Best flour for baking cakes???

[chris.g]

As some of you know, I baked a cherry cake yesterday......
Well the thing is, it wasn't the lightest of things....infact hubby joked he would take it to work with him (he's a bricklayer!!)
I was just wondering if any of you knew which was the best flour to use to achieve the best cake??? It was only either Asda's or Morrison's own brand self-raising I used....so not suprising really......[:(]

[Skippy]

Sorry, I can't help you there - I haven't baked a cake since I did home ec at school! I do seem to remember seeing some McDougalls (or something like that) in my mum's cupboard.

[plasticdaft]

I find the best flour for baking cakes is the stuff they use








at the bakers!!!!

[nomoredosh]

Be-Ro is definitely the best one in my opinion! i still use a be-ro cookbook for all my cakes that I bake, when I am in the mood. Which isn't very often I hasten to add!!!! LOL[:)]

[moretolife]

apparently its not the flour that makes the cakes light..its the "beating"..its a light hand.!!! but then who am i to say..i havent baked a cake from scratch in 40 years.!!!

[nomoredosh]

Just been on the be-ro website and it has baking disaster remedies on there. Might be worth a look, i has loads of recipes as well!

[chris.g]

TOL, I used an electric whisk to get plenty of air into it, it was the right creamy colour, then I folded in the flour(sifted) and it still came out like a 1990's mobile phone!!!! lol
Oh, and I used the Bero book(not the flour though)....guess I'm no Mrs Kipling!! haha

[Wizzard]

I bake cakes ... and I don't worry about the brand of flour. Unless its got lumps of grit in it (this has happened to me once lol). However, I find the best type of flour to be self raising unless recipe states otherwise. I find wholemeal flour to be too heavy and so called cake flour to be too dry. Hope this helps ... let me know if you need any receeps [:D][:D]

[kallis3]

My hubby bakes cakes, and he uses whatever flour is in the recipe. They turn out pretty good as well.

[angelrainbow]

I like to buy the organic flour milled at the windmill a few miles from me..but under the new penny pinching regime I guess it will be good old Tesco Value flour

[kallis3]

We (the royal we - hubby does the baking!) buy Asda Smart Price, it's as good as anything and the cakes taste good.