How To Make Cake Flour
Written by joythebaker on September 20, 2009 – 12:28 pm -
Cake flour. Let’s face facts: I never have cake flour on hand when I need it. Luckily, there’s a super easy way to turn good old all-purpose flour into cake flour, lightening your cake crumb, making it super soft and delicious. Maybe you already know this trick. It’s a good one.
Here’s a step by step. From me to you!
How to Turn All-Purpose Flour into Cake Flour
Step One: Measure out the all-purpose flour that you’ll need for your recipe.
Step Two: For every cup of flour you use, take out two tablespoons of flour and return it to the flour bin. Throw the cup of flour (minus the two tablespoons) into a sifter set over a bowl.
Step Three: Replace the two tablespoons of flour that your removed with two tablespoons of cornstarch.
Step Four: Sift the flour and cornstarch together. Sift it again, and again and again. The cornstarch and flour need to be well incorporated and the flour aerated. Sift the flour and cornstarch mixture about five times. Look at that! You just made cake flour!
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hi
i come from South Africa where cake flour is easily available and baking was truly a pleasure. i now live in the netherlands where cake flour seems to be non-existent so i was very relieved to find your substitution.
i bake a lot (have 2 growing boys!!) and i was wondering if it was possible to make a large amount of substitute cake flour and store it for future use. thank you. maimi
I would think this would be fine to store, and then just sift again before using.
Brilliant, just the other day I ran out of cake flour, and I was like, darn, I need to use cake flour to make this recipe…I actually called up the supermarket whether they are still open at 9.58pm! yes so late at night. In the end, I had to make do with what I’ve got left and cut down the other ingredients too. Still turned our fine
I was glad to find this. I promised my grandson I would help him to make a cake for school. It needs cake flour whick I do not keep in the house. So now we can make his cake and I do not have to go to the store. My grandson thinks I the smartest grandma to no this but I did have to tell him I found it on the internet. Thank you