cake flour


noun
  1. finely ground wheat flour.

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How to use cake flour in a sentence

  • For the best results when baking a cake, you need to use cake flour, a finely milled and typically bleached variety of flour made from soft winter wheat.

  • With a lower content of gluten-producing proteins than in all-purpose flour—around 7 percent versus 10 to 12 percent—cake flour yields baked goods with a fine, soft texture.

  • That'll save the batter-cake flour for the pie-crust and some of the lard and butter too.

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