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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@ Suiki, all purpose flour is just plain flour. All supermarkets stock it.
This will be my 1st time making the cake flour recipe. I have read in some recipes they add baking powder into the cake flour recipe, too. I’m curious to know what are the benefits of adding baking powder?
I am so happy that I stumbled across this post. I live in a small town and our small grocery store does not carry cake flour. the recipe I’m testing today calls for cake flour and I’m feeling too lazy to drive to larger grocery store. Thanks!!
You are a lifesaver! great instruction! thank you so much.
VERY helpful tnx!!
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