Clive's Tips - Tip #3

So it has been a while - but Clive has been one very busy deer. You know, sending out his Christmas cards (for Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen - the whole gang), wrapping up presents, making a pudding for Christmas day - all that fun stuff. But now he is back with another tip for you all!

And this is a good one, have you ever come across a recipe that calls for cake flour? I mean, really, who ever has cake flour on hand? I know I certainly don't, and I also don't like forking out extra cash for a special flour that I barely use.

So what can you do instead? Well did you know that...

1 cup of cake flour = (1 cup of plain flour - 2 tablespoons) + 2 tablespoons of corn flour

Or in plain english - for each cup of cake flour that you require take one cup of plain (all-purpose) flour, remove 2 tablespoons of the flour and replace it with 2 tablespoons of corn flour (or corn starch).

Clive's Tips - Tip #1

Have you all met Clive? Clive is really the brains behind The Red Deer, in fact he is the red deer. Clive loves cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts and tofu burgers. He also likes going to discos and roller skating. But most importantly Clive is an expert baker and he has decided to start a new segment on The Red Deer to share his expert baking tips.

So may I present to you the first of many tips from Clive the red deer...

Tip #1

Break your eggs on a flat surface (such as your counter top) for a cleaner break. This way you are less likely to obliterate the egg shell and end up with pieces of shell floating around in the egg white.