This Homemade Cake Flour recipe needs only two ingredients! You must add to your arsenal of baking necessities. You will get the same result as store bought, and you can make it just as you need it. All you need is some all purpose flour and corn flour, that's it!

Great question! Cake Flour is a specialty flour that is lower in protein, very finely ground and bleached by chlorination. The flour produces cakes and other baked goods with a finer, softer texture than all-purpose flour. It's most commonly seen in American recipes.

Because cake flour and the egg yolks permit the batter to hold more liquid, more sugar can be used in the batter. To create a moist, sweet, and level cake.

Also because it contains less gluten, it produces a very soft, fluffy crumb. You know when you buy a cake at the store and it's incredibly soft and you wonder why? One of the reasons is that the baker used cake flour.

You probably guessed it, but you use it in cup(cakes), and much more.

If you want to use cake flour instead of regular all purpose flour in a cake you use 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons of all - purpose flour sifted with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch for each cup of cake flour called for in a recipe.

Sifting them together is the key. Use this mixture whenever a recipe calls for cake flour.

For Example:

2 Cups All Purpose Flour, sifted - 4 Tablespoons Cornstarch = 2 Cups Cake Flour.

If you only have cake flour and the recipe calls for all-purpose, use 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons of cake flour sifted each cup of all-purpose flour.

For Example:

2 Cup Cake Flour, sifted + 4 Tablespoons Cake Flour, sifted = 2 Cups All Purpose Flour.

Does the Cake Flour have baking powder in it?

No it doesn't. Cake flour doesn't contain any raising agents. So when using it, you will need to use baking baking powder or baking soda into your cup(cake). When making your own homemade cake flour just note that cornstarch is not a raising agent. It's what is used to soften your flour and cake.

Can All Purpose Flour be used instead of Cake Flour?

Yes! You absolutely can. There is no down side to making this substitute. The only difference might not be as soft and tender but it will still be really good.

Where can Cake Flour be found?

You can find cake flour in the baking aisle next to the all-purpose flour.

Hope this helps! Please let us know if you have any questions.

~Hannah and Hailey :)