Cake flour is used in many cake and baked goodies recipes. Using this flour instead of regular all purpose flour results in soft fluffy cakes. It may be readily available in super markets. But making this at home is way more easier and quicker than you think. Plus it is cheaper..
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The above picture is a yogurt muffin which i baked using this cake flour..you can see the texture, it is soft and pillowy..Will share that recpe soon..Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
Preparation Time : 5 mins
Makes : 1 cup of cake flour
Ingredients :
All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup
Corn Flour - 2 tblspn
Method:
Measure 1 cup flour in a bowl or sifter. Remove 2 tblspn of the flour from the measured one.
Now replace that with 2 tblspn of cornflour.
Mix well or sieve it.
Use as needed.
Pictorial:
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| Take your ingredients |
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| Measure 1 cup of all purpose flour |
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| take it in a bowl |
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| now remove 2 tblspn from this |
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| this is one tblspn |
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| and two tblspn |
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| Now take cornflour..same two tblspn |
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| add it in..this is one tblspn |
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| and two tblspn |
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| now this is the mix |
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| mix well |
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| you can sieve this well.. |
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| Use as needed |
Anonymous
Wow. Really! Never knew this. Thank you. Will surely try this next time.
Meera
Hey aarthi... so with this corn flour mixture...u dnt hav to use baking powder n baking soda????
Anonymous
I will definitely try this
Aarthi
@Meerano this is cake flour. it is used in some cakes and cupcakes. But you have to add baking soda and baking powder as per the recipe. You can use this flour instead of all purpose flour. It gives you soft fluffy cakes
Anonymous
Hi, can this cake flour be used for red velvet cake too? if yes, how?
Aarthi
@Anonymoussub normal flour for cake flour
Anonymous
Very nice aarthi for all cake and bun recipes can we replace this flour instead of maida
Aarthi
@Anonymousyes u can use
Anonymous
Can u tell as per grams as im unable to judge cup measurement.
Anonymous
Can u tell the measurements gram wise.
Aarthi
@Anonymousmy 1 cup of flour measure 120 grams. And my 1 cup measures 240 ml
Shivani Sharma
verry good article nice
Megha
Mam ... really a great job...ur cooking teaching techniques is great. Hats off