Tuesday, July 5, 2011

How to make Cake flour

Type 'Cake flour' on Google and you'll get so many links on how to make it with just 2 ingredients in your pantry.Or if you are lucky enough to spot it in your supermarket,nothing like it.Then why am I posting a well-known how-to on my blog.Well,I am making a cake which requires Cake flour and I don't get to buy it off the shelves here and have to make it on my own.Might as well tell you people how I went about it!


As I said,you just need two ingredients.All purpose flour and cornflour.


IMG_5391


Measure out 1 cup of all purpose flour.


IMG_5395


Remove 2 tbsp from the measured flour and 


IMG_5396
add 2 tbsp cornflour*.



IMG_5400


Sift together for 3-4 times so that both the flours are mixed well.There,you have your cake flour.Now go bake the cake and eat it too!!


*I ran out of cornflour,so substituted it with Vanilla flavored Custard powder.Did that make any difference to the final product,ie the cake I baked?Stay tuned and I'll let you know;)



19 comments:

  1. Love the texture cake flour gives...nice post...

    ReplyDelete
  2. Good one Divya.. Thanks for the tip..!
    Looking forward to your yummy recipe..

    Anu Ragesh

    ReplyDelete
  3. Oooo..suspense and all eh? Maybe you should start writing your very own food mystery series.. ;-) I was wondering why your corn flour was so yellow..!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Divya you are a GURU!! really... amazing!! .. I love the way you have simplified it for a Rookie like me..,

    I am trying this today itself :D :D ...

    I love it..!!! ;)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Divya...Thanks for sharing this info... :)

    ReplyDelete
  6. Wow this is such a useful post...thanks for sharing!

    ReplyDelete
  7. I made cakes using flour n corn flour..it always gives nice texture to d cake...waiting to see wat u made wid dis mix..:)

    ReplyDelete
  8. This is a great post, Divya. I assume using custard powder didn't make any difference, other than adding a flavor and slight color.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Am curious about ur pound cake, how interesting u replace the corn flour with vanilla flavoured custard powder, useful post for many of us..

    ReplyDelete
  10. So how was the end result??? Such a beautiful tip thanks for sharing.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Wow this is such a useful post...thanks for sharing!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Thank God for all the substitutions! Can't imagine waiting for someone to get cake flour from the US along with cake pans etc:-))

    Curious to know what you baked with this 'custard' cake flour..

    ReplyDelete
  13. thats really nice to know to make a cake flour with just 2 ingredients :)
    Waiting to know how the cake turned with custard powder

    ReplyDelete
  14. thank you so much for the tip divya..

    ReplyDelete
  15. Hey thanks divya...I was looking for cake flour description...and you post seemed to be a Wikipedia to me :)

    ReplyDelete
  16. Thanks a lot for your informations

    ReplyDelete
  17. Thank you for sharing all of this wonderful information.

    ReplyDelete

A blog is not complete without the readers feedback.Please let me know how you liked my post.Thank you so much for visiting my blog.

Love,
Divya.