How to Make Cake Flour and Self Raising Flour at Home

Learn to make homemade cake flour and self raising flour. It’s very easy and cheaper than buying it at stores. You only need few ingredients.

Most recipes for baked goods call for all purpose flour, however once in a while you might come across a recipe you want to try that calls for self rising flour or cake flour.  Can you just go ahead and use your all purpose flour anyway?  No, it’s best not to if you want your recipe to turn out well.  There is a difference between the two.

The difference between self rising flour and the all purpose flour is that the self rising product already has some baking powder and salt added to it and cake flour has cornflour. This is what makes it “self rising” without having to add any other ingredients. But rather than pay the higher price for the self rising flour and cake flour that you might not use very often, you can quickly and simply make your own self rising flour and cake flour.

Let's quickly check out the ingredients for these two flour

Ingredients for cake flour

1 cup flour (minus 2 tbsp )
2 tbsp of corn flour

Ingredients for self raising flour


1 cup of flour/maida
1+1/2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of salt

For step by step instructions do check out the video