All-purpose Flour/Self-rising Flour/Cake Flour

 

• Self-rising flour is all-purpose flour with baking powder and salt added. 

To make your own, all you have to do is combine 1 cup of all-purpose flour with 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

• To substitute self-rising for all-purpose flour, look for recipes that use baking powder: about ½ teaspoon per cup of flour, minimum. Self-rising flour will work just fine in recipes using about 1/2 teaspoon (and up to 1 teaspoon*) baking powder per cup of flour.

• For every cup of cake flour called for in a recipe, measure out 1 level cup all-purpose flour. Remove 2 tablespoons flour from that measurement. (Return those 2 tablespoons to the bag of flour, you don't need them.) Add 2 tablespoons cornstarch to the (1 cup minus 2 tablespoons) measured flour.

• One option for softer, more delicate cookies is substituting cake flour for all-purpose flour. Cake flour has less protein than all-purpose flour, so it does create more delicate textures. You can use it, but it might make some cookies a little crumbly since it doesn't give as much structure as the all-purpose.