Homemade Cake Flour

I find myself researching baking substitues for loads of reasons. I'll swap out oil in favor of no sugar added apple sauce to cut back on the fat. I'll go for heavy cream or half and half instead of whole mix to make my scones all the more rich and decadent. Heck, I'll even swap out avocado for eggs! Today, I found myself needing to find a baking substitute because I forgot to purchase cake flour at the grocery store yesterday.

My cart had 30 pounds of flour, 10 pounds of sugar, and two pounds of salted butter, but I completely spaced the cake flour for some delicious chocolate chip cookies I recently saw with the New York times.

So, here's a random tip for you: if you have a recipe that calls for cake flour and you, too, do not have any, mix together 1/4 cup cornstarch with 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour. Mix well and there you have it...DIY cake flour. I sifted my ingredients in a bowl, stirred them well, and I keep it in a glass jar.

Wait, cake flour in cookies? Why?????????? I really don't know why. It's just what the recipe called for. But don't worry, I'll look into it and report back as to why cake flour is a multi-purpose flour.

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