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Wheat flour is the most common flour used in Western Culture for cake baking because it is the traditional grain that has been raised in Europe for many centuries. Fine wheat flour produces a fine, tender, delicate "crumb" (the interior of the cake) that is desired in Western cuisine. But other flours are used in various types of cake, including corn flour, oat flour, barley, spelt and other grains. Other grains also are used in cakes that need to be gluten-free for health reasons.
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â 13y agoFlour is the basis of nearly all cake recipes. It produces the mass, volume and structure of the cake (and bread and other baked goods) to which other ingredients are added. In specific "flourless" cake recipes, the mass, volume and structure is based on cocoa or chocolate, ground nuts and/or eggs.
The leavening (baking powder and/or baking soda) and egg whites make a cake rise.
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Why do you put SR flour in cakes?
So the cakes rise. If you used plain flour, the cakes wouldn't rise and they would be flat!
How much flour will i need to make 36 cakes?
I have no idea
Why put flour in batter?
Flour, like yeast or starch, is used for thickening as well as rising in breads, cakes, etc.
Do you use rice flour in cooking cakes?
No you use self rasing flour in cakes
Why does flour need to be in sponge cake?
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.
Can brodie flour be used for cake flour?
Brodie makes a self-rising flour specifically for cakes and pastries. The major difference between all-purpose flour and cake and pastry flour is that one is finer and because you do not need the same amount of gluten in cakes it can produce a finer lighter cake. Good luck!
What is normal flour good for?
You can use it for baking mostly cookies cakes. Not really bread though you need self raising flour for that!!! Oh and yeast!
Can you substitute unbleached flour for all purpose flour in cakes?
yes
What can you make with flour butter eggs and sugar?
Butter, flour, sugar, and eggs are all ingredients in cakes and funnel cakes
What is a fine powder when baking cakes?
It's called Cake Flour, it is a very fine sifted cake flour that makes cakes very light.
What ingredients in hot cakes?
Hot cakes will typically have milk in them. Hot cakes will also have flour and salt as ingredients for example.
What does cornstarch do to a cake?
Cornstarch makes cakes lighter and more moist. Since cornstarch absorbs more liquid than flour does you only need half the amount of cornstarch as flour in a recipe. It works best in sponge type cakes which have no butter in the batter.
