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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:21 pm
by 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......[:(]
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:26 pm
by 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.
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:28 pm
by plasticdaft
I find the best flour for baking cakes is the stuff they use
at the bakers!!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:51 pm
by 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[:)]
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:04 pm
by 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.!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:06 pm
by 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!
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:17 pm
by 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
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:16 pm
by 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]
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:19 pm
by kallis3
My hubby bakes cakes, and he uses whatever flour is in the recipe. They turn out pretty good as well.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:31 pm
by 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
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:40 pm
by kallis3
We (the royal we - hubby does the baking!) buy Asda Smart Price, it's as good as anything and the cakes taste good.