10 Cake Flour Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

Put that bag of cake flour you have lying around to good use with these deliciously sweet recipes.

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Updated January 30, 2025
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Vicky Wasik

Remember when you bought that bag of cake flour that one time, for that one recipe? And how it turned out great? But then you never found another use for that bag of cake flour again? Except for making the same recipe? Do you see where we're going here?

Cake flour has a lower protein content, which helps give baked goods a soft, fluffy texture, and can be used for a number of baking applications. To help you use up that lingering bag of specialized flour and diversify your arsenal of sweets, we've put together 10 recipes—from all kinds of cake to pancakes and alfajores—that lean on cake flour.

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