food cake from the grocery, dry and gritty in the mouth, then try again with a homemade recipe. You don't even need a tube pan; these bake up in cupcake form.

            
Airy Angel Food Cupcakes

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