Make cake flour out of regular flour. Cakes that are light and fluffy are so much better. You want that mouth watering deliciousness right now. Yet all your cakes end up flat and hard, worthy of a Frisbee contest. Could be the flour you're using more than a lack of baking skill. If you're like most people you don't think about buying cake flour, so all you have in the pantry is that heavy enriched flour.
Instructions
1. Get out the flour that you have. Most likely it is the regular enriched kind, but whatever you have on hand will work.
2. Sift flour. This requires a flour sifter. Remember those tin can shaped things with a tiny wire screen that your grandma used to have? That is a sifter. If you don't have one of these, you can use a vegetable/spaghetti noodle strainer or even a small tea strainer. Anything with those small holes.
3. Measure how much flour you'll need. For every 1 cup of flour you use, take out 2 tablespoons of the flour. Set the 2 tablespoons aside or put them back in the flour bin.
4. Replace the two tablespoons of flour that you took out with two tablespoons of cornstarch.
5. Sift the cornstarch and flour at least five times. This will take a lot of time if you are using the tea strainer, but do it anyway. The cornstarch needs to get mixed in really well. The better you can sift it together, the more light and fluffy the cake flour will be, perfect for making that marvelous melt in your mouth cake.
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