Ingredients :

  • 2-1/2 cups cake flour, sifted
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 3 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 cup oil (vegetable oil or corn oil)
  • 7 egg yolks, at room temperature
  • 3/4 cup cold water
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 7 egg whites, at room temperature
  • 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
  • 3/4 cup sugar

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Cooking Procedures :

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.  Prepare 10-inch ungreased tube pan.
  2. Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
  3. Make a well at the center and add oil, egg yolks, water and vanilla.  Beat until smooth and no lumps occur.  Set aside.
  4. Using a stand mixer or electric hand mixer, beat egg whites until frothy.  Add the cream of tartar.  Continue to beat on high until soft peaks begin to form.  Add sugar very gradually and continuously beating until meringue is glossy and stiff.
  5. Gently fold the egg yolk mixture into the meringue until well blended, ensuring that you scrap the bottom of the bowl as you fold.
  6. Pour into prepared ungreased tube pan.
  7. Bake until golden and middle springs back when touched for about 45 minutes.
  8. Invert onto the neck of a bottle.
  9. Cool completely upside down.

VARIATIONS:
Orange Chiffon Cake
Use 3/4 cup orange juice instead of cold water and add 1/2 tsp. orange rind.  Omit vanilla.

Pineapple Chiffon Cake
Same as for orange chiffon except that you use pineapple juice in place of the orange juice and omit orange rind.

Mocha Chiffon Cake
Instead of 3/4 cup cold water.  Use 1/4 cup of hot water and dissolve 1 tbsp. coffee and add 1/2 cup cold water.

Coconut Chiffon Cake
Follow exactly the standard recipe except that you add 1 cup desiccated coconut and fold in last to the mixture before transferring to the prepared tube pan.

Banana Chiffon Cake
Follow exactly the standard recipe except that you add 2 pcs. mashed ripe bananas and fold in last to the mixture before transferring to the prepared tube pan.

Chocolate Chips Chiffon Cake
Follow exactly the standard recipe except that you add 1 cup chocolate chips or 3 oz grated semisweet chocolate or bittersweet chocolate and fold in last to the mixture before transferring to the prepared tube pan.

Chocolate Chiffon Cake
Instead of 2-1/2 cups cake flour. Reduce the flour to 2 cups.  Add 1/2 cup cocoa powder and 4 tbsp. more of sugar.  Dissolve cocoa with 3/4 cup hot water instead of 3/4 cup cold water.

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