I love salty foods, but I often have a sweet tooth. Some of my favorite comfort foods are sweet.

As a child, my mother made our birthday cakes...we rarely ever had store bought cakes - mom would painstakingly bake our cakes (my favorite is chocolate) and iced & decorated them with homemade buttercream icing. Let me tell you that this is something that remains a #1 comfort food for me - and will be something I plan to continue with Little I. I'll be honest when I say that am not a good cake decorator - but as long as I am able, I will bake/ice him a homemade cake every year. In part because I have such great birthday memories, and part of those memories include our yummy cakes.

Mmmmm....Chocolate cake with homemade butter cream icing. My mouth is watering, just thinking about it.

But tied for first place is my Mamaw's angelfood cake. Every year for my birthday (and sometimes more often than that), SHE made me an angelfood cake. Sometimes she would bring it to me (or invite me over) to eat it -- either plain, or with strawberries that have been cut up & set in sugar for a day or two. Add a dollop of whipped cream, and I'd be set.

Oh, the childhood memories...

So a few years ago, I decided I was going to learn to make this delicious thing known as angelfood cake. Everything I had read said it had to be done 'just right' or the cake wouldn't turn out well. At the time, I had only a handheld mixer, but I found a recipe and made it. I separated my own egg whites and everything. Didn't do too bad for my first try!

I called Mamaw and asked her opinion on how I should do things better the next time.......

Her reply was something to the effect of, "Well, honey, I'd tell you, but do you know how long it has been since I have made an angelfood cake from scratch? I say just go buy the boxed mix & make it that way...it's what I do!"

Imagine the beautiful music playing in the background of this phone conversation...and when she said that, the record goes sccrrrraaatch.

This ranks right up there when, one Thanksgiving, several of the family were asking Mamaw for her creamstyle corn recipe...she proceeded to tell us all that she goes to the grocery store, buys a frozen roll of creamstyle corn, adds a tiny bit of flour, sugar & butter and microwaves it.

Oh boy, let me tell you, that totally rocked our world!

And you know why? Because she made it taste just like old times!!! (just for the record, I know for a fact she used to cut the corn off the cobb and make creamstyle corn from scratch)

So - yeah, I'm too lazy to cut corn off of the cobb to make homemade creamstyle corn...so I'll continue microwave the frozen roll of it & add flour, sugar & butter to it, to make it more "homestyle"............but I will not take the short cut with my angelfood cake!

Part of the reason for this is because my precious siblings all went in together - a few years ago - and bought me a KitchenAid stand mixer. Other than my iPod, that mixer is one of the best gifts I've ever received.

So if I'm gonna bake an angelfood cake, I truly have no excuse for not baking one from scratch.

However, you don't have to have a stand mixer. You CAN use a handheld mixer...I have done it. AND you can crack open your own eggs and separate the yolks from the whites...I've done that, too. This weekend, though, I had a carton of egg whites about to expire...so I figured I could put them to good use and make an angelfood cake or two! So that's what got me started on this go-around of angelfood cakes.

So - I guess the wait has really started to get to my brain. And here's why: I had the great idea to actually take pictures of the process to show you all how to make an angelfood cake from scratch! I thought about posting pics w/ descriptions, but why do that, when I can hone my videomaking skills!...right??

This video is only the second I've ever made...and it also ranks up there with America's Most Boring Videos...so you don't have to watch it. BUT - if you wanna learn how to make the perfect angelfood cake...

I'm your girl. And this is your video.

And I imagine that by the end, you all will agree wholeheartedly with me...I am going off my rocker. We'd better get "the call" really soon! Or I'm going to tackle that creamstyle corn...and show you all about it!