3 Baking Basics ~ Quick Room Temp Eggs ~ How To Measure Flour ~ Make Cake Flour ~ Noreen's Kitchen

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Hi everyone welcome back to my kitchen today, we're gonna focus on three baking basics that I know are gonna help you out
We're gonna share with you how to bring eggs to room temperature quickly for when you need them in a recipe now
We're gonna show you how to properly measure
All-purpose flour into a measuring cup you might not be doing it the way you think is right
And then we're gonna show you how you can make your own cake flour at home using two simple ingredients
That I know you already have on your pantry shelf let's go see how these all come together
Today we're gonna cover three quick baking tips that maybe you don't know but maybe you do
But in any case they're a good reminder
I'm gonna be making a recipe that requires my eggs to be at room temperature
But because I want to make it a little more quickly than waiting for the eggs to actually come to room temperature
Because I forgot to take them out and a lot of times this happens
It's always better to use room-temperature eggs for the recipe
I'm making it's really important because I'm gonna be making a sponge cake the way that you bring your eggs to room temperature quickly is
By putting them in a vessel and pouring warm water over them not hot and then you just wait about 15 minutes
And they'll be room temperature for you
How easy was that okay the next baking basic tip that I'm gonna give you is how to?
Properly measure your flour if you are opening up your bag of flour
Scooping your cup down in there that is not how you properly measure flour because do you know?
That when you do that you can actually be measuring out a cup and a half flour instead of a cup of flour
So that when your bread comes out dense too heavy or not as delicious as you'd like
That would be the reason you're actually adding too much flour at one time and the proper way to measure flour is if you have
Your bag or in my case. I have a jar here
You're going to want to spoon the flour gently into your cup
And then the other option is to do the scoop and shake method where you will scoop the flour and then dump it back
Into the bag and then scoop out what you've already fluffed you want to basically
Fluff the flour up then scoop it and then you want to sweep, it across
The top just like that and that is how you measure a perfect cup of flour
The third and final baking basic that I'm gonna share with you today is
how to create your own cake flour do you have recipes that call for cake flour and you're like oh, please
Does it really matter it really does matter?
cake flour is lower in gluten it gives your cakes a
Nicer finer crumb it also gives your cakes a loft that you're not going to get with using all-purpose flour
You can go ahead and use all-purpose flour
But your recipe is not going to come out as good as it could have you used cake flour now cake flour can be
Sometimes hard to find it can be
Sometimes a little more than you want to spend on a box of flour so I'm gonna show you how you can make your own
Because you have what you need in your kitchen to make cake flour already you're gonna start off with one cup
This is a ratio for one cup so for one cup of cake cake flour you're gonna need one cup of all-purpose flour
Measured properly like we just showed you you're going to remove two tablespoons of the flour from here
You're going to replace the flour with cornstarch
So you're going to put two tablespoons of cornstarch into your flour mixture
And then you're going to take your whisk or you're gonna put it through a sifter
You're going to whisk very very well if you want you can sift this several times through
Just a regular sieve
Or if you have like one of those old-fashioned flour sifter --zz you couldn't do it a couple of times through there
But I'm gonna be using this in a recipe right away, so I'm gonna be able to use this with no problem
Now you can make this in a big batch
You can store it in an airtight container or like in a two quart mason jar and keep it in your pantry
I don't personally use cake flour very often
But I do when I make cupcakes and I do want to make sponge cakes especially
Because when you make a sponge cake cake flour it is
Definitely an important thing to use that is how you make proper cake flour at home using two ingredients
And you didn't have to go out and buy something special
Three baking basics that I know you're gonna use maybe you know them
Maybe it didn't if you didn't I hope you learned something and I hope it's helpful if you already did know it
But you forgot. I hope this was a gentle
and a good refresher for your mind we went over how to
Bring eggs to room temperature quickly for when you need them in a recipe now
But you don't want to wait a couple of hours for that to happen
we showed you how to properly measure flour into a measuring cup because
You might actually be measuring too much, and not even know it
And then the last thing we shared with you was how to make your own cake flour at home using two simple ingredients
All-purpose flour and corn starch, that's all it is so I hope this was a fun video
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3 Baking Basics ~ Quick Room Temp Eggs ~ How To Measure Flour ~ Make Cake Flour ~ Noreen's Kitchen

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