Our Reluctant Secret

We’re finally willing to admit it. We are addicted to angel food cake … and we take it straight. We don’t need no stinking strawberries and whipped cream or mystery fluffy filling or frosting. Just give us a big glass of milk and a spongy ring of nirvana.

We’re not talking about the pale, puny stuff you buy at the grocery store or make from a box at home. We mean angel food cake made by someone who really knows how to do it right. We have found such a place. No, not a place, THE place.

We’ve had to think long and hard about this. In Bountiful Cupboard Magazine We had no reservations about telling you where to find great beer, wine, bison, cheese, berries, picnic supplies, mustards, Scottish Highland beef, and heritage turkeys. We’ve told you where to go to get the best and what to buy when you get there. We’ve told you where to go for food events and festivals.

This is different. In telling you, we run the risk of upsetting the logistics of angel food cake supply and demand. But we are dedicated to telling you where to get the best food so, as reluctant as we are to tell you, here goes. The best angel food cake on the planet comes is from Fosdal Home Bakery in Stoughton, WI.

Since 1949, Fosdal Home Bakery has been a prime source for Norwegian baked goods like berlinerkanser, sandbakkel, fattigman, rosettes, krumkake (all types of cookies for those who don’t live in a Norwegian town), lefse, and kransakaka (Norwegian wedding cake). They also make a mean and tasty kringle.

That would be enough to bring most bakeries to the attention of the Bountiful Cupboard crew but as you have probably guessed already, what makes Fosdal Home Bakery immortal is angel food cake. The first thing you notice when you take bite is how incredibly moist it is, as well as its body. This is a cake with substance. Next is a light yet distinctive flavor of vanilla. Toppings are unnecessary; Fosdal angel food cake is a dessert unto itself. Any additions would lessen it.

Angel food is one of the more basic cakes with only a few ingredients but in the hands of a master they transcend their humble beginnings. Fosdal Home Bakery at 243 E Main Street in Stoughton, WI has this remade humble cake into an art form. There, we told you. Just be sure you leave a cake on the shelf for us.