You know what is not easy? Taking pictures of flour.
I know, I know….food blogger problems…
There have always been a lot of recipes that I pass up on making because I reallllly don’t like to use white flour. It’s a weird thing. I don’t freak out if someone else makes something with it, but I just really prefer to use whole grains, especially when I’m creating things for Ari’s Menu.
Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but it always seems silly to buy an entire container of something I know I’ll only use once. In fact, I only really buy two flours: whole wheat pastry, and white whole wheat, but you know what? I would package this up and buy it in a heart beat!
I’ve never seen whole wheat cake flour in the grocery store, so I decided to get creative, and make my own. There are a lot of tutorials out there that teach you how to make your own cake flour, so I used to same concept, and just used whole wheat pastry in place of all purpose. You could probably do the same thing with white whole wheat flour as well, I’d imagine, and even plain old wheat, although it would probably bake a bit denser.
As soon as I made this, I used it to whip up a batch of cookies. Very special cookies. They came out amazing, so I’d say the flour was a big success! They baked up fluffy, and cake-like (which is perfect for these cookies). Creating the cake flour took me all of an extra 2 minutes in the process, so I would highly recommend giving it a try next time you find a recipe that calls for cake flour–here’s an easy way to healthy it up in minutes.
DIY Whole Wheat Cake Flour
yield 1 cup
- 1 cup minus 2 tbsp whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
Directions:
- Measure out 1 level cup of whole wheat cake flour and transfer to a medium mixing bowl. Remove 2 tbsp of flour and replace with 2 tbsp cornstarch. Lightly whisk together. Use immediately, or store in an airtight container just as you would any other flour.
This may win the prize for the most useful post ever. I NEVER have cake flour on hand. Had no idea it’s that simple to DIY.
Happy New Year!
Why haven’t I thought of this? Great idea! I need to try this in the future!
This post sounds just absurd to me 😀 Im from northen Europe and we dont even have the cake flour in the store, so its kind of logical that you use baking powder in a recipe. But I understand how this could be useful in some parts of the world..
I am using whole wheat cake flour along with all purpose flour. Do I need baking powder, if so, how much?
Fay
I always bake my cakes using whole wheat flour. Never thought of this idea. I need to know one thing. Is whole wheat “pastry” flour different from our normal day-to-day whole wheat flour?
Thank you for showing me how to do this! I also prefer to use whole wheat flour and was looking at a pound cake recipe today, just knowing that the whole wheat flour would make it SOOO dense. I didn’t even realize cake flour had baking powder added to it! So basically you changed my life today. Well done! 🙂
and by baking powder I mean cornstarch! Goodness gracious! 🙂
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