Generally, all-purpose flour is good. You can also use whole wheat -or multigrain flour if you wish.
You can substitute cake flour for all purpose flour in any carrot cake recipe, but a carrot cake is so heavy just because of the carrots, cake flour won't give you any advantages.
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no you cant
There are cake flours, otherwise all-purpose and unbleached flour is great to use.
That depends on what kind of cake your baking. . .
Whole meal can be used in cake baking. But it produces a heaver, less tender cake than white cake flour.
because in keeps the wet ingredient together.....
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.
the best substitute for cake flour is 2 cups minus 2tablespoons flour plus 2 tbs cornstarch.
With most flours if it doesn't specifically say "cake flour" on the package, then it is not the same as cake flour. But you can substitute plain (not self rising) flour for cake flour. For each cup of cake flour called for in the recipe, use one cup minus two tablespoons plain flour, and sift it at least twice (after measuring). White Lily says you can substitute their flour for "cake flour" without making any changes, and it does not need to be sifted. For more information on White Lily Flour see the related link below.
No, cake flour does not have as much gluten in it which makes it more tender.
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.
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 :)