Sunday, August 23, 2009
make your own cake flour
Does your grocery store have the nerve to inconsistently stock cake flour? Does it drive you crazy to see recipe after recipe that calls for it, and wonder what else you can use? Good news: Cake flour is really easy to make at home. Add two tablespoons of corn starch to each cup of regular flour and sift this mixture together twice. Measure your cups of flour from this mixture.
This is brilliant! Thanks so much. I never buy cake flour because I so rarely make cakes that need it, but I’m sure the cakes I have made with all-purpose have suffered as a result. Thanks!
exactly what I needed, thanks so so much!
I’m so glad you shared this! The last time I bought cake flour it was expensive and went stale before I used it all. I always have corn starch in the house so this is perfect!
When adding the cornstarch, does adding the cornstarch make a cup or do you add 2 TBS cornstarch to 1 whole cup of flour? Thanks
Is it okay to just use plain pastry flour or should I add the cornstarch also?