Flour Substitutions You have a recipe for a delicious cake that uses cake flour, but all you have on hand is all-purpose flour and you just can't go to the store and buy cake flour. What do you do? Or perhaps you have a member in your family diagnosed with Celiac disease, which means she can't eat wheat gluten anymore. What do you do? Quit baking cakes? Or maybe you want to get more whole grains into your diet, so you decide to banish all white flour and white flour products from your kitchen. But your ten year old REALLY wants a cake for her birthday, what do you do? The answer is: make substitutions! While I won't claim that all your recipes will come out just like they used to I will tell you that you can make delicious baked goods by modifying your recipes and using different kinds of flours. In this article I will give you the basic formulas for the flour substitutions I have been asked about the most. Unfortunately, that does not include gluten free changes...
