If a recipe calls for cake flour, is that the same thing as all purpose flour?

What's the difference between all-purpose flour and cake flour?





Quite often, cake recipes call for cake flour, which is fine-textured and makes tender cakes and pastries.





For 1 cup of cake flour, you can substitute with 1 cup minus two tablespoons of all-purpose flour, which you should sift 3 or 4 times.





And what should you use instead for 1 cup of self-rising flour?





Just sift together 1 cup of all-purpose flour plus 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda





hope this helps. good luck.If a recipe calls for cake flour, is that the same thing as all purpose flour?
No it is not. Cake flour is denser.If a recipe calls for cake flour, is that the same thing as all purpose flour?
no cake flour is actually called cake flour. It makes cakes really really good, my mom used it one time for a cake. I have only seen it around christmas but I think you can get it is the baking isle--not sure if it is near the regular flour or not??
No it's not. Check out the following for possible substitutions!





http://homecooking.about.com/gi/dynamic/…





I found a substitution





1 cup cake flour = 7/8 cup all purpose flour. Check the link.
Not quite. It has more starch.
No, cake flour and all purpose flour are not the same thing.


You can use either kind of flour in cakes, it is just that you use less all purpose flour then cake flour.


Cake flour tends to be lighter then all purpose.





If the recipe call for 1 cup cake flour, you can use all purpose flour, 1 cup less 1 tablespoon.





Also, cake flour is more bleached then all purpose, so cake flour makes a white cake that will look whiter then one made with all purpose.
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You've read the rest—now for the best. This works!


If you have a sifter, sift the all purpose flour a few


times, measure out 7/8 cup instead of one cup flour.


Replace that 1/8 cup of flour with cornstarch, which


is superfine. The resulting mixture will act like cake


flour. \0/


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I’m sorry to tell you, all purpose flour and cake flour are very different.


All purpose flour is used for both bread and cakes.





Cake flour is used strictly for cakes and pastry.





The difference is the gluten [pronounced “glue- tin”]. The higher the gluten content, the more of a bread-like taste that flour will have on the baked product.





There’s A LOT more of an answer, but for the answer to your Q, this is as simple as I can make it.





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No, it contains smaller particles and is different from AP flour. It tends to make cakes more tender because it contains additives other than flour.
cake flour has its own ingredients the other has its own