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Cooking & Baking

SamuelAdams

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2. You can make your own cake flour substitute.

Reply to spinbaby (Original post)

Mon Apr 13, 2026, 08:51 AM

8 hrs ago

From 1 cup of all purpose flour, replace 2 tablespoons with corn starch. Sift the mixture a couple times and it is similar in texture and protein content to real cake flour.

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Bakers, let me ask about flour [View all] spinbaby 10 hrs ago OP

The cake flour would make the texture more tender and lighter, but you can get a good result without it Easterncedar 10 hrs ago #1

You can make your own cake flour substitute. SamuelAdams 8 hrs ago #2

I didn't know that spinbaby 7 hrs ago #3