The other day, a girl came into the store where I work looking for items to make decorated cupcakes from a book she had. I was able to help her find most of the things she needed. She then asked "Do you sell cupcake flour?" Really?

I told her I had never heard of such a thing, and maybe they meant "cake flour". She said, no.. cupcake flour, and showed me the recipe in the book. Sure enough, there it was in black and white.

I asked her which cupcake book it was. "Martha Stewart Cupcakes"

Has anyone else run across this? IS there such a thing and I am just in the dark on this one?

I've never heard of it. I checked all three of my sources that have lists of types of flour, and none of them state that name.

If anyone has a copy of that book, and can post the name of the recipe and the page it's on, I will gladly send an e-mail to her website and ask for clarification on this.

Theresa

I've never heard of cupcake flour either. I just googled it and the only thing that came up when I searched was cake flour.

I just did a Google search for "cupcake flour" and everything that came up referred to cake flour. I would suggest e-mailing [email protected] for them to clarify

Leave it to Martha (who I admire as a business person!) to come up with a "snooty one of a kind flour" for CUPCAKES!

Im only guessing here but I think its safe to assume they meant 2/3 of a CUP, cake flour...... just like it would say 1/3 cup water, or 1/2 cup powdered sugar ...... they probably meant 2/3 cup, cake flour. Now I havent seen the book. So I dont know if it said, 2/3 cup cupcake flour. In that sense I had NO idea they made a special flour for cupcakes... Hope this helps! Happy baking.

It's probably "2/3 cup cake flour." Maybe a typo.

I wish I could see the book, but there are no previews of it and I'll never buy a Martha book for recipes.

Next time I'm at the bookstore, I'm going to check.

You don't need to buy Martha's cupcake book. Just go to her website, they are all posted there.

I did some research and got her book from the library and then did a google search for the recipes. I checked I believe the first 20 before I got bored and quit, but I found all of them online. They were either from her site or other blogs who made the cupcakes.

Oh, I don't want to look at them to bake them. I just want to see if they all have that typo that prompted someone to ask for "cupcake flour" at the store.

I didn't see online that the recipes asked for "2/3 cupcake flour."

I'm looking at my copy of MS Cupcakes. I see no typo, nor "cupcake flour" though it's possible I missed something. However, on p.277 the recipe for Almond-Hazelnut Cupcakes does call for "3/4 cup cake flour."

Once again Im sure they mean 3/4 cup..... cake flour.

i did! i was searching for a recipe for green tea cake roll and dicided 2 make it so i went to buy the grociries for it.when i was writing a shopping list, i went pass cup cake flour so i searched for that. and i saw this.

I found this recipe that also calls for cupcake flour. I am as "confuddled"  as you lot.

recipe adapted from Back in the Day Bakery

http://cookiesandcups.com/my-favorite-vanilla-cupcakes

I plan on making them with cake flour.  Will let you know.

AMalson, that recipe is calling for 1 3/4 cup OF cake flour, not cupcake flour. :)

This what I found when I googled it.  Leave it to GOOGLE to find an answer.

(1 cup AP flour - 2 Tablespoons AP flour + 2 Tablespoons corn starch = 1 cup cake flour) Be sure to sift the flour to distribute the corn starch well before using it in your cake batter. The primary difference between cake flour and all-purpose (AP) flour is the protein content (which becomes gluten)

Ai used that once and my vanilla cake tasted like corn