Hiya,

I've seen a recipe on here for the above flavour cake but I was just wondering (and I might sound a bit thick) but what is cake flour is it plain or self raising, not sure if you use a different name in America as we do in England,

Anyways any help would really be appreciated.

Paula
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Also sorry to be a pain but is the dry strawberry gelatin just the powered jelly that you usually add water to. And is the sugar caster sugar, really sorry for all the questions but I just want to make sure, Im pretty new to all this.

Thisll be the first time I use cup measurements as usually I weigh everything, is there a general rule to what cups usually weight of ingredients?

To make 1 cup of cake flour out of regular flour:

2 tbsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. baking powder

Fill rest of cup with all purpose flour and sift.

Hope this helps.

Sorry, did't receive your 2nd post until after I had sent mine, lol. I looked up the recipe, and it looks like the dry strawberry gelatin (what we call Jell-0) IS the powdered stuff you add water to, and sugar caster is regular white sugar.To measure, I would just make sure you use the "nesting" measuring cups (they're for dry goods) and not the glass measuring cup/bowl, which is used for liquids. Hope this helps. BTW, let me know how te cake tastes, please. My DD loves strawberry!

Caster sugar is the same as superfine sugar here in the USA.

Cake flour does not have baking powder in it, self-rising flour does.

True cake flour cannot be made. It is milled from a certain type of wheat.

There is a recipe that can be used, called Cake Flour Substitute:

Blend, thoroughly, 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour with 1/4 cup cornstarch. Measure and use as directed in recipe.

Theresa

Hi! I'm British and I make this cake A LOT - it is fantabulous! Use the Rowntrees/own brand jelly granules - but be aware of the weights of the little packs! Don't use the sugar free, it doesn't work as well! Cake flour is substituted fine for self-raising flour, or use the flour made specifically for making sponges - that works really well (I think it's from Homepride). I fill this cake with strawberry Angel Delight, made with slightly less milk than usual (so it's nice and thick), then decorate the whole thing in strawberry flavoured buttercream (normal buttercream with supercook strawberry flavouring and about 1/4 cup pureed strawberries) - I can't explain in words just how fabulous this cake is!

P.S. I use caster sugar too, I think it's our traditional way, I would never dream of using granulated sugar, and never do when I'm following American recipes! I've never had a disaster yet using it!

Thank you so much for your advice, now I understand completely, Im gonna have a go over the weekend and the angel delight bit sounds good, definitely gonna give that a try. Didnt know supercook did a strawberry flavour, Ive looked in Tescos and not seen it, Ill have to hunt around over the weekend.

Thanks again.

Paula
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Asda must be where I got mine from - we only shop in Asda or Tesco when we come to the UK! Good luck!