How to Make Your Own Cake Flour

Cake flour is something most of us don't keep around because - well - we use boxed mixes! Besides cake flour is pretty expensive. Did you know it's actually pretty easy to make a substitute that works really well? Here is the recipe - quick and easy!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 3/4 cups Flour
• 1/4 cup Cornstarch

1. Mix the flour and cornstarch together, using light whisking movements with a fork or whisk. That's all you really need to do.

2. You could simply substitute all purpose flour for cake flour by taking two tablespoons of regular flour from each cup of all purpose flour. The reason for adding cornstarch instead of just using less flour is to lower the gluten content in the flour to make it lighter and to reduce the chance of your baked goods becoming tough.

3. Flour that is produced as cake flour is actually bleached to make it white and to break down the protein that produces gluten in the flour. It's also higher in starch, so adding the cornstarch is exactly what all-purpose flour needs to work as cake flour. The finer texture of cake flour is produced by longer milling so you can run the flour/cornstarch mixture in a food processor if you want that finer texture.

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