What is Cake Flour? Uses and Things to Know

Cake flour is one of the extremely popular ingredients in baking. And in the "thousand and one" world of flour, cake flour can be said to be the "sweetest girl" because it is the raw material for making delicious and attractive pastries. Are you also looking for knowledge about cake flour? Do not skip this article!

Don't wonder why Taky called cake flour "sweet girl"! Just need to learn a little bit about this powder will understand immediately. Remember when he first made cakes, Taky had to "taste the bitter fruit" many times without understanding why. Later I found out, when I took a cupcake, I brought bread flour to work, then misunderstood that all-purpose flour could be used by any bread. So a lot of times I have to "handle" all the bread myself because I don't dare to invite anyone. This is probably also the general situation of many of you when you first started making hen cake! That is why Taky has many articles about powders, the main purpose is for you to easily refer and distinguish to use them more accurately. In this article, we will discover about cake flour - a popular flour and you will use a lot in the process of making cakes!

Cake flour - a familiar and popular baking material

What is Cake flour?

Cake flour is one of the most commonly used wheat flour today, cake flour is made from soft-ground wheat grains, contains extremely high starch content and low protein content (only about 6-8% ). That's why cake flour is also known as low protein flour or low gluten flour.
If seen with the naked eye, cake flour is always in powder form and looks extremely smooth and fine, with tiny particles. When used, people often bleach the powder to help the protein molecules contained in the dough become stronger and help the powder absorb more liquid and sugar. This helps to make the dough characteristics suitable for making soft, fluffy structured cakes.

What kind of cake do "cake flour" make?

As mentioned above, cake flour is extremely suitable for making cakes with soft, light, fluffy structure, moisture and sugar content high in the formula. Best of all, the cake will be very delicious when making white cakes (Coconut Angel Food Cake is an example) and cookies.
Some cakes that you absolutely must make with cake flour bring the perfect finished product, such as cupcake, Angel Food Cake, Janese Cotton Cheesecake, Taiwan sponge cake, roll cake, ...

Tokyo Cheesecake – complete products from cake flour

Replace cake flour with any flour?

Cake flour is an extremely low protein content and is commonly used in cakes with soft, moist texture and light cotton. But what if one day you want to make a cake like that but the house is out of cake flour and you don't have enough time to run out to buy? Don't worry, you can completely replace cake flour with another flour!

In some necessary cases, you can replace it with the following formula: 1 cup cake flour = ¾ cup all-purpose flour + 3 tsp cornstarch (cornstarch). The cornstarch will help to reduce the protein content of our total flour very much and help this flour mixture have properties and uses similar to cake flour.