My cake recipe calls for 2 cups flour. How much cake flour shoud I substitute for the 2 cups flour?!
AND use 2
Answers: tell everyone to leave the kitchen
AND use 2
Does the recipe also call for baking soda and baking powder? If so, use the two cups of cake flour but only half of the baking powder and baking soda that it asks for since there is already some in the cake flour. However, if you do a straight substitute and make no other changes to the recipe, this should be fine too. Your cake will just raise nice and high.
Cake flour is finer than regular flour so add a tablespoon more.
I would think 2 cups for 2 cups
The instructions should be on the side or back of the box, but generally - 1 cup of cake flour if the same as a cup of all purpose flour minus about 1 tablespoon of flour. The cake flour is the same as if you took all purpose flour and sifted it 3 or 4 times to make it very fine and smooth - that is the only difference. It just saves you the time of sifting it yourself. So the all purpose flour wouldn't lose that much in the sifting process. If you have a regular recipe that calls for regular flour - just measure out the same and remove 1 tablespoon of the cake flour you are substituting for the regular flour for each cup you use.