Ive never done a cake from another flour than Presto, well where I live now, I cant find presto, so i bought Swans and Gold medal...

Im not sure of how to bake a cake with this two because my recipe is for presto all purpose flour, and swans is cake flour and gold medal is self-rising!!!

What kind of flour do you use, if you use one of these please pass me a recipe im in neeeeeed!!!!!!
Which one is better???
Helppppp im frustated!!!

If your recipe calls for all-purpose, don't use the self-rising. You need Gold Medal (or another brand) that is all-purpose (only). Cake flour is for a recipe that specifies cake flour (not all-purpose). Best of luck!

When making scratch cakes I always use the Pillsbury cake flour (though I'd use any cake flour, this is just all I have available). I use it even when they call for all purpose. Cake flour is meant for cakes and the proteins in it are made to make cakes. You never know what's in the all purpose.

im still confused!!! At the swans website i found a conversion thing from all-purpose to cake flour!

Ok, Presto is an all purpose flour, and I love it but here I dont find it here, my recipe calls for presto all purpose flour.

Do you guys think I shoul try the conversion thing????

i use softasilk!

You can substitute cake flour for all purpose, but do NOT substitute the self-rising.

So I would use the Swans and use the conversion recommendations from their website.

You can probably use any brand of all purpose flour, even though the recipe calls for a specific brand. Just make sure it IS all purpose, and not self rising or cake flour. The brand name probably doesn't matter much. I use pillsbury recipes that say pillsbury all purpose, but I use whatever all purpose I have on hand it turns out fine.

Hope this helps.


Holly

I too use Pillsbury Softasilk cake flour. But I've heard Swan's is good too.