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kb9oyo
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 Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:47 pm Post subject: Substitute for Cake Flour? |
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I want to convert a "normal" recipe to GF and it calls for cake flour. Which flour or which combination of flours would make the best substitute? I watched "Good Eats!" recently and saw the Tres Leche Cake and wanted to try it. It calls for 6 3/4 ounces of cake flour which didn't seem like much compared to the rest of the ingredients, so I thought that it might be do-able. Does anybody have any good suggestions?
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ostrich
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I thought cake flour was just regular flour with a finer texture?
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Cake flour is made of softer wheat than regular flour you would make bread out of.
| Quote: | | Cake flour is a finely milled flour made from soft wheat. It has very low gluten content, making it suitable for soft-textured cakes and cookies. The higher gluten content of other flours would make the cakes tough. |
Because it is lower in protein (Gluten) than regular flour, it may be easier to convert to GF. If it were me, I would try the following flour mix out:
2 cups rice flour (extra finely ground - I use brown rice flour)
2/3 cup potato starch
1/3 cup tapioca flour
You will also need to add Xanthan gum at 1 tsp per cup of flour.
As with all GF conversions, you just have to try it and see if it works. I looked up the recipe and it has a crapload of eggs, butter and heavy cream. You are probably tasting that more than the flour in the recipe. I agree with you - since it has so little flour, it is a good candidate for conversion.
Let us know if you decide to try it and how it turns out.
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Oh! I'll have to try that one.
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