How to Make Homemade Cake Flour
Learn to make homemade cake flour. It’s very easy and cheaper than buying it at stores. You only need 2 ingredients: all purpose flour and cornstarch!
What is Cake Flour?
It’s a low protein flour that’s typically used in baking and especially cakes to give it that wonderfully firm but soft texture. This is typically the flour that is used in fancy bakeries.
Cake Flour is Better Homemade!
My Aunt (who is a fabulous baker, by the way!) taught me how to make DIY cake flour with all-purpose flour at home because it’s a little expensive to buy at stores.
As an experiment, I made my favorite vanilla cupcakes with store-bought and homemade cake flour and they BOTH looked the same and tasted the SAME!
Only 2 Cake Flour Ingredients!
- All purpose-flour
- Cornstarch
The key is SIFTING! You need to sift these 2 ingredients multiple times because it allows the cornstarch and flour to mix together thoroughly.
Cake Flour vs All-Purpose Flour
The main difference is the protein content. Cake flour has a lower protein content than all-purpose flour and that results in a light, airy and fluffy cake texture.
Other Baking/Cake Decorating Tips
Well, that’s all for today.
Homemade Cake Flour Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup All-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp Cornstarch
Instructions
- Measure out 1 cup of all purpose flour.
- Remove 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour from your cup and dump it back into your flour bag.
- Now, add 2 tablespoons of cornstarch into your cup of all purpose flour.
- Sift once.
- Sift twice.
- Sift thrice.
- Sift again.
- And sift one last time!
Recipe Notes
- DON'T skip the sifting!
- Store this in a sealed container away from humidity at room temperature.
- Recipe can easily be doubled or tripled.
Until next time, tata my lovelies.
I only use all purpose self-rising flour and just sift the flour very well and my cakes turn out great. By the way, I don’t even use salt in my cake recipes because there is salt in flour and people love my cakes. They tell me that they are very moist. I also use unsalted butter called sweet dream. I have three people looking forward to me making their cakes for Thanksgiving.
Can this be easily converted to a gluten free cake flour? I have a granddaughter with celiac disease and I am trying to learn to cook everything gluten free.
A few of my readers have tried it and said it worked just fine because cornstarch is gluten free. I have personally never tried it though…