the best substitute for cake flour is 2 cups minus 2tablespoons flour plus 2 tbs cornstarch.
Generally, all-purpose flour is good. You can also use whole wheat -or multigrain flour if you wish.
There are cake flours, otherwise all-purpose and unbleached flour is great to use.
No, cake flour does not have as much gluten in it which makes it more tender.
That depends on what kind of cake your baking. . .
you need all-purpose flour to make a cake. - not bread flour- that is only for bread!
You still use a cup of cake flour for 1 cup regular flour.
A cake mix has sugar, baking powder, salt and flavoring already in it. That would make it very hard to use in replace of just the flour in another recipe. If you have a cake mix, make that cake, following the instructions on the package. Although, you can modify most cake mixes by adding nuts, flavorings, fruit, etc. to it.
For a perfect sponge cake use half flour and half corn flour.
you use self-raising flour so that when the cake is cooking it rises and it adds to the mixture you use too make a cake :)
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Yes; To substitute cake flour with ap flour use 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons cake flour for every 1 cup of ap flour