Community Pick
Cake Flour Substitute
photo by gailanng
- Ready In:
- 2mins
- Ingredients:
- 2
- Yields:
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2 cups
ingredients
- 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 cup cornstarch
directions
- To make two cups of cake-and-pastry flour (cake flour), combine 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour with 1/4 cup cornstarch; proceed with your recipe.
- The easiest way to do this substitution is to put 2 tbsp of cornstarch in the bottom of a 1-cup measuring cup, then fill the cup as usual with all-purpose flour and level top. Repeat process to get your two cups.
- If you only need 1/2 cup of cake flour, put 1 tbsp cornstarch in bottom of 1/2 cup measuring cup, then fill and level as above.
Reviews
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This worked ok for me. Honestly we felt we could slightly taste the cornstarch in the cake I made with it, which wasn't the best. The cake rose beautifully though! Unfortunately, the cake was also kind of dry and just not great but I can't attribute that to the cake flour necessarily since I had never made that cake recipe before either. In a pinch, I would use this recipe again to see if I had better luck since I don't have cake flour around the house on a regular basis.
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I've never used a recipe before that called for cake flour so I was very thankful for this substitution when I decided to make a batch of brownies with cake flour as an ingredient. I don't have anything to compare this recipe to consequently but I think it did the trick just fine. I won't ever buy cake flour now that I know this substitution is here and it is an item I rarely use.
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