Where to find cake flour in the UK?

The answer is very easy: in your kitchen! 

There are a lot of amazing American recipes on the Internet but some of them call for cake flour. You can't buy cake flour in the UK, however, you can make your own.

Here at Pondtail Bakery, we celebrated the Queen's 90th birthday yesterday with some delicious orange cupcakes.

I used self-raising flour, plain flour and corn flour to make the cupcake mix. To be precise I used 150g self-raising flour, 80g plain flour and 45g corn flour. This means that I substituted about one-third of the plain flour with corn flour. In other words, 16% of all flours was corn flour. 

When I use corn flour in my cakes I substitute about one-fifth of the flour with corn flour. So, I add 20g of corn flour to every 105g of plain flour. Hope that makes sense.

Why do I do it? Because it makes my cakes a lot lighter, fluffier, a lot less dense. Corn flour has a lower protein content than plain flour, so by adding corn flour to my flour mix I remove some of the gluten.

I hope this was helpful.

Happy baking!

Pondtail Bakery