Some cake recipes call for cake flour instead of all purpose flour or maida, which is what we are all used to. So what is cake flour?
I have realised over the past few months that all these fancy-shmancy things they sell in specialty stores are very easy to make on our own (yes, I we can also make cinnamon sugar at home, trust me). Also, if you buy one pack of cake flour, you are left with the leftover and then need to go looking for more recipes that require cake flour.
Anyway, here's you can make your own cake flour:
Measure out 1 cup of maida or all purpose flour
Remove 2 tablespoon of flour from it
Add 2 tablespoon of cornflour / cornstarch instead
Sift well (atleast 4 times)
Store in a container or use immediately for your cake recipe!
How easy was that?
Nags
Anon, that's to keep the measurement consistent. If you want to end up with 1 cup of cake flour, then you need to remove the amount of extra stuff you are adding so that the final quantity is 1 cup (or whatever you begin with).
Anonymous
Thanks for sharing this tip.. btw why do we need to remove 2 tbsp of flour from 1 cup of flour/maida.. any specific reason???
Suhaina
oh this is so easy. will soon try some recipe with this cake flour. thanks for sharing Nags.
Srimathi
Is cake flour really addition of corn flour to APF. Do you know that a small box of cake flour costs 2 times that of a big bag of APF here.I am keeping this in my important recipe collection. Thanks for sharing.
Soma
huh!! didn't know that high priced bag could be done so easily. Thanks a bunch for this.
Rupa
hey,
Nice one...can you share how to make cinnamom sugar too.....I love it.
Rajani
wow this is great!!
PriyaVaasu
Wow!!! thats so Easy!!!! Thanks for sharing it!!!
Premalatha Aravindhan
very interesting,i used to buy that in shop.Thanks for posting...
Mriganayani
Now I'm waiting to see the Tiramisu that was born out of this.