The flour has a reaction to the other ingreedients and causes the cake to rise.
No you use self rasing flour in cakes
When you are baking cakes and pastries which are cream based then its must to use refined flour
white and yellow
sugar or manely flour
cakes cookies batters coatings thickening agent
There are many powders to make cakes but the most used is probably flour
So the cakes rise. If you used plain flour, the cakes wouldn't rise and they would be flat!
To make them rise and not be flat.
Funnel cakes are commonly made with all purpose flour.
Maize meal is basically what we call "cornmeal" in the US. It is used for a number of recipes, but it cannot be substituted for flour in cakes. Cakes have to baked with flour to achieve a light, tender crumb, but you can use cornmeal for making sweet corn muffins.
because the flour is the main ingredient for sponge cakes. The sponge cake is thought to be one of the first of the non-yeasted cakes, that's why flour is needed. you can also use a small amount of baking powder too.
yes