Recipe asks for Cake Flour?

AlwaysHappy

Evening- I am just about to bake a cake and flummoxed as the recipe asks for cake flour - I have plain, SR and Sponge flour, bicarb, baking soda and cornflour. Can I use any of these as a substitute or in conjunction with each other? Many thanks.

notanewuser

Cake flour is the american term for self raising flour.

purpledonkey

As above, just drop the baking powder/bicarb if it's in the recipe (as self raising has it already)

ash28

notanewuser wrote: »

Cake flour is the american term for self raising flour.

Cake flour isn't the American term for self raising flour......cake flour has no raising agent....it's a much finer, lower protein version of all purpose flour (plain flour). Self rising (raising) flour is available in the US.

I think Mcdougalls do a sponge flour...it's self raising and Sainsburys do an own brand sponge flour as do Waitrose. They are self raising flours too, so no need for baking powder.

Cake flour is supposed to give a lighter, less dense cake.

You can make cake flour by adding corn flour to your plain flour and then add baking powder. If you added corn flour to self raising flour it might affect the rising of the cake.

http://joythebaker.com/2009/09/how-to-make-cake-flour/

Would I bother? Probably not and the sponge flours are over £1 a kilo

CupOfChai

Make cake flour? Nah, faff.

I've used SR flour where it says cake flour and it works just peachy.