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While most baking recipes call for all-purpose flour or sometimes cake flour, you’ll occasionally see self-rising flour listed as an ingredient. There’s a reason for this: Self-rising flour acts ...

The drawback to using self-rising flour is that it can be harder to gauge how much leavening agent to add to your batter. Occasionally, you may need to add more, but if you use too much, your cakes ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's no need to buy a bag of this specialty flour. Make it at home. Getty Images Self-rising flour always seems to be that one ...

Self-rising flour is all-purpose flour combined with baking powder and salt. Unlike all-purpose flour, self-rising flour has a leavening agent that causes baked goods to rise. Self-rising flour is ...

Victorian sponges are easy to make, so they turn out light and fluffy, as long as you avoid two simple ingredient mistakes ...