You only need two common ingredients—all-purpose flour and cornstarch—to make a homemade cake flour substitute. Sifting them together is key. Delicate baked goods meant to have an extraordinary light texture like angel food cake and white cake should ideally use real cake flour. If you're in a pinch and don't have cake flour for other recipes, use this substitute.
Recipe by Sally on August 24, 2019
Prep time: PT2M
Total time: PT2M
Rating
4.8 stars ( reviews)
Keywords
cake flour
Ingredients
14 Tablespoons (110g) all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)*
2 Tablespoons (16g) cornstarch
Categories
Baking
Cuisine
American
Steps
Sift flour and cornstarch together in a large bowl. Repeat so the mixture is sifted twice. Sifting not only mixes the two ingredients together appropriately, it aerates the mixture so the consistency is similar to real cake flour.
Measure (spoon & level) 1 cup from this mixture. You’ll have about 1 cup anyway, but sometimes sifting can produce more volume since it’s adding air.
Now you have 1 cup of cake flour that you can use in any recipes requiring cake flour. If the recipe requires more than 1 cup cake flour, you can do this process in bulk, but I find it’s better to make each cup of cake flour separately.
Reviews
Jillian on 2025-11-09 (5 stars): Thank you for sharing!! I did this and then used your white cake recipe with butter cream frosting and it was so good!! Thank you for sharing!!
Jillian on 2025-11-09 (5 stars): Thank you for sharing!! I did this and then used your white cake recipe with butter cream frosting and it was so good!! Thank you for sharing!!
Carolyn Shealy Freligh on 2025-12-23 (5 stars): I used this recipe for lemon meringue pie and it worked beautifully! Thank you!
