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Flour Power

Flour is the main ingredient for baking a cake. So, every baker should focus on flour. Which type of flour can be used or used. Without flour, bakers can not bake any type of perfect and desired cakes. So, flour contains or different types of flours should be very fresh and proper to use. There are many types of flours bakers can take instead and use while baking. Actually, bakers take all-purpose flour, cake flour, rice flour with baking.

From many flours, Cake Flour is the baker’s best choice. It is an ear of soft wheat and it contains 6% to 8% protein. So, it’s baked healthy and good cakes. Bakers can bake a pound cake, sponge cake, or fruit cake using this flour with a tender crumb. But, it has lower protein content than all-purpose flour. But it is finer, softer, and lighter than all-purpose flour. And that’s why the baker’s choice is cake flour. It is easily mixed up with different flavors so bakers can bake a super delicious cake by taste and look too. Cake flour produces less gluten than all-purpose flour.

All-purpose flour is a harder flour. But it contains 10% to 12% protein. It produces more gluten so it is not that much healthier that’s why generally bakers used cake flour than all-purpose flour.

Bakers have also used both flours in one cake. Because of this uneven ratio or discrepancy, bakers use a bit more cake flour to make an accurate substitution or portion for all-purpose flour. In that case, bakers could add an extra 2 tbsp cake flour per cup to make equal the quantity of 1 cup all-purpose flour.

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